Outdoor briefs

Park talk

Rebecca Lawrence, a re-vegetation crew leader in Glacier National Park, will give a free talk on “Whitebark pine, the oldest residents in the Park” at the Montana House in Apgar Village on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m., hosted by Montana House and the Glacier National Park Fund. Lawrence has worked in the restoration field in the West for 16 years, including eight seasons in Glacier Park, where she headed up the whitebark pine restoration efforts for the past five years. She received her master’s in restoration ecology from the University of Montana-Missoula in 2001. She was a Fulbright scholar in Austria from 2002 to 2003, where she studied alpine restoration techniques. For more information or to reserve seats, call 888-5393.

Film festival

The Flathead/Kootenai Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association will present its annual film festival at the O’Shaughnessy, in Whitefish, on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. and at the Teakettle Community Building, in Columbia Falls, on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. Eleven selections from more than 110 films in the 11th annual South Yuba River Citizens League Wild & Scenic Film Festival will be presented. The films focus on water and wildland conservation. Door prizes donated from local businesses will be given away. Food, beer, wine and soda will be available for purchase. The Montana Wilderness Association is the oldest statewide nonprofit conservation organization. Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information, visit online at www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.

Wilderness fundraiser

The Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation will hold its annual Voices of the Wilderness fundraiser event at the Alpine Ballroom, 333 Main Street, in Kalispell, on Friday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. Guest speaker Doug Chadwick will talk about “Grizzly Bears of the Gobi Desert.” There will be a silent art auction. Tickets are $25 available online at www.bmwf.org or by calling 387-3808. Raffle tickets for a five night, guided horse packing trip in the wilderness donated by Swan Mountain Outfitters are $10 apiece. Proceeds will go to supporting Foundation trail projects. Patagonia recently pledged to support the Foundation’s trail maintenance work by sponsoring one trail project each year for the next five years.