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Taking care of our health can be a tough task. We’re constantly reminded to eat healthy, go to the gym, de-stress, turn off our phones from time-to-time and the list goes on. But the biggest positive impact on our health is the environment. Studies show that being in nature reduces anger, anxiety and stress. Spending time in nature reduces blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension and the production of stress hormones. The annual Meadowlark Festival offers a healthy annual weekend that takes participants of all ages outdoors to participate in interactive, multi-disciplinary events that expose them to the spectacular natural environment of the Okanagan Similkameen. From Canada’s unique desert environment in the south, to the alpine meadows high above the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys, the Festival connects people with nature and all its benefits, while engaging and inspiring them to protect the unique habitats and species of this region and indeed our planet. Please take a look at the tours we are offering this year, and plan now to join us for the 2019 Festival.

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Meadowlark Nature Festival OSCA Board of Directors Coordinator: Jayme Friedt Janet Willson, OSCA Chair Tel 250.492.5275 www.osca.org email [email protected] Pat Evans, Treasurer www.meadowlarkfestival.ca Mortgage Specialist, Mailing Address TD Canada Trust 113 – 437 Martin Street, Box 349 Lia McKinnon Penticton BC V2A 5L1 Biologist, Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of BC Ticket Sales Location and Okanagan Similkameen Stewardship Society Tickets go on sale starting Saturday, Sharon Mansiere April 6 at 10 am online and in person Biology Professor, Okanagan College from 10 am to noon at Room 2, Ellen Simmons Penticton Community Centre, Ecology/Biology Instructor, En’owkin Centre 325 Power Street. Tanya Luszcz Following that tickets will be available to Program Manager, Partners in Flight BC/Yukon Great Basin purchase in person by appointment. Judy Brock, OSCA Founding Member Retired Teacher Call Jayme at 250-492-5275. Jo-Anne Birch Retired business owner

3 ESSENTIAL FESTIVAL INFORMATION What to Bring Please be prepared for all sorts of weather – hot, sunny, How to Purchase Tickets windy, cold and rain too! Dress in layers and bring all- weather clothing, sunscreen, a sun hat, sturdy hiking Online and in person ticket sales start footwear, a snack and at least 1 litre of water for all tours Saturday, April 6th at 10 am. and events. For longer walks and hikes you will need at least 2 litres of water, as well as snacks and a bagged lunch (if Online tickets can be purchased at our not provided). Cameras, binoculars and plant and bird field website meadowlarkfestival.ca using any guides are optional but add to your enjoyment. major credit card via PayPal. Level of Difficulty In person ticket sales take place on Before buying your tickets, please be sure to check the Saturday April 6th from 10 am to noon at Level of Difficulty rating for each tour to ensure the tour is the Penticton Community Centre, Room Two, 325 Power Street, Penticton. Ticket appropriate for your physical abilities. sales will be processed on a “first-come, Please leave Rover at Home! first-served” basis. Please have your Pets are not permitted on any Meadowlark Nature Festival tour(s) selected and prioritized before Tours, with the exception of service dogs. Please do not bring you arrive in order to facilitate quick your pets to the Festival or leave them in parked cars. People processing. You can pay by cash, cheque who are accompanied by animals will not be permitted to or credit card. Meadowlark Nature participate in tours and events. Festival merchandise and raffle tickets will also be on sale. After April 6th in- Meeting your Tour Leader and Group person ticket sales can be arranged with Once you have purchase your tickets, you will receive via Festival Coordinator Jayme Friedt at email, information detailing your tour, meeting time and 250-492-5275. location. Please review your tour information in advance to Important Note: Tickets must be familiarize yourself with where you are going. Tours leave on purchased in advance of all events unless time, so don’t be late! noted. We cannot reserve tickets without Waivers full payment. Signed waivers are required to take part in Meadowlark Tickets are non-refundable. events. A link to a PDF of the waiver will accompany your emailed tickets. Please print a waiver for each person in your party, have each of them read and sign the waiver and bring it with you to your tour. Carpool Donations Many of our tours set out from a central meeting place via carpools. If you are being shuttled via carpool it is common practice and good karma to offer your driver a small donation (e.g. $5) to help pay for gas. If you intend to join a carpool tour please be sure you have some extra cash on hand for this purpose. Rain or Shine Meadowlark events take place rain or shine. Meadowlark tickets are non-refundable.

4 2019 MEADOWLARK FEATURED ARTIST Alex Fong Meadowlark Nature Festival is pleased to announce Alex Fong as our 2019 Featured Artist. We are proud to showcase his piece entitled, One moon... in our 2019 promotional material including our poster, advertisements, t-shirts and on the cover of our program guide. BIOGRAPHY Born in Vancouver, BC in 1956, Alex Fong’s interest in art began at a young age, but it wasn’t until studying interior design in his 20s that he thought seriously of a career as an artist. It was then that he discovered the medium of watercolour and the freedom of colour and expression that matched his vision of the world. Paying homage to his cultural heritage, Alex’s early work reflects a traditional oriental technique. As his talents flourished, he developed a style of his own which has now become his hallmark. His paintings are a kaleidoscope of light and colour – a bouquet of wonder and whimsy. The sense of delight that accompanies them draws the viewer in for a closer look. His translucent, impressionistic paintings are distinguished by a parade of coloured flecks that he calls “confetti” which represent his celebration of life. The result is an exquisite balance of spontaneity and grace, reflecting a delightfully fresh and youthful outlook. “A child views the world with optimism and wonder. That is what I hope to accomplish with my art,” says Alex. “Each day, I look forward to creating something new and wonderful. I paint to make people feel good, and put a little joy into their lives. Joy, splendour and whimsy, sprinkled with a few unusual surprises. EVENTS An exhibition of Alex’s work entitled Water... including his Meadowlark piece Signed limited edition One moon... will be on display at the Penticton Art Gallery from May 17 to June 16. Join canvas prints of Alex for an opening night reception at the Gallery on Friday, May 17th at 7 pm. Alex’s 2019 Meadowlark Saturday, May 18th from 1 to 2 pm at the Penticton Art Gallery, Alex will be giving a artwork, One Moon... special talk on his exhibition Water... See Tour 52 for details. are available for $225. Contact the Festival Sunday, May 19th from 11 am to 2 pm Alex will be giving a fun and informal painting workshop, The Meadowlark Deconstructed, at the Shatford Centre. See Tour 66 for details. office at 250-492-5275.

In addition to the wonderful glow of giving to a great cause, here’s a list of some other benefits you receive when you join our Adopt-A-Tour program: Two (2) complimentary tickets to the tour you adopt. Adopt-A-Tour Name recognition on the Meadowlark website on the Each year Meadowlark Nature Festival takes pride in tour page of the tour you adopt. presenting over 70 tours led by talented and knowledgeable Tax receipt for your donation. Tax receipts will be mailed tour leaders. For a small honorarium our tour leaders pour after the Festival. their hearts and souls into their presentations out of sheer love, passion and dedication to conservation and our How does it work? Simply go to our website and click on natural environment. Along with tour leader fees, there Adopt-A-Tour. Complete the order form and choose the are many other programming related expenses such as tour you wish to adopt. If the tour is not on the list, it venue rentals, liability insurance, permits, transportation means it has already been adopted. Once your order form expenses and signage costs. In total, programming has been processed you will receive an email with your expenses amount to just over $25,000 each year. complimentary tickets to bring with you to the tour you’ve adopted. The Adopt-A-Tour program helps us offset a portion of the costs of our tours and provides a chance for you, our It’s easy, it’s rewarding and it’s a wonderful way to support dedicated Meadowlarkers, to support your favourite. the Festival!! 5 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

