Get Lost Trail Race 2025! Registration is Open!
The date is set, the campground reserved, and registration is open! We can’t wait to see you at the 7th Annual Get Lost Trail Race!
You can find all the details about the weekend, including the schedule of events and a map of the race routes, and complete online registration at: https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=124378 or scan the QR code in the poster below. When you sign up online you guarantee that you will receive a post-race lunch, and you SERIOUSLY don’t want to miss out on the lunch.
Interested in volunteering? Send a quick message to getlost@okanoganhighlands.org. We’d love to have your help!
Highland Wonders Field Trip: Mushroom Mosey, Fall Edition!
Back for a new season!
After leading a fascinating introduction to mushroom ecology, characteristics and foraging practices this spring, Elliot Phillips and Amber Kauffman are excited to come back for a second fungi-focused forest frolic, featuring the fungi of the Fall!
Curious about the location? So are we! All we know at this time is that we will be in the Okanogan Highlands. The details will be revealed by the mushrooms themselves the week of the event.
If you are interested in learning more, please send us a quick email at info@okanoganhighlands.org and we will keep you updated (via email) with all the details as the date nears.
Highland Wonders Field Trips: April-June, 2024
We are so excited to explore the Okanogan Highlands, learning about the marvels of local species and ecosystems! We hope you can join one or more of these field trips. Please RSVP to info@okanoganhighlands.org to let us know you are coming, and we will send along ALL the details about the day.
Our Native Bees (and Other Pollinators) with David Jennings
Event Details:
- Friday, March 29, 2024 at 6:30 pm
- Dinner, benefitting the CCC from 5-6:15 pm $15/plate
- Community Cultural Center of Tonasket, 411 Western Ave. Tonasket, WA
- Presentation is Free to the Public
Event Description:
Most of our native bees are so small and fast-moving that we often don’t notice them, or if we do, we don’t recognize them as bees. Estimates are that we have upwards of 650 species of native bees here in Washington State, but only about 500 have been identified to species. Yet bees are a keystone species: without them, whole ecosystems falter. David will provide an overview of pollination, explain why native bees are vital, and share identification tips for common bumble bees. Join in a discussion on how we can meaningfully support our local pollinators.
David Jennings has an academic background in wildlife ecology and conservation from the University of Georgia and a MPH in Biostatistics from the University of Oklahoma. He is a former WA State Fish and Wildlife Commissioner. David is the current President of the Washington Native Bee Society, and a past president of the Washington Butterfly Association and the Gifford Pinchot Task Force. Currently, he also serves on Black Hills Audubon Society’s conservation committee.
If you missed this event, you can catch it on OHA’s Youtube Channel! Click here to go straight to David’s March, 2024 presentation.
Selected Slides featuring Local Bumblebees from David Jennings’ Talk, March, 2024
Questions? Send Jen an email: jen@okaonganhighlands.org
