DATE

EVENT

BOARD MEETING

1912 Center, Fiske Room, Moscow. Open to all Audubon members.

PROGRAM MEETING

Phil Hough and Jon Isacoff will team up for this exciting presentation. Phil will provide an overview of the wilderness benefits and potential for this wonderful corner of Idaho and Montana. Jon will share his Scotchmans' birding experiences. Come enjoy the dramatic beauty of these wild lands and wild birds, through compelling slides and stories.

Phil Hough, Chairman of the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, is a past president of the American Long Distance Hikers West Association (ALDHA-WEST), a past president of the Kinnikinnick Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society, and the former chair of the Bonner County Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force. His love of the wilderness has led him to thru hike the entire Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest trail (twice) and the northern half of the Continental Divide Trail, as well as to paddle the length of the Yukon River. Phil has been awarded both the Idaho Conservation League's Conservationist of the Year and the Montana Wilderness Associations Brass Lantern Volunteer Awards.

Jon Isacoff is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University. From 2005 to 2007, Jon's Service-Learning course on Ecology and Environmentalism at GU worked in partnership with the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. Jon is Field Trip Chair and Lifetime Member of the Spokane Audubon Society and he served as Co-Chair of the Hiking Committee of the Spokane Mountaineers from 2006-2008. Jon is the Washington Year List Project Compiler for Spokane County and leads field trips for Spokane and Coeur D'Alene Audubon Society's as well as the Washington Ornithological Society.

Everyone is welcome.