THURSDAY MAY 16TH Tour 2 Tour 4 Tour 6 40 2-3 20 ALL 50 1 18 12+ 30 0 15 10+ Tour 1 $ + $ + $ + $ 30 0-1 18 12+ 5 Riparian Songbird Research Chickadee Tea Sunset Photography $ CT + Experience 1 pm to 4 pm at the Little Tunnel Sage and Sparrow Conservation 5:30 am to 8:30 am Spend some time in the garden at Three Gates 6 pm to 8 pm Area Tour They say the early bird gets the worm, so Farm for an old fashioned English afternoon Join Caillum Smith from Preserved Light the successful bird researcher wakes up tea with a selection of delicious sandwiches, Photography for a photo workshop at 9 am to 3:30 pm home-made scones, strawberries and The unmistakable scent of sagebrush. The even earlier! Start your 2019 Meadowlark Naramata’s Little Tunnel during the sunset Festival with En’owkin Centre conservation/ whipped cream. Enjoy watching chickadees, “Golden Hour”. Learn how to fearlessly sweet songs of sparrows. A stunning vista that hummingbirds, nuthatches and other forest stretches as far as the eye can see. Join staff from TEK staff, UBC Okanagan PhD candidate, point your camera into the sun and capture Kristen Mancuso, along with Environment birds as they visit nearby feeders. You might be amazing photographs that illustrate the the Nature Conservancy of Canada at the Sage lucky and see the resident Great Horned Owls and Sparrow Conservation Area. Located south- and Climate Change Canada researchers at moment as you remember it, or perhaps the ECOmmunity Place Locatee Lands in that have nested for many years in a large even better! Whether you’re just starting west of Osoyoos, these lands sit in the heart of Douglas Fir at the garden’s edge. Following a crucial migration corridor for species moving Penticton. Join in on a rare opportunity to to use your camera or are a serious photo participate in breeding bird research focused tea take a nature stroll with Jim Ginns to learn enthusiast, the workshop is tailored to between the desert areas of the western United about native plants growing on this diverse States and the dry grasslands of interior BC. Join on Gray Catbirds and Endangered Yellow- ensure a progressive and hands on-learning breasted Chats. Learn what’s involved in property or stay at the house to take photos experience at one of the most scenic us to experience a landscape of rolling hills of and enjoy watching the activity at the feeders. sagebrush hosting an abundance of bird species banding territorial birds, identifying individual locations in the South Okanagan. Price includes: Afternoon Tea including at least nine species of sparrow. colour-banded birds, mapping songbird Location: Naramata Please be prepared for an adventure on rough territories, and tracking migratory songbirds to Location: Kaleden Meeting Place: Manitou Park, roads. You will need a 4x4 vehicle that you are their wintering grounds. Portable washrooms Meeting Place: Three Gates Farm, Old Main Road, Naramata comfortable driving through some sections of on site. 168 White Lake Road Transportation: Carpool road that are narrow and overgrown with brush. Location: Penticton Transportation: None Additional items to bring: Camera, Tripod, This tour is brought to you in partnership with Meeting Place: ECOmmunity Place Locatee Water, Hat, running/hiking shoes Nature Conservancy of Canada. Lands North Gate (at Doc’s Golf Centre Tour 5 Location: Osoyoos Parking Lot - Hwy #97 and bottom of 30 2 25 12+ $5 Tour 7 Meeting Place: Buy Low Foods parking lot, West Bench Hill Road) $ + CT 10 0 45 ALL 9129 Main Street, Osoyoos Transportation: None $ Transportation: Carpool (If you do not own Woodpeckers, Wildlife Trees + a 4x4 vehicle we may be able to arrange a Tour 3 wand Indigenous Knowledge Go Batty in Peachland! ride with another participant. Please contact 30 3 20 12+ 1 pm to 4 pm 6 pm to 9:30 pm the Festival office at 250-492-5275.) $ + Discover the beauty of Vaseux Lake and the 6 pm – 7 pm Kids Crafts, Peachland Historic Additional items to bring: Bagged lunch surrounding area with bird conservationist School, 5684 Beach Avenue After the Fire and biologist Tanya Luszcz and Kaeloni Jack 7 pm Bat House Interpretive Trail Walk 8:30 am to 12:30 pm environmental resource technology student Meet at Beach Avenue and Todd Road under LEGEND Wildflower photographer and former biology and member of Penticton Indian Band. Search the Bat House interpretive sign $ teacher Harold Baumbrough along with local for Lewis’s Woodpeckers and enjoy a light Price 5 Child’s for a guided tour for all ages and abilities. Walk $ CT Ticket biologist Lisa Scott lead a hike into a grassland hike in the area of the 2003 wildfire. Learn along a gentle forest trail with bat biologist and dry coniferous forest that burned in 2018 about some of the traditional ways that were Tanya Luszcz and learn about Okanagan bats, Level of Difficulty as part of the Eneas Wildfire in Summerland. practiced on the land by the Syilx (Okanagan their habitat, food and characteristics along Learn about the role of fire and witness the people) and the importance of wildlife trees, with many interactive stories. The group will Level 0~Access for all. Flat terrain. incredible renewal and recovery of the plant woodpeckers and a variety of other species. then move to Peachland Historic School to Level 1~Easy walking. All/mostly community. Prepare to be captivated by This is a richly diverse environment home view live footage of five cameras strategically level paths. breathtaking views of the valley as you look to White-throated Swifts, Canyon Wrens, placed in the attic. Watch and count the across the lake at Okanagan Mountain Park California Bighorn Sheep and Western Yellow- Level 2~Paths can be narrow with Yumas and Little brown Bats wake up and exit which burned in 2003. Watch for a variety bellied Racer. some uneven terrain. the building for nightly foraging. of raptors, songbirds and woodpeckers, as Location: Vaseux Lake Location: Peachland Level 3~Obstacles in paths and/ you learn about the importance of fire and or uneven terrain. Steeper Meeting Place: Vaseux Lake Interpretative Meeting Location: 6 pm Kids Craft, the invasive plants that pose a threat to this Kiosk grade requiring agility. beautiful landscape. Peachland Historic School, Level 4~Very steep, insecure Transportation: None 5684 Beach Avenue; 7 pm Beach Avenue and Location: Wild Horse Mountain, Todd Road, beside Todd’s RV & Camping footing. Long hike. Good Summerland physical condition needed. Transportation: none Meeting Place: Summerland Dairy Queen Maximum Group Size parking lot Transportation: Carpool + Age Permitted

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Tour 6 Tour 8 Tour 10 30 0 15 10+ FREE 1 100 ALL 30 3 20 8+ $ + $ + $ + Sunset Photography An Astronomical Wonder Naramata and at the Little Tunnel 9 pm to 11 pm Chute Creek Hike 6 pm to 8 pm Join members of The Royal Astronomical 9 am to 2 pm Join Caillum Smith from Preserved Light Society of Canada Okanagan Centre for a Explore the shaded, moist and impressive Photography for a photo workshop at superb night of viewing celestial objects. RASC Naramata Creek canyon with naturalists Jim Naramata’s Little Tunnel during the sunset will have telescopes set up at the Dominion and Anne Ginns. Then drive to Indian Rock “Golden Hour”. Learn how to fearlessly Radio Astrophysical Observatory and will and hike to view the roaring Chute Creek point your camera into the sun and capture provide information about the objects you are waterfall and investigate the vegetation of amazing photographs that illustrate the viewing. The evening includes a presentation a hot, dry southwest facing slope. Walk still moment as you remember it, or perhaps so the event will take place regardless of the higher to a magnificent bluff to seek birds and even better! Whether you’re just starting weather. rock loving plants. Lunch while enjoying a to use your camera or are a serious photo Location: White Lake fabulous panoramic lake view. enthusiast, the workshop is tailored to Meeting Place: Dominion Radio Location: Naramata ensure a progressive and hands on-learning Astrophysical Observatory - White Lake Road Meeting Place: Parking lot on the west experience at one of the most scenic Transportation: none side of Naramata Road where KVR trail and locations in the South Okanagan. Poplar Grove Road intersect. Location: Naramata FRIDAY MAY 17TH Transportation: Carpool Meeting Place: Manitou Park, Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch Old Main Road, Naramata Tour 9 Transportation: Carpool Additional items to bring: Camera, Tripod, 100 3 11 12+ Water, Hat, running/hiking shoes $ + Tour 7 KVR Birding Cycling Tour with Dick Cannings 10 0 45 ALL $ 6:30 am to 2 pm + Ride with writer, biologist, birder and Go Batty in Peachland! South Okanagan-West Kootenay MP, Dick 6 pm to 9:30 pm Cannings, and history buff John Shaske, on a 6 pm – 7 pm Kids Crafts, Peachland Historic scenic cycling tour along the KVR Trail. You School, 5684 Beach Avenue and your bike will be shuttled to the Chute Lake Lodge, recently purchased by Hoodoo 7 pm Bat House Interpretive Trail Walk Adventure Company where you’ll enjoy a Meet at Beach Avenue and Todd Road under delicious breakfast. From there you’ll begin the Bat House interpretive sign a gentle descent down the 2.2% gradient. for a guided tour for all ages and abilities. Walk Stop, look and listen for a variety of birds on along a gentle forest trail with bat biologist route and take in an array of flora and fauna Tanya Luszcz and learn about Okanagan bats, as you travel through a subalpine forest into their habitat, food and characteristics along spectacular Ponderosa pines. Learn about with many interactive stories. The group will the building of the KVR and visit relics of then move to Peachland Historic School to the Railway including Adra Tunnel and Rock view live footage of five cameras strategically Ovens. The 30km cycle to Naramata will end placed in the attic. Watch and count the back at Wharf Park. Yumas and Little brown Bats wake up and exit Price includes: Shuttle to Chute Lake Lodge the building for nightly foraging. and breakfast Location: Peachland Location: Naramata Meeting Location: 6 pm Kids Craft, Meeting Place: Wharf Park, Naramata Peachland Historic School, 5684 Beach Avenue; 7 pm Beach Avenue and Transportation: Shuttle to Chute Lake Lodge Todd Road, beside Todd’s RV & Camping Additional items to bring: Mountain Bike Transportation: none (wide, firm tires/good order), Helmet, Warm Gloves

