Naturalist Field Experience
Events
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Naturalist Field Day: Explore Primm Meadow
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Wednesday, October 2 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Location: Meet at the Montana Natural History Center. We'll travel to Primm Meadow in the MNHC bus. Feel the majesty of an old-growth, open stand of ponderosa pines as you explore the history and magnificent ecology of Primm Meadow. This park-like grove has been carefully utilized and […]
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Protecting Pollinators and Native Plants – Lunch & Learn Climate Solutions Week Program
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Thursday, October 3, 2024 Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m. Location: Montana Natural History Center Cost: FREE Join the Montana Natural History Center and Climate Smart Missoula for a Lunch & Learn program, Protecting Pollinators and Native Plants, during Climate Solutions Week 2024! Our communities thrive with the biodiversity of native plants. Insects, birds, and mammals have evolved to rely […]
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Native Plant Garden Immersion – Fall Session
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Saturday, October 19 Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m. Location: Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden Cost: $15 MNHC members, $20 non-members Feel the land transition into autumn. Allow your senses, rather than your thoughts, to notice how nature transitions into a season of endings and renewal. You may have visited the Native Plant Garden, but have you experienced […]
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Nature Journal Book Binding
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Saturday, November 16 Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. Location: Montana Natural History Center Cost: $20 MNHC members, $25 non-members REGISTER HERE! Create a blank nature journal with simple Japanese-style stitch binding. Nature Journals record our observations, reflections, and natural phenomena. And they are works of art in their own right. Accentuate this role of 'journal as art piece' by choosing […]
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Native Plant Garden Immersion – Winter Session
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Sunday, December 22 Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m. Location: Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden Cost: $15 MNHC members, $20 non-members Resting. Pausing. Stillness. Immerse your senses into nature’s capacity for restoration and renewal. Notice what winter feels, smells, sounds, and looks like at the Native Plant Garden. You may have visited the Native Plant Garden, but have you […]
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Wild Soups & Stocks, Teas, & Broths
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Saturday, March 1 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Location: Montana Natural History Center Cost: $50 for MNHC members, $55 for non-members (some scholarships available – call 406.327.0405 for more information) REGISTER HERE! “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” --Hippocrates Herbal medicine doesn't just come in tinctures and salves. Come explore how to add wild […]
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“Booming” to Lee Metcalf NWR with Birder/Author Sneed Collard
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Saturday, March 29 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Location: Meet at MNHC to bus or carpool with MNHC staff at 9:00 a.m. or at Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge at 10:00 a.m. Cost: $50 for MNHC members, $55 for non-members (some scholarships available - call 406.327.0405 for more information) REGISTER HERE Enjoy an early spring birding […]
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Birding for Beginners! in Greenough Park
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Tuesday, May 20 Time: 8:15-10:15 a.m. Location: Meet at Greenough Park picnic shelter parking lot (the second one you come to on Monroe St.) REGISTER HERE! Become attuned to the bird life all around you. Through birding tips and bird stories - some wild, some comical, some incredible - you will enter the feathered […]
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Get into Rockhounding!
Montana Natural History CenterDate: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m. Location: Montana Natural History Center Cost: Free for members, $5 individual/$10 family non-members Get into rockhounding this summer! REGISTER HERE! In this show-and-tell program we will share the best resources to use to find amazing rocks, safety tips, rules and regulations, the clubs to join for group […]
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Bug Photography!
Maclay Flat Nature Trail Forest Rd 19155, Missoula, MT, United StatesDate: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Location: Meet at Sam Braxton trail head- Pattee Canyon Cost: $25/$20 MNHC members REGISTER HERE. Bug out with your camera and capture amazing close-up shots of tiny creatures! Kristi DuBois, retired FWP non-game biologist and avid insect photographer, will provide instruction and guidance during […]
$20 – $25
