Tag: loon

  • Feature Friday – TJ Fallon

    Feature Friday – TJ Fallon

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    Jake Bramante

    One of the greatest things about my project has been the people that I’ve met. TJ followed me on my journey in 2011 and contacted me about hitting the trail together. We ended up finally hiking together on Loon Day last year where we ended up seeing 8 loons (6 all together in Trout Lake). This…

  • First Trillium of the Year

    First Trillium of the Year

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    Jake Bramante

    I went out yesterday to look for Common Loon nests with some fine folks and came across my first trillium of the year. For me, this is one of my happy indicators of Spring which is followed by baby animals, more wildflowers, roads and trails opening up and eventually berries. I’ll blog about the Loon…

  • High Country Survey – Citizen Science

    High Country Survey – Citizen Science

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    Jake Bramante

    I’ve blogged about Citizen Science before and covered my first real field outing for Loon Day here and decided to show another Citizen Science project called the “High Country Survey”. In a nutshell, Citizen Science is funded by the Glacier National Park Fund and provides a little bit of classroom training, then unleashes volunteers (wannabe…

  • Loon Day

    Loon Day

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    Jake Bramante

    The weekend of July 14th-15th is Loon Day where we go out and try and get as many common loons counted as possible with a bunch of us citizen scientists so we can better understand the population and what’s going on with them! We chose to do the Trout Lake area. We found some loons!!…