7 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tour 11 Tour 13 Tour 15 Tour 17 30 3 20 8+ 40 3 20 12+ 30 1 15 10+ 30 0 20 ALL $ + $ + $ + $ + Mahoney Lake to Burrowing Owl Field Trip Nature Photography Workshop Sustainable Buildings White Lake Ramble 8 am to 1 pm 9 am to 11 am and Landscapes 9 am to 2 pm Come along with field staff of the Burrowing Explore nature’s beauty through the lens 9 am to noon Mahoney Lake is a glorious place to explore Owl Conservation Society of BC (BOCSBC) of your camera with award-winning How can we build, and garden, and still leave in the spring with a profusion of flowers and to view an active field release site south of photographer and visual storyteller Caillum space for nature? Join local architect Chris birds. Margaret Holm leads this 8 km spring Osoyoos. There you will be shown the work Smith, from Preserved Light Photography. Allen, and landscape designer Diane Ransom, ramble where the group will stop frequently that has been done by the society over the last Learn about lighting, composition and camera as they tour two custom designed homes in to explore features of the grassland and 25 years to reintroduce Burrowing Owls back settings on a shoot atop the scenic Munson Naramata that manage to weave architecture Ponderosa forest setting. Both Mahoney Lake to the wild of BC. At this time of year there Mountain. Whether your equipment is a and gardens into the natural landscape. The and White Lake are interesting saline lakes will be nesting owls and you may get a chance disposable camera, camera phone or high tour will begin in the village of Naramata, at with their own unique properties. Margaret to see some eggs and maybe even some tech DSLR, this will be a morning of great a house built in 2014 adjacent to Naramata will show the group cell phone apps that young burrowing owls. During the tour you’ll photographic teachings and challenges. All Creek. The house divides the lot into a wild increase enjoyment and identification of local break for lunch and take part in a Q&A with skill levels welcome! zone and food forest against the creek, and flora and birds. With thirty years’ experience BOCSBC’s Executive Director Lauren Meads Location: Penticton a cultivated zone which engages with the in parks, museums and local conservation, and biologist Lia McKinnon. This is a unique Meeting Place: Munson Mountain street life of the village. The group will then Margaret will touch on conservation, history opportunity to view active conservation work Parking Lot carpool up the hill to Smethurst Road, where in the Okanagan. and wildlife research topics. Transportation: None a new house is being built in a secluded glade Location: Osoyoos overlooking the Naramata Creek Canyon. Location: White Lake Additional items to bring: Camera, Tripod Meeting Place: Green Gate Parking Lot at Meeting Place: Buy Low Foods parking lot, (optional) Location: Naramata White Lake, Fairview White Lake Road 9129 Main Street, Osoyoos Meeting Place: 3469 8th Street, Naramata Transportation: Carpool Transportation: Carpool Tour 16 Transportation: Carpool Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch $ Additional items to bring: Plenty of water, 20 1 25 ALL 5 Tour 18 bagged lunch, snacks. Good solid footwear Tour 14 $ + CT is required. 30 2 25 ALL 20 1 20 12+ Vermilion Bluffs and Hoodoos $ + Tour 12 $ + 9 am to noon Join the Vermilion Forks Field Naturalists for Twin Lakes Wilderness 30 1 18 ALL Naramata History Walking Tour $ + coffee and muffins at Riverside Community Watershed and Wildlife Tour 9 am to 11 am Centre before taking an easy walk along 9 am to 1:30 pm Lehmann Springs Tour Local history buff Craig Henderson takes you the Kettle Valley Railbed. The walk will lead Twin Lakes historian, Coral Brown takes you 10 am to 2:30 pm on a stroll through the charming Naramata you to the spectacular Vermilion Bluffs and on this fascinating tour that follows the water Join staff from Nature Conservancy of Village. Learn about the settlement of the Hoodoos. There is plenty of bird life to see and the aquifer up into the watershed. See the Canada for a look at the Lehmann Springs village more than a century ago, and about along the way, including Harlequin ducks on relationship between surface and groundwater Conservation Area located near Bridesville. the colourful characters who have called this the Tulameen River and Lazuli Buntings. and view species at risk such as painted turtles View a spectacular stand of old-growth scenic village home. Price includes: Refreshments and rare wildflowers. Hear about the unusual western larches over 600 years old and other Location: Naramata Location: Princeton stand of large cedar trees and walk on some wildlife including the Williamson’s sapsucker, Meeting Place: Naramata Museum, Meeting Place: Riverside Community of the fur brigade trail as you learn of the red-tailed hawks and flickers living within 224 Robinson Avenue Centre, Princeton history and the balance between water and the Ponderosa pine, spruce and Douglas-fir life. There are many rare birds to see as well Transportation: None Transportation: Carpool forest. Natural springs bubble up from the such as Blue Herons, American Goldfinches, earth feeding into Nine Mile Creek providing Meadowlarks, Red-breasted Nuthatches, precious water for wildlife and fascination Lewis’s Woodpeckers, and a loon family for visitors. This tour is brought to you in Children’s Ticket Pricing among others. The tour ends on a viewing partnership with the Nature Conservancy of deck near a Bald Eagles Nest. You can chat Canada. In an effort to encourage families to attend the Festival and make it more and enjoy the aquifer water and snacks. Location: Bridesville (1/2 hour drive from affordable, we are pleased to offer child’s ticket pricing for several of our Price includes: Snacks and Refreshments Osoyoos; 1 ¼ hour drive from Penticton) tours. Bring your daughters, sons, nieces, nephews and grandchildren Location: Twin Lakes Meeting Place: Buy Low Foods parking lot, along with you to the Festival for only $5 on selected tours. Child tickets Meeting Place: Walmart Parking Lot 9129 Main Street, Osoyoos are applicable to anyone 18 years of age or under. See you all at the – south end near bus stop, Penticton Transportation: Carpool Festival! $ Transportation: Carpool Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch 5 Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch Children’s Tickets are indicated on applicable tours with CT

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Tour 17 Tour 19 30 0 20 ALL N/A 0 N/A 12+ $ + $ + Sustainable Buildings Sageland Heritage Connectivity and Landscapes with Jay Kehne 9 am to noon 1 pm to 3 pm How can we build, and garden, and still leave Jay Kehne lives and works out of Omak, space for nature? Join local architect Chris Washington for Conservation Northwest, Allen, and landscape designer Diane Ransom, an organization dedicated to protecting as they tour two custom designed homes in and connecting wildlife habitat. Join Jay to Naramata that manage to weave architecture hear about the Sagelands Heritage Program, and gardens into the natural landscape. The focusing on north south shrub-steppe habitat tour will begin in the village of Naramata, at connections from Oregon to Kelowna BC. Tour 21 a house built in 2014 adjacent to Naramata Backed by science, locally driven, and 20 2-3 30 ALL $5 Creek. The house divides the lot into a wild supported by a wide group of partners this effort $ CT zone and food forest against the creek, and will add momentum to protection of habitats + a cultivated zone which engages with the needed by many species of wildlife including, Indigenous Plant Propagation street life of the village. The group will then sage grouse, bighorn sheep, badgers, sharp- & Cottonwood Forest carpool up the hill to Smethurst Road, where tailed grouse, mule deer, pygmy rabbits and Restoration Ecology a new house is being built in a secluded glade short–eared owls. This event is brought to you overlooking the Naramata Creek Canyon. in partnership with Osoyoos Desert Centre. 1 pm to 4 pm Join En’owkin Centre conservation/TEK Location: Naramata Admission is by donation. staff and University of British Columbia – Location: Sonora Community Centre, Meeting Place: 3469 8th Street, Naramata Vancouver PhD candidate, Kasey Moran, at 8505 68 Ave, Osoyoos Transportation: Carpool the En’owkin Centre Greenhouse & Nursery Transportation: None Tour 18 to engage in propagation of a variety of Tour 20 Indigenous plants we are growing to support 30 2 25 ALL $5 restoration of local Cottonwood forests. Learn $ + CT 20 1 20 ALL in-depth about the wild and wonderful life $ + history and vital ecological connections of the Twin Lakes Wilderness amazing Black Cottonwood tree. Swan Lake Sanctuary Tour Watershed and Wildlife Tour Location: Penticton 1 pm to 4 pm 9 am to 1:30 pm Meeting Place: En’owkin Centre Twin Lakes historian, Coral Brown takes you Join the Vermilion Forks Field Naturalists for Greenhouse & Nursery – south parking lot on this fascinating tour that follows the water coffee and muffins at Riverside Community (154 En’owkin Trail, on the north side of and the aquifer up into the watershed. See the Centre before heading off for a birding trip to Green Mountain Road) Swan Lake. The lake is located in a ‘kettle’ - relationship between surface and groundwater Transportation: None and view species at risk such as painted turtles a deep depression created by glacial action about 12,000 years ago. The lake is surrounded Additional items to bring: binoculars; and rare wildflowers. Hear about the unusual spotting scope or camera (optional) stand of large cedar trees and walk on some by open rangeland and dotted with huge of the fur brigade trail as you learn of the ponderosa pine. The 57 hectares of undulating history and the balance between water and grassland are home to an abundance of native life. There are many rare birds to see as well flora and bird species such as pied-billed such as Blue Herons, American Goldfinches, grebes, ruddy ducks, Barrow’s goldeneye, Meadowlarks, Red-breasted Nuthatches, possibly a sora or a painted turtle. Lewis’s Woodpeckers, and a loon family Price includes: Refreshments among others. The tour ends on a viewing Location: Princeton deck near a Bald Eagles Nest. You can chat Meeting Place: Riverside Community and enjoy the aquifer water and snacks. Centre, Princeton Price includes: Snacks and Refreshments Transportation: Carpool Location: Twin Lakes Meeting Place: Walmart Parking Lot – south end near bus stop, Penticton Transportation: Carpool Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch

