Glacier speaker series on YouTube

Glacier Park Volunteer Associates 2022 Speakers Series YouTube event began Jan. 24.

Presentations will also be available Feb. 28 and March 28. The YouTube viewing link for each presentation will be posted on the website gnpva.org.

Jan. 24 — “Wild River Pioneers - Two Women of Glacier” by John Fraley.

While the event is over, it can still be watched online.

Feb. 28 — “Tapping Local Energy to Accomplish Wildlife Research, Monitoring, and Inventory Goals in Glacier National Park” by Lisa Bate.

Bate works as a wildlife biologist for Glacier National Park, specializing in birds and bats.

She oversees research, inventory and monitoring projects including harlequin ducks, songbirds, raptor nesting and migration, black swifts, Clark’s nutcrackers and bats. She also oversees wildlife and compliance monitoring for projects like the reconstruction of the Going-to-the-Sun and Many Glacier roads, and has worked as a private research wildlife biologist.

Glacier Park has rich and diverse habitats, which in turn supports hundreds of wildlife species; some are rare or listed as species of concern. Park biologists and a large group of volunteers work to accomplish wildlife research, monitoring, and inventory goals.

March 28 — “Mad Bears” by John Waller. Waller is the Carnivore Program manager in Glacier National Park. The increase of day hikers and backpackers on the trails has left the bears with less places to roam undisturbed.

Waller will discuss and review how the park’s grizzly and black bear populations are adapting to the large number of visitors and what behaviors the bears are exhibiting.