Outdoor news
<p>Kurt Fredenberg, of Columbia Falls, a student at Montana State University, bagged this moose on Oct. 30 in the Graves Creek drainage near Eureka. He shot the moose with a .30-06 at 75 yards. The moose was estimated to be eight years old and weighed about 700 pounds Its rack measured 52 inches wide. Kurt said he has applied for a moose tag for the past eight years.</p>
Banff Film Festival
The Flathead Nordic Backcountry Ski Patrol will bring the Banff Mountain Film Festival to the Flathead again as a fundraiser, with movies about exotic locations and high-end adventure. The films will be shown in the Flathead High School auditorium on Monday and Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 16, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at Rocky Mountain Outfitter and Sportsman Ski Haus, in Kalispell, and at Sportsmen, The White Room and Runner-Up Sports, in Whitefish.
Whitefish film festival
A mountain film festival in Whitefish will help trail projects by First Best Place. The third annual Whitefish Mountain Films, a celebration of locally and nationally accomplished skiers, mountaineers and filmmakers, will take place at the O'Shaughnessy Center on Sunday, Nov. 13, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. and films starting at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. Raffle tickets are $1 apiece. All proceeds from the raffle and food and drink purchases will benefit First Best Place trail projects. For more information, visit online at www.BlueBirdGuides.com or www.facebook.com/bluebirdguides.
Birding talk
Flathead Audubon will sponsor a free talk on "Birding in the Falklands, South Georgia and Antaractic Peninsula" by Pete Smith in The Summit's Community Room, in Kalispell, on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. Smith spent 19 days in January 2011 on a small expedition ship at sea exploring some of the remotest places in the world. His photographs include penguin colonies, albatrosses, seabirds endemic to the Scotia Sea, as well as glaciers and Zodiac cruising among icebergs. Antarctica is the sixth continent on which he has birded. Africa is his next destination. He is a pathologist at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.
Online auction
The Glacier Institute is holding an online auction to support youth education at its Big Creek Outdoor Education Center up the North Fork. The auction at www.charityauctionstoday.com/glacier25 started Nov. 1 and will continue until Sunday, Nov. 27, at 5 p.m. Bidding for gifts, paintings and Glacier National Park experiences starts at $1. More than 24,000 Flathead Valley elementary school children have visited the institute's Discovery School three-day immersion learning program at the Big Creek Outdoor Education Center. For more information, visit online at www.glacierinstitute.org or call 755-1211.
Boating class
Fish, Wildlife and Parks will hold a free boating education class at the FWP offices, 490 North Meridian Road, in Kalispell, on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 p.m. The class will include an overview of boating safety equipment requirements and the rules of safe operation. Participants must pre-register and read the boating manual prior to the class. Montana law requires youths 13 and 14 years of age to pass a boating safety course in order to operate a motorboat or personal watercraft without an adult on board. Students must be at least 12 years old to register. A parent or guardian must accompany students under 16. To register, call 752-5501 or go to the FWP offices.