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Come join us we kick off the 2019 Tour 22 SATURDAY MAY 18TH Tour 23 20 1 25 6+ $5 Meadowlark Festival at our Birders, Tour 25 Burgers and Beer dinner and $ + CT Ginty’s Pond: A Wetland Wonder 150 3 20 16+ auction at the beautiful Penticton $ Golf and Country Club. Meet up 1 pm to 4 pm + with fellow Meadowlarkers, enjoy Explore this small wetland formerly known as Birds of the South Okanagan Cawston slough with Lee McFadyen. During a delicious meal including a burger, with Dick Cannings its glory days, Ginty’s Pond was a recreational 7 am to 2 pm hub to Cawstonites who enjoyed skating, fries, salad and a drink of your This is a unique opportunity to join Dick boating, fishing, wildlife watching and plain choice (one beer, house wine, or Cannings, noted author, birder and South old ‘mucking about’ on its shores. Today, Okanagan-West Kootenay MP, for a guided soft drink), listen to great live music diminished water levels have affected some birding tour of the South Okanagan. You will by the incomparable Ari Neufeld, recreational values, but the pond provides visit some of the best Okanagan birding areas habitat for numerous bird species, beaver, raise a toast to our Outstanding in Nature Award recipient Bryn White and and expect to see over 100 species! A delicious bats, turtles and amphibians. We will also picnic lunch will be provided as part of this bid on some spectacular silent and live auction items including weekend walk through some cottonwoods to the annual fundraising event for the Okanagan getaways, golf and wine packages and a signed limited edition canvas Similkameen River and may be lucky enough Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA). print of Alex Fong’s 2019 Meadowlark artwork One moon…. to see nesting Lewis’ Woodpecker. Poison Ivy is close by but avoidable. Price includes: bus tour and lunch Friday, May 17, 5 to 10 pm Location: Cawston Location: South Okanagan Tickets $30 Meeting Place: Cawston Hall, Main Street, Meeting Place: Penticton Trade and Cawston Convention Centre, 273 Power Street BRYN WHITE ARI NEUFELD Transportation: Carpool Transportation: Bus As Manager Ari Neufeld is Tour 24 Tour 26 of the South a self-made, 50 2 20 8+ Okanagan one-man band, 30 1 20 10+ $ $ + Similkameen playing guitar, + Conservation piano, banjo Wings on their Fingers Vaseux Lake Voyageur Program, Bryn while singing - Bats of the South Okanagan Canoe Tour and keeping time through an 7:30 pm to 10 pm 8:30 am to 1:30 pm White has been a valued and Paddle to the fascinating and secret places of amplified stompbox, with ethnic Bat biologist Tanya Luszcz takes you on a fun dedicated leader in conservation in and interesting evening of batting at Sun-Oka Vaseux Lake in a voyageur canoe with Selah the South Okanagan Similkameen. beads, nuts and bells strapped to Beach Provincial Park and introduces you to Outdoor Explorations. This area has well An extraordinary visionary, Bryn his body. His performance covers these amazing flying mammals. Your night earned the reputation of being one of the most a variety of genres from folk to begins with a slide show about the diversity biologically diverse regions in British Columbia has been instrumental in the and Canada. Osprey, eagles, orioles, bighorn success of a myriad of initiatives, pop, to new country, to rhythmic of bats in the Okanagan and beyond, the big threats facing their survival, and what we can sheep, and wildlife of all descriptions visit or including the Penticton and Ellis soul, and to rock - what he likes do to help them. Then, using a combination of make their home here. Learn about its unique Creek restoration projects, Keeping to coin as “Full Contact Folk”. simple and high-tech gear, you will become natural and cultural history by exploring the Nature in our Future biodiversity It’s a vibrant blend of beat, bat scientists and watch and listen to bats as lake and part of the endangered Okanagan they exit their maternity roosts for a night of River beneath magnificent McIntyre Bluff. An strategy and the South Okanagan melody and humor. optional hike on the west side of the lake will Prepare to be inspired! foraging. You will get to watch and hear these Conservation Fund. Yuma bats as they catch insects over the water. further enhance your appreciation of this rare gem. Please note: Hike is a Level 3 on the Level Location: Sun Oka Beach Provincial Park, of Difficulty scale. just south of Trout Creek on Hwy 97 Price includes: Canoes and Equipment What to Bring Meeting Place: Sun Oka Beach Provincial Location: Vaseux Lake Please be prepared for all sorts of weather – hot, sunny, windy, cold and Park parking lot Transportation: None Meeting Place: Vaseux Lake Wildlife rain too! Dress in layers and bring all-weather clothing, sunscreen, a sun hat, Centre sturdy hiking footwear, a snack and at least 1 litre of water for all tours and Additional items to bring: Flashlight/ Headlamp, Mosquito Repellent, Outdoor Transportation: None events. For longer walks and hikes you will need at least 2 litres of water, as Chair (optional), long pants and long-sleeved Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch well as snacks and a bagged lunch (if not provided). Cameras, binoculars and shirts/jackets plant and bird field guides are optional but add to your enjoyment.In the case of some tours, a note will be made for additional items to bring.

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SATURDAY MAY 18TH Tour 27 Tour 29 25 2-3 15 12+ 30 2-3 20 10+ $5 Tour 25 $ + $ + CT 150 3 20 16+ Trout Creek Ecological Reserve Scenic Canyon $ + 9 am to 2 pm Regional Park Hike Birds of the South Okanagan Join ecologist and writer Don Gayton on 9 am to 2 pm with Dick Cannings a leisurely tour of a hidden gem: the Trout Naturalist and avid hiker Craig Lewis along with 7 am to 2 pm Creek Ecological Reserve near Summerland. biologist and geologist Ian Walker take you on Eenjoy some great scenery while exploring This is a unique opportunity to join Dick a fascinating trek through Kelowna’s Scenic the dynamics of our native grasslands and Cannings, noted author, birder and South Canyon Park. View incredibly diverse geography dry forests. Trout Creek, one of the very first Okanagan-West Kootenay MP, for a guided as the Mission Creek canyon narrows, framed Ecological Reserves created in BC, is host to birding tour of the South Okanagan. You will by multi-layered vertical rock walls. Explore some 135 different plant species, as well as an visit some of the best Okanagan birding areas a variety of ecological zones as you descend extensive list of bird sightings. and expect to see over 100 species! A delicious from dry interior forest and grasses to cool picnic lunch will be provided as part of this Location: Trout Creek moist creek canyons and then on to dry semi- annual fundraising event for the Okanagan Meeting Place: Summerland Dairy Queen arid steppes that feature grasses, sagebrush and Similkameen Conservation Alliance (OSCA). Parking Lot, Hwy 97 and even antelope brush. A highlight of the tour is Price includes: bus tour and lunch Prairie Valley Road a spectacular view of Layer Cake Mountain. Transportation: Carpool Presented in conjunction with the Central Location: South Okanagan Okanagan Naturalists’ Club. Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch, Meeting Place: Penticton Trade and Location: Kelowna Convention Centre, 273 Power Street binoculars and a “sit-upon.” Boots and long pants are essential. Meeting Place: Scenic Canyon Field Road Transportation: Bus Parking lot off McCullough Road in Tour 26 Tour 28 East Kelowna 30 4 20 12+ Transportation: Carpool 50 2 20 8+ Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch $ + $ + Vaseux Lake Voyageur McIntyre Bluff / n’aylintn Hike Tour 30 Canoe Tour 9 am to 2 pm 25 3 20 12+ $5 Enjoy a tremendous view and learn about $ CT 8:30 am to 1:30 pm conservation holdings and a variety of flora + Paddle to the fascinating and secret places of and fauna as you hike to one of the most Okanagan Valley View Hike Vaseux Lake in a voyageur canoe with Selah spectacular settings in the Okanagan. Leading 9 am to 2 pm Outdoor Explorations. This area has well the tour to The Nature Trust of BC’s nʕaylintn/ Join outdoor enthusiast Sue Mavety from the earned the reputation of being one of the most McIntyre Bluff property is Nick Burdock, Penticton Adventurers Club for a moderately biologically diverse regions in British Columbia Okanagan Conservation Land Manager. strenuous hike offering probably the most famous and Canada. Osprey, eagles, orioles, bighorn This is a strenuous hike meant for physically view in the Okanagan Valley. Looking from sheep, and wildlife of all descriptions visit or fit people. This tour is brought to you in Allendale Ridge south across Blue Mountain make their home here. Learn about its unique partnership with The Nature Trust of British Vineyards to Vaseux Lake and McIntyre Bluff this natural and cultural history by exploring the Columbia. view has been seen in hundreds of magazines lake and part of the endangered Okanagan Location: OK Falls and TV. Sue will offer insight into the varied River beneath magnificent McIntyre Bluff. An spring flowers and wildlife - possibly even some optional hike on the west side of the lake will Meeting Place: OK Falls, IGA Parking Lot deer and Big Horn Sheep. further enhance your appreciation of this rare Transportation: Carpool gem. Please note: Hike is a Level 3 on the Level Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch Location: OK Falls of Difficulty scale. Meeting Place: OK Falls, IGA Parking Lot Price includes: Canoes and Equipment Transportation: Carpool Location: Vaseux Lake Additional items to bring: Plenty of water, Meeting Place: Vaseux Lake Wildlife snacks and bagged lunch, Trekking Poles/ Centre Walking Sticks Transportation: None Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch

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THURSDAY MAY 16 AFTERNOON EVENTS ALL DAY EVENTS Tour 19 - Sageland Heritage Proud sponsor Tour 1 - Sage and Sparrow Connectivity Conservation Area 1 to 3 pm , Osoyoos, By donation 9 am to 3:30 pm, Osoyoos, $30 Tour 20 - Swan Lake Sanctuary of the MORNING EVENTS 1 pm to 4 pm, Princeton, $20 Tour 2 - Riparian Songbird Research Tour 21 - Indigenous Plant Experience Propagation & Cottonwood Forest 5:30 am to 8:30 am, Penticton, $40 Restoration Ecology 2019 1 pm to 4 pm, Penticton, $20 Tour 3 - After the Fire 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, Summerland, Tour 22 - Ginty’s Pond: A Wetland $30 Wonder Meadowlark 1 pm to 4 pm, Cawston, $20 AFTERNOON EVENTS EVENING EVENTS Tour 4 - Chickadee Tea Festival 1 pm to 4 pm, Kaleden, $50 Tour 23 - Birders, Burgers and Beer Kick-Off Tour 5 - Woodpeckers, Wildlife Trees

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$1.43 + GST PENTICTONHERALD.CA SATURDAY MAY 18 SUNNY. H: 16, L: 1 FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019 Tour 6 - Sunset Photography at the JUSTICE TRANSPORTATION B.C. mayor Little Tunnel ALL DAY EVENTS Politicians push survey charged with sex 6 pm to 8 pm, Naramata, $30 Tour 25 - Birds of the South in bid to save 2 flights assault Offence alleged Okanagan with Dick Cannings MP says April 6 to have been Tour 7 - Go Batty in Peachland! cuts planned committed before by Air Canada accused became will inconvenience Port Moody mayor 6 pm to 9:30 pm, Peachland, $10 7 am to 2 pm, South Okanagan, $150 business travellers By The Canadian Press By JAMES MILLER PORT MOODY — The British Penticton Herald Columbia Prosecution Service says the mayor of Port Moody has ravellers at Penticton’s been charged airport on Thursday with sexual as- Tour 26 - Vaseux Lake Voyageur were surprised to be sault. Tour 8 - An Astronomical Wonder greeted in the lobby by The service T says in a state- their member of Parliament and two Valley mayors. ment that Robert But at 4:45 a.m., when every- Vagramov is al- one’s still half asleep and dying leged to have Canoe for that first cup of coffee, per- committed the 9 pm to 11 pm, White Lake, free Vagramov haps they didn’t notice who they assault in were speaking with. Coquitlam in 2015. In an effort to provide more sta- The service says special prose- tistical data to Air Canada — cutor Michael Klein was appoint- which will be eliminating its 8:30 am to 1:30 pm, Vaseux Lake, $50 ed in December to investigate the 6 a.m. departure and 11 a.m. ar- allegation because it was consid- rival flights, beginning April 6 — ered in the public interest to do /Penticton Herald politicians were handing passen- JAMES MILLER so. Area politicians were at Penticton Regional Airport early Thursday morning, encouraging passengers to FRIDAY MAY 17 gers leaflets encouraging them to Klein approved the charge, and complete an online survey. complete an online survey that deals with proposed service cuts by Air Canada. From left are South Okanagan- Vagramov is to appear in Port West Kootenay MP Richard Cannings, Summerland Mayor Toni Boot and Penticton Mayor John Vassilaki. “About half of the people we Coquitlam provincial court on “If you’re going to Vancouver spoke with have already filled the number of people going to April 25. Tour 27 - Trout Creek Ecological Cannings has met with Air for a day or two days of meetings, out the survey,” said South Vancouver for business meet- The allegation has not been Canada officials five times. you can take the early flight and Okanagan-West Kootenay MP ings. That’s critical for a lot of proven in court, and Vagramov When asked, he agrees the air- leave later. Without the later Richard Cannings, who was people here.” could not immediately be reached ALL DAY EVENTS line is a corporation, entitled to flight now, it means you will joined by Penticton Mayor John Cannings said he will be affect- for comment. make a profit. have to bail by 3 p.m. on your Vassilaki and Summerland ed on his return trips to Ottawa. The city’s communications de- “I don’t think they’ve looked meeting or spend the extra Mayor Toni Boot. Currently, he can arrive in partment did not immediately re- Reserve into the details for this,” night.” “The other half had no idea and Ottawa by 4:30 p.m. ET, but with spond to questions about whether Cannings said. “Penticton, I’m Anyone who hasn’t done so al- PAGE 5 they were quite shocked as to a later flight he won’t touch he will remain in his position and sure, is pretty small potatoes for ready is invited to visit shapey- how it’s going to affect them. ground until 11 p.m. continue to receive pay. owers! them. One of the reasons they ourcitypenticton.ca/penticton- There were three people going to Summer tourism is a concern, Spring isVagramov here was and 28 when so he wasare our fl like to fly into Penticton is to airport before April 6 to com- Tour 9 - KVR Birding Cycling Tour the Yukon this morning and an- but not on the same level because elected mayor last fall after serv- keep people on Air Canada flights plete an online survey.Primulas, The re- violets and assorted bulbs are in stock now! 9 am to 2 pm, Trout Creek, $25 other to New Brunswick. tourists have more flexibility in ing one term on council. once they arrive in Vancouver. sults will be forwarded to Air Without this flight, they’d have to their schedules. It’s the business He made headlines during the It’s clear they’ve looked at only Canada. leave a day earlier or drive to traveller he’s most concerned for. campaign when a 2014 video sur- one aspect, the connections, not 150 Fairview Place, Penticton Kelowna.” faced in which he asks a homeless man to chug a beer with him in ex- 250.493.1233 with Dick Cannings change for a sandwich. JUSTICE Proud Sponsor of Home Hardware Snow School at Apex Tour 28 - McIntyre Bluff / n’aylintn INSIDE PG. 11 A7 Vassilaki gives Canada PG 5 PG 6 6:30 am to 2 pm, Naramata, $100 Sean MacDonald — one of the PG 3 B6, B7 Community Spotlight Article state of the union Justice denied, then delayed, lawyersfor for Innocence man Canada, a ClassifiedMusical fundraiser Wrongfully COLUMN: Trucking Events Guide non-profit organizationregulations dedicated inadequateComicsfor man fighting cancerB8 Hike PG 7 convicted man’s to exonerating the wrongfully con- Silversmith victed and which spent years try- Crossword B5 case sat on ing to prove Assoun’s innocence — Entertainment Thursday,B1 March 28, 2019 thrust into Wilson-Raybould’s declined to specifically discuss A2 the spotlight Wilson-Raybould’s handling of the Lifestyles Tour 10 - Naramata and Chute Creek desk for months case. A8, A9 9 am to 2 pm, Vaseux Lake, $30 But he said in an interview: “I Opinion By The Canadian Press can tell you this much, that Glen Sports ERALDB2, B3 Assoun is 100 per cent factually in- H OTTAWA — Glen Assoun’s B8 nocent and he suffered every sin- Weather lawyer says the wrongfully con- B4 Hike gle day while he waited for his ex- victed Halifax man suffered “every World oneration. I can say that Minister single day” as he waited to be ex- Lametti worked with dispatch to onerated for a murder he didn’t Tour 29 - Scenic Canyon Regional make sure that justice was done.” commit — a wait that was pro- The Halifax Examiner first report- longed for months as his case sat A free product from The Penticton Herald ed earlier this month that Wilson- XTRA on former justice minister Jody 9 am to 2 pm, Naramata, $30 Raybould sat forE 18 months on the Wilson-Raybould’s desk. findings of the Justice Department’s David Lametti issued an order for The Canadian Press Glen Assoun is embraced by family members March 1 at Nova Scotia criminal conviction review group, Park Hike a new trial on Feb. 28, just seven which recommended that a new tri- weeks after taking over as justice Supreme Court in Halifax. al be ordered for Assoun. minister. The following day — af- being convicted of the brutal 1998 We use environmentally friendly, He had spent almost 17 years in ter a five-minute new trial in which murder of his ex-girlfriend, Brenda vegetable-oil-based ink. prison and another 4 1/2 years un- Continued on page A4 WINDOW COVERINGS WITH FLAIR! Penticton (250) 493-3086 the prosecution presented no evi- Way. OUR EXPERIENCE WILL SAVE YOU TIME & MONEY! der strict parole conditions after (250) 494-3054 Tour 11 - Mahoney Lake to White dence — Assoun was a free man. Summerland 9 am to 2 pm, Kelowna, $30 WINDOW COVERINGS WITH FLAIR! 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Tour 31 - The Outback of Oliver By JAMES MILLER Managing Editor In retirement, Johnson had a two-year stint as executive direc- tor of the South Okanagan 10 am to 2:30 pm, Bridesville, $30 enticton has lost one of its most beloved citizens. Community Foundation. More Following a three-year recently, he was twice elected to Mountain battle with pancreatic the Okanagan Skaha school board. P He was a trustee from 2011-2018, cancer, Bruce Johnson died which included two years as board March 19, 2019 at Moog and chairman. He did not seek re-elec- Friends Hospice, surrounded by tion in 2018 due to health family. He was 68. Tour 13 - Burrowing Owl Field Trip SOUTH OKANAGAN concerns. Born and raised in Penticton, 10 am to 3 pm, Oliver, $30 Penticton businessman Ryan Johnson graduated in 1967 from Graham was the valedictorian of Pen-Hi, where he was a multi- Princess Margaret’s first graduat- sport athlete, winning a Valley ing class in 2004 which was championship in football in his Johnson’s second-last year as graduating year. He pursued a 8 am to 1 pm, Osoyoos, $40 principal. He went to school with career in education, earning a Johnson’s daughter, Kelly. football scholarship to Eastern Graham was raised without his Washington University. He father and his mother was battling returned to his hometown, where cancer. Graham helped raise his MORNING EVENTS he was a teacher, vice-principal Estate brother, three years younger. and principal for 34 years. Real Graham’s life paralleled During his teaching career, Johnson’s, who lost his own Johnson spent time at Carmi father by the time he was 14. MARCH 29, 2019 Elementary, West Bench, Uplands “Mr. J. was always there for you. MORNING EVENTS and Skaha Lake Middle School. He When you were in trouble, you finished his career as principal of knew there was someone who had Tour 32 - Cottonwoods Birding Tour Princess Margaret Secondary your back. He was a caring, gen- School, retiring in 2006. uine person. He made you feel Prior to becoming an adminis- special as an individual.” trator, Johnson taught mostly Graham will never forget his social studies and science. Outside second day at Maggie, transfer- the classroom, he coached four Tour 14 - Naramata History Walking ring there in his Grade 11 year. He 6 am to 9 am, Penticton, $40 sports, but never football, witnessed a classmate shove a because the opportunity never Special Needs student into a lock- presented itself. er. Graham proceeded to do the Johnson volunteered with the same to the bully, but a teacher Canadian Cancer Society for 18 who passed by only saw his retali- Tour years. He was president at the lo- ation and sent him to the office. cal, Interior and provincial levels, When he explained what had and served for six years as nation- Tour 33 - Prayer for the Land happened and how much he al treasurer. Losing his 13-year-old despised bullies, Johnson replied, son Blaine to cancer, Johnson “Welcome to our school, Ryan and often made presentations to have a great day.” 9 am to 11 am, Naramata, $20 teenagers on “the power of a posi- Upon learning the news of his tive attitude.” He also worked with former principal’s death, Graham Ceremony bereaved parents who had lost shared a Penticton Herald post on children of their own to cancer. Facebook and received more than Johnson was president of both 100 comments and reactions from the South Okanagan Children’s his former classmates. Charity and the Penticton Golf Johnson is survived by his wife and Country Club. He was on the Tour 15 - Nature Photography Jan of 47 years, two children, four 9:30 am to 11:00 am, Penticton, By board of directors for the B.C. grandkids and his sister. He is pre- Summer and Winter Games, and deceased by his son Blaine (1991). was an active member of Pen-Hi’s Studio Suite Availa

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Tour 38 - The Historic Trails of Tour 58 - Rock Oven Hike Marron Valley 9 am to 3 pm, Skaha Bluffs, $20 9 am to noon, Kaleden, $50 Tour 59 - Syilx Stories and the Land Tour 39 - Spineless Critters that Rock 9:30 am to 2 pm, Penticton, $30 Our World 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, Summerland, MORNING EVENTS $10 Tour 60 - The Chat Chase Tour 40 - White Lake Walk with Terry 6 am to 10 am, Oliver, $30 McIntosh Tour 61 - Marron Valley Birding Tour 9 am to 1 pm, White Lake, $25 7:30 am to 11:30 am, Kaleden, $50 Tour 41 - Saddles and Sage Tour 62 - Mahoney Lake Tour Horseback Tour 9 am to 1 pm, White Lake, $25 9 am to 1 pm, Oliver, $80 Tour 64 - Similkameen Pines Tour Tour 43 - Snakes Alive! Snakes of the 8:30 am to 1 pm, Cawston, $20 South Okanagan Tour 65 - Saddles and Sage 10:30 am to noon, Osoyoos, $5 Horseback Tour Tour 44 - Wildlife, Wildflowers and 9 am to 1 pm, Oliver, $80 Campfire Roast Tour 66 - The Meadowlark 10:30 am to 1:30 pm, Naramata, $20 Deconstructed AFTERNOON EVENTS 11 am to 2 pm, Penticton, $85 Tour 45 - Saddles and Sage AFTERNOON TOURS Horseback Tour Tour 67 - Saddles and Sage Noon to 4 pm, Oliver, $80 Horseback Tour Tour 46 - Look up… Way up! Noon to 4 pm, Oliver, $80 1 pm to 2:30 pm, Osoyoos, $20 Tour 68 - Look up… Way up! Tour 47 - Building Climate Resilience 1 pm to 2:30 pm, Osoyoos, $20 in the Okanagan Tour 69 - Fur Brigade Trail 1 to 4 pm, Penticton, free 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Summerland, Tour 48 - Ancient Larches and $30 Endangered Sapsuckers Tour 70 - The Historic Trails of 1 to 4:30 pm, Okanagan Falls, $30 Marron Valley Tour 50 - Millionaire’s Row 1:30 to 4:30 pm, Kaleden, $50 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Summerland, EVENING EVENTS $30 Tour 71 - Night Sky Photography Tour 51 - Crows and Ravens Workshop 2 to 3:30 pm, Penticton, $10 10 pm to midnight, White Lake, $30 Tour 52 - Artist Talk with Alex Fong 1 to 2 pm, Penticton, free MONDAY MAY 20 EVENING EVENTS ALL DAY EVENTS Tour 53 - Saturday Night at the Tour 72 - Organics in the Movies Similkameen Valley 7 to 9 pm, Penticton, $10 9 am to 5 pm, South Okanagan, $20 UNDISCOVERED Tour 73 - Peach Cliff and Dusty Mac SUNDAY MAY 19 Mine Hike ALL DAY EVENTS 9 am to 2 pm, Okanagan Falls, $25 NATURAL BEAUTY Tour 54 - Okanagan Big Day Tour 74 - Kilpoola Lake Connectivity Start Planning your escape to Penticton Challenge IBA Tour midnight to midnight, Okanagan 9 am to 2 pm, Osoyoos, $30 to explore our natural environment! Valley, free MORNING EVENTS From the rugged mountain terrain to our Tour 55 - Oliver to Osoyoos Cycling Loop Tour 75 - Last Call Birding Tour fresh water lakes, there is so much to 8:30 am to 1 pm, Oliver/Osoyoos, 8 am to 11 am, White Lake, $20 discover. Hike between the vineyards and $30 Tour 76 - Penticton Oxbow Tour orchards along the KVR trail or scout for Tour 56 - Rattlesnake Island Kayak 9 am to 11 am, Penticton, $20 Big Horn Sheep and Eagles higher up in Tour Tour 77 - KVR Trail from Vancouver the mountains. 8 am to 1 pm, Peachland, $120 Ave to Lakeview Cemetery Tour 57 - Johns Family Nature 9 am to 11:30 am, Penticton, $20 Conservancy Regional Park visitpenticton.com 8:30 am to 2 pm, Kelowna, $25 @visitpenticton | #visitpenticton 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Tour 31 Tour 35 Tour 37 30 4 20 12+ 30 2 20 10+ 30 3 20 ALL $ + $ + $ + The Outback of Oliver Mountain Garnet Valley Southern Interior Land Trust 10 am to 3 pm – Ecosystems Management, —Cold Creek Property Tour Oliver Mountain, forming a scenic backdrop Birding and Botanizing 8:30 am to noon to the town of Oliver, is home to a variety of 8:30 am to 11:30 am Join Southern Interior Land Trust (SILT) wildlife and acts a critical refuge for a host of Rob Stewart, a seasoned birder and naturalist President Ross Everatt, wildlife biologist Al species at risk. Retaining some of the largest Tour 33 who’s been birding and botanizing since Peatt, outdoors enthusiast and writer Judie tracts of the endangered Antelope Brush childhood, leads this outdoor ramble in the Steeves, and cottonwood expert Kasey Moran ecosystem left remaining in the Okanagan N/A 1 N/A ALL Garnet Valley conservation area. This area for a walk and talk tour of SILT’s 20-hectare valley, the mountain is a biological gem. Join $ + is a unique and special natural space that Cold Creek property near Keremeos.Over Keith Baric, Parks Planner on a tour of Oliver has sustained the Syilx people for millennia, 200 plant and animal species occur here Mountain to explore its unique features and to Prayer for the Land Ceremony and in recent centuries settlers and their and the views of the river and surrounding hear about some of the present management 9:30 am to 11:00 am descendants. The theme of ecosystem mountains are spectacular. The property fronts issues and opportunities. This is a strenuous Join Syilx Traditional Ecological Knowledge management, birding and botanizing will the Similkameen River and extends from an hike meant for physically fit people. Proper Keeper and cultural educator Richard be woven through the morning’s walk while intact cottonwood stand through dry shrub- footwear (e.g. above the ankle hiking boots) Armstrong to share your good thoughts and visiting some recent ecological restoration steppe to steep cliffs, and includes a spring-fed is required. positive intentions for the land in a prayer for projects including the dry ponderosa pine year-round stream! The property has habitat for Location: Oliver the land ceremony at the ECOmmunity Place forest management project where restoration bighorn sheep, mountain goat, deer, bobcat, Meeting Place: Oliver Visitor Centre, Oliver Locatee Lands in Penticton. Participation by has opened the forest to improve ecosystem beaver, rattlesnake, woodpecker, butterflies and peregrine falcon. We’ll explore the diversity of Transportation: Carpool donation. values and Ritchie Lake where the dramatic Location: Penticton results of wetland restoration completed in ecosystems and wild life, learn about the private Additional items to bring: Bagged lunch, life of cottonwoods and why they are important Meeting Place: ECOmmunity Place Locatee 2014 are astounding. Water (2 litres), Binoculars, Camera, Field to people too, and how conserving gems of Lands North Gate (at Doc’s Golf Centre Location: Summerland Guides habitat such as Cold Creek will help all living Parking Lot - Hwy #97 and bottom of Meeting Location: Summerland Dairy things for generations to come. Bring binoculars West Bench Hill Road) Tour 32 Queen parking lot (at Hwy 97 and if desired. NOTE: Cold Creek is a gem of near- 40 1-2 24 ALL $5 Transportation: None Prairie Valley Road) natural Similkameen wildlife habitat. There is $ + CT Additional items to bring: folding chair Transportation: Carpool cactus, poison ivy, unfenced riverfront, and or blanket; donation or offering (optional). the possibility of encountering rattlesnake Cottonwoods Birding Tour Portable washrooms on site. Tour 36 at this property. This tour is brought to you in 6 am to 9 am Tour 34 30 1 25 5+ partnership with Southern Interior Land Trust. Conservation ecologist, photographer $ + Location: Keremeos and author, A. Michael Bezener, leads 20 1 12 10+ Meeting Place: Either of two locations. Meet this rare opportunity to bird at dawn at $ + Bluebirds, Vistas and Vines at 8:30 am at the Walmart Penticton parking lot the ECOmmunity Place Locatee Lands in 8:30 am to noon Introductory Birding Workshop near the auto repair area, and then rendezvous Penticton. This special area encompasses a Walk the Bluebird Trail on the Burrowing with remaining participants at 9:15 am at the complex mosaic of riparian, wetland and 7:30 am to 10:30 am Owl Estate Winery property on Road 22 Esso station parking lot in Keremeos located grassland habitats found nowhere else in Spend the morning learning the basics of overlooking the Black Sage bench with Lee at the intersection of Hwy 3 and Hwy 3a the Penticton area, and is home to many birdwatching and get inspired to take up this McFadyen. Enjoy spectacular valley views and intersection. colourful bird species, including several rare fun and rewarding hobby! This workshop watch for a variety of birds of prey including Transportation: Carpool and Endangered species. You will see and is meant for beginners (kids and adults) Redtail Hawks. We will visit a number of nest hear a wide range of migrant and resident and anyone looking to learn what birding boxes which may be inhabited by bluebirds, birds and learn about the Syilx cultural and is all about. Local birder Eva Durance will tree swallows, chickadees, house wrens, conservation significance of species known discuss critical aspects such as how to nuthatches or violet green swallows. Peep to inhabit the site including Yellow-breasted choose binoculars and birding scopes, bird into the boxes to find parent birds, eggs, and Chat, Calliope Hummingbird, Lazuli Bunting, guides, and digital apps and then the basics baby birds at various stages of development. Western Tanager and Yellow Warbler. Portable of how to identify birds. Afterwards, Eva will Your day ends on the patio where you can washrooms will be on site. lead participants on a walk through Sun- enjoy your bagged lunch/snack. Wine tasting Location: Penticton Oka Provincial Park and along Trout Creek is available for a small fee or you can purchase Meeting Place: ECOmmunity Place Locatee so you can practice identifying birds in the a glass of wine to enjoy as well. Lands North Gate (at Doc’s Golf Centre area’s diverse range of habitats: lake, beach, Location: Oliver cottonwood thickets, ponderosa pine stands, Parking Lot - Hwy #97 and bottom of West Meeting Place: Burrowing Owl Estate and the cliffs across the highway. Bench Hill Road) Winery, 500 Burrowing Owl Pl, Oliver Location: Summerland Transportation: None Transportation: none Meeting Place: Sun-Oka Beach Provincial Additional items to bring: binoculars; Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch spotting scope or camera (optional) Park Parking Lot Transportation: None

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Tour 37 Tour 38 Tour 39 30 3 20 ALL $5 50 2-3 20 10+ 10 0-1 20 8+ $ + CT $ + $ + Southern Interior Land Trust The Historic Trails Spineless Critters —Cold Creek Property Tour of Marron Valley that Rock Our World 8:30 am to noon 9 am to noon 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Join Southern Interior Land Trust (SILT) Walk the historic trails of Marron Valley Take a look at the abundance of life in the streams President Ross Everatt, wildlife biologist Al with Historian Randy Manuel as he tells of above Summerland with Head Taxonomist Scott Peatt, outdoors enthusiast and writer Judie the hidden canyon footpaths of First Nations Finlayson of Cordillera Consulting. Learn about Steeves, and cottonwood expert Kasey Moran youth while on their quests to reach adulthood sampling methods and the importance of macro- for a walk and talk tour of SILT’s 20-hectare and the route taken by early Brigaders. Walk insects to the stream ecosystem and how many Cold Creek property near Keremeos.Over quietly past the turtle marsh and up the early levels of industry and government use insects 200 plant and animal species occur here stage coach road that the early settlers of the in determining stream health. Participants will and the views of the river and surrounding Similkameen once trod. Walk the area locals see just how many creatures live in our nearby mountains are spectacular. The property fronts called Starvation Jackson’s Flats and hear the waterways with explanations of some of the the Similkameen River and extends from an story how one of Jackson’s sons became one adaptations they have that allow them to thrive intact cottonwood stand through dry shrub- of the richest men in British Columbia. The locally.project where restoration has opened the steppe to steep cliffs, and includes a spring-fed tour ends with a selection of cheese, crackers forest to improve ecosystem values and Ritchie year-round stream! The property has habitat for and fruit with hot and cold beverages enjoyed Lake where the dramatic results of wetland bighorn sheep, mountain goat, deer, bobcat, on the lawn over-looking Marron Lake in the restoration completed in 2014 are astounding. beaver, rattlesnake, woodpecker, butterflies and garden of Mountain Springs Nature Retreat. Location: Summerland peregrine falcon. We’ll explore the diversity of Price includes: Refreshments and Meeting Place: Summerland Dairy Queen ecosystems and wild life, learn about the private snacks parking lot life of cottonwoods and why they are important Location: Kaleden Transportation: Carpool to people too, and how conserving gems of Meeting Place: Mountain Springs Nature habitat such as Cold Creek will help all living Retreat, North side of Hwy #3A, between Tour 40 things for generations to come. Bring binoculars Kaleden and Twin Lakes. Meet at the first $ if desired. NOTE: Cold Creek is a gem of near- bend on the driveway, about 200 feet down 25 2 20 ALL 5 natural Similkameen wildlife habitat. There is the drive from the gate. $ + CT cactus, poison ivy, unfenced riverfront, and Transportation: None the possibility of encountering rattlesnake White Lake Walk at this property. This tour is brought to you in with Terry McIntosh partnership with Southern Interior Land Trust. 9 am to 1 pm Location: Keremeos Join botanist Dr. Terry McIntosh as he takes Meeting Place: Either of two locations. Meet you for a walk around the botanically rich at 8:30 am at the Walmart Penticton parking lot White Lake area. Terry’s sense of humour near the auto repair area, and then rendezvous mixed with his knowledge of the regional with remaining participants at 9:15 am at the plants and habitats always makes this event Esso station parking lot in Keremeos located special. You will go around the east part of the at the intersection of Hwy 3 and Hwy 3a property through open forest and by massive intersection. rock outcrops up to a series of flats and small Transportation: Carpool dry lakes. Then, take a short, steep hike up to a cool, rich plateau and back down the other side to White Lake itself stopping to discuss many of the plants that highlight the area. Location: White Lake Meeting Place: Green Gate Parking Lot at What to Bring White Lake, Fairview White Lake Road Please be prepared for all sorts of weather – hot, sunny, windy, cold and Transportation: None rain too! Dress in layers and bring all-weather clothing, sunscreen, a sun hat, sturdy hiking footwear, a snack and at least 1 litre of water for all tours and events. For longer walks and hikes you will need at least 2 litres of water, as well as snacks and a bagged lunch (if not provided). Cameras, binoculars and plant and bird field guides are optional but add to your enjoyment.In the case of some tours, a note will be made for additional items to bring.

15 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tour 41 Tour 45 80 2-3 9 12+ 80 2-3 9 12+ $ + $ + Saddles and Sage Saddles and Sage Horseback Tour Horseback Tour 9 am to 1 pm Noon to 4 pm Ride on horseback through a spectacular sage Arrive, relax and listen to traditional stories plateau on the Osoyoos Indian Band reserve while enjoying a delicious lunch including with Wolf Creek Trail Rides. Following the traditional bannock. Following lunch, you will ride, relax and listen to traditional stories Tour 43 then ride on horseback through a spectacular while enjoying a delicious lunch including 5 0-1 100 ALL sage plateau on the Osoyoos Indian Band traditional bannock. A wonderful opportunity $ reserve with Wolf Creek Trail Rides. A to discover the hidden beauty of the hills east + wonderful opportunity to discover the hidden of Oliver. Snakes Alive! beauty of the hills east of Oliver. Price includes: Lunch Snakes of the South Okanagan Price includes: Lunch Location: Oliver 10:30 am to noon Location: Oliver Meeting Place: Wolf Creek Trail Rides The South Okanagan is home to seven species Meeting Place: Wolf Creek Trail Rides Transportation: None of snakes. You will learn about the biology and Transportation: None habits of local snakes, as well as conservation Additional items to bring: Cowboy Boots Additional items to bring: Cowboy Boots efforts to help these species at risk. Several (optional) (optional) species of live snakes will also be shown in order for you to be able to recognize and identify these wonderful creatures. Tour 46 Location: Osoyoos 20 1-2 10 5+ LEGEND Meeting Place: Nk’Mip Desert Cultural $ + Centre Look up… Way up! $ Price 5 Child’s Transportation: None 1 pm to 2:30 pm $ CT Ticket Additional items to bring: Children under Jack Newton took his first astrophotograph 14 must bring an adult! of the planet Saturn when he was 13 years Level of Difficulty old and from there his passion for all things Tour 44 celestial, well… exploded! Join acclaimed Level 0~Access for all. Flat terrain. 20 2 15 12+ $5 amatuer astronomer, pioneer of “cold Level 1~Easy walking. All/mostly $ + CT camera” astrophotography, educator and level paths. writer Jack Newton, along with his wife Level 2~Paths can be narrow with Wildlife, Wildflowers Alice, in an afternoon of daytime sky viewing some uneven terrain. and Campfire Roast at their renowned Osoyoos observatory. 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Perched 1,600 feet above the valley floor, Level 3~Obstacles in paths and/ the observatory is equipped with a 16-foot Rail history author John Shaske leads an easy or uneven terrain. Steeper dome and computer-controlled telescope that grade requiring agility. walk exploring the flora and fauna around the offers exquisite viewing of daytime objects Horseshoe Tunnel on the Kettle Valley Railway Level 4~Very steep, insecure including, with the help of H-alpha filters, (KVR) followed by a campfire roast lunch in a footing. Long hike. Good the sun! Located 10km east of Osoyoos on rustic Naramata pine forest setting overlooking physical condition needed. Highway 3 – look for the white house with the Okanagan Lake. If you’re marvelled by mosses, white dome. Please note: The site has many worried about invasive weeds, curious about stairs and is not wheelchair accessible. Maximum Group Size cabooses and those backwards-numbered signs, don’t miss this special outing. John’s Location: Osoyoos longtime expertise and flora knowledge will Meeting Place: Newton Observatory - offer a chance of solving your wildest questions Osoyoos + Age Permitted from plants to rails and leave you with queries Transportation: None and ideas for next time. Price includes: Lunch Location: Naramata Meeting Place: Wharf Park, 1st Street, Naramata Transportation: Carpool

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Tour 48 Tour 51 30 1-2 25 12+ $5 10 0 N/A 8+ $ + CT $ + Ancient Larches and Crows and Ravens Endangered Sapsuckers - Murders and Inconveniences! 1 pm to 4:30 pm 2 pm to 3:30 pm In the Okanagan, the fate of endangered The intelligencia of the bird world, Crows Williamson’s Sapsuckers is tied to that of the and Ravens are increasingly the subject of most magnificent specimen of the world’s scientific research - revealing an astounding larches, the Western Larch. Join biologist and array of behaviour that approaches and even naturalist Les Gyug on this tour of several short surpasses the human-like abilities of some and easy walks in a Williamson’s Sapsucker mammals. The largest members of the Corvid Wildlife Habitat Area amidst a towering stand family of birds, Crows and Ravens may be of 400 year-old Western Larches. Explore easily distinguished from one another by Tour 47 the ecology of larches, sapsuckers, other their appearance and behaviour, but the woodpeckers, ants and the role fire plays in different ways in which the two species think Building Climate Resilience maintaining the ecology of these mid-elevation and solve problems is not always so evident. in the Okanagan stands. Be prepared for cooler weather than in This fun and enlightening session led by the valley, and with appropriate footwear for recreational birder Jeff Salton and volunteer 1 to 4 pm short walks through the forest, especially if the Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide En’owkin Centre, weather has been wet. for the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in 154 En’owkin Trail, Penticton Location: OK Falls the Colorado Desert of Southern California Recent flooding and wildfire events Meeting Place: IGA Parking Lot, OK Falls will help beginning birders and experts alike better appreciate the remarkable features of have strained the resources of Okanagan Transportation: Carpool residents to adapt to climate change. American Crows and Common Ravens, and Homeowners are facing environmental Tour 50 the distinguishing differences between the changes and struggling to understand the two species. best ways to respond. The looming question 30 0 20 12+ Location: Okanagan College Theatre, is “How ready are private property owners $ + Penticton to cope with impacts of climate change?” Millionaire’s Row Transportation: None The South Okanagan Real Estate Board in - a historical tour of Prairie Valley partnership with the Regional District of 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm Okanagan Similkameen, South Okanagan Once known as Millionaire’s Row, Prairie Similkameen Conservation Program and Valley has a rich and fascinating history. Okanagan Nation Alliance have produced Join your personal guide David Gregory for a new outreach document Building a hike along the Trans Canada Trail. You’ll Climate Resilience in the Okanagan: A learn about the history of early Summerland, Homeowners’ Resource Guide to address its fruit growing industry and colourful pressing issues. Exploring topics such as characters such as Sam McGee (Cremation Climate, Flood, Drought, Fire, Energy of Sam McGee); R.B Angus, co-founder of Efficiency, Invasive Species and Food the CPR and national President of the Bank Security, this guide provides practical of Montreal; Sir Herbert Holt President of the hands on information and advice about Royal Bank; Sir Edmund Osler, president of actions each of us can take to make the the Dominion Bank; First Nations heritage, places we live more robust in the face of the geology of the valley and the Summerland climate change. water system. Tour 52 This Meadowlark Festival presentation will Location: Summerland include several experts highlighting key Meeting Place: Summerland Rodeo Grounds FREE 0 40 ALL issues in the guide including Fire, Flood $ and Insurance which will be followed by Transportation: None + question period. Attendees will receive Artist Talk with Alex Fong a complimentary copy of the Resource 1 pm to 2 pm Guide. Admission is free. Join the 2019 Meadowlark featured artist Alex Fong as he discusses his exhibition Water… as well as his technique and approach to art. Location: Penticton Art Gallery, 199 Marina Way Transportation: None

17 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tour 55 SUNDAY MAY 19TH Tour 53 30 2-3 20 16+ Saturday Night at the Movies Tour 54 $ + FREE 0 N/A ALL Oliver to Osoyoos Cycling Loop 7 to 9 pm - Okanagan College Theatre, Penticton $ + 8:30 am to 1 pm Tickets $10 Okanagan Big Day Challenge Join trail enthusiast Henry Sielmann, along with ecologist and birder Jim Shaver, on a midnight to midnight cycling tour along trails leading from Oliver For the Love of Salmon Join the fun of this friendly competition to to Osoyoos. Starting from the old KVR (8 minutes) see which team can see and hear the most Station in Oliver, the group will cycle along Under a haze of wildfire smoke and with species of birds in one day (midnight Saturday the Okanagan River to the natural habitat to midnight Sunday) in the Okanagan Valley. information kiosk located on Route 22. her ancestors watching from above, Keely Once again, this year is fossil-fuel-free, so all Weget-Whitney steps into the frigid and Following Route 22 for 1 km, the group will teams and individuals must do their birding then cycle towards Osoyoos along a recently fast-moving waters of the Fraser River with while walking, biking or sitting! For those not resurfaced section of the former KVR rail one goal in mind: make people care. In this stirring documentary, the 25-year- wanting to deal with total sleep deprivation, bed, before looping back across a wetland old member of the Stl’atl’imx First Nation embarks on a 60 kilometre swim to there is a Novice event which runs noon to 5 area to the point of departure. Along the pm. Bicycle birding teams usually see about bring awareness to the depleting number of wild salmon and its impacts on her way, Henry will talk about the vision of a 130 species, and the record to date is 146! valley-wide recreational pathway connecting culture and the environment. Attending is film-maker and producer Jan Vozenilek Funds raised through pledges will go towards many communities and natural sites between of Copper Sky Productions who will introduce the film and take part in a Q&A bird conservation and research projects, Osoyoos and Sicamous. Jim will point out following the film. Presented in partnership with the Rivershed Society of BC. including the Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory. some of the spectacular habitats, home to Location: Okanagan Valley many of the Okanagan’s rarer bird and plant The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Meeting Place: None species. One or two hill climbs and a short (83 minutes) Transportation: None ride on the shoulder of Highway 97 are Additional items to bring: The desire to see required. E-assist bikes are permitted but not In 1956, well before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and mandatory. Participants must be able to cycle Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old Canadian biologist as many species as possible through walking, biking or sitting! 50km on rough surface with only one break. Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become We will take a picnic lunch break on the shore the first person in the world to of Osoyoos Lake. study animal behaviour in the Location: Oliver/Osoyoos wild on that continent. When she Meeting Place: Oliver Visitor Centre, 6431 Station Street returned home a year later armed Transportation: None with ground-breaking research, the Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch, insurmountable barriers she faced solid bike with good trail tires of at least as a female scientist proved much 1.5” in width; bicycle helmet, water, snacks, harder to overcome. In The Woman binoculars/spotting scope (optional) Who Loves Giraffes, at 85 years of age, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg takes us on her first expedition back to Africa, retracing her incredible journey that began more than half a century ago. With letters and stunning original 16mm film footage, Anne offers an intimate window into her life as well as the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today.

“Director Alison Reid deserves high praise for fine storytelling.” – Toronto Star “Terrific doc is must-see.” – POV Magazine

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Tour 55 Tour 56 Tour 57 30 2-3 20 16+ 120 3 15 14+ 25 2-3 20 ALL $5 $ + $ + $ + CT Oliver to Osoyoos Cycling Loop Rattlesnake Island Kayak Tour Johns Family Nature 8:30 am to 1 pm 8 am to 1 pm Conservancy Regional Park Join trail enthusiast Henry Sielmann, along Join Hoodoo Adventure guides on an 8:30 am to 2 pm with ecologist and birder Jim Shaver, on a exhilarating paddle to the lair of the elusive Join James Chester, Regional District of Central cycling tour along trails leading from Oliver Ogopogo. Departing from Peachland, you’ll Okanagan Parks staff for a spectacular hike in to Osoyoos. Starting from the old KVR cross Okanagan Lake to Okanagan Mountain the Johns Family Nature Conservancy Regional Station in Oliver, the group will cycle along Park’s Rattlesnake Island. Learn about the Park. This 1000-acre property was bequeathed the Okanagan River to the natural habitat island’s unusual history from your guide and to the Central Okanagan Land Trust in 2013 information kiosk located on Route 22. enjoy your bagged lunch on the shores of by Alf and Nancy Johns. Following the Following Route 22 for 1 km, the group will Okanagan Lake before making your way to the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Forest Fire in then cycle towards Osoyoos along a recently top to explore the remnants of an abandoned which the entire park was burned, flora is resurfaced section of the former KVR rail theme park. Single and double boats available. now rebounding and you’ll readily see the bed, before looping back across a wetland Participants should dress for rain or shine and extraordinary ability of nature to heal itself. area to the point of departure. Along the wear footwear that you don’t mind getting There is a tremendous growth of vegetation way, Henry will talk about the vision of a wet. This is a strenuous return paddle; good and participants will also learn how wildlife valley-wide recreational pathway connecting physical fitness is required. Please note: In the exploits this growth. Typically in May over 60 many communities and natural sites between event of inclement weather, the tour will be bird species are observed and many flower Osoyoos and Sicamous. Jim will point out cancelled and refunds issued. species are in bloom. Mammals are common some of the spectacular habitats, home to Price includes: kayaks and all safety including ground squirrels, marmots, two many of the Okanagan’s rarer bird and plant equipment species of deer, and maybe black bears or elk. species. One or two hill climbs and a short Location: Peachland Much of the tour will be in the area restricted ride on the shoulder of Highway 97 are to those holding an access permit. Views of required. E-assist bikes are permitted but not Meeting Place: Peachland boat launch just south of the Princeton Avenue and Highway Okanagan Lake are spectacular! mandatory. Participants must be able to cycle Location: Kelowna 50km on rough surface with only one break. 97 traffic light We will take a picnic lunch break on the shore Transportation: None Meeting Place: Thomson Marsh, of Osoyoos Lake. Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch, south end of H2O Centre parking lot, 4075 Gordon Drive, Kelowna Location: Oliver/Osoyoos weather shell for wind block and warmth Transportation: Carpool Meeting Place: Oliver Visitor Centre, 6431 Station Street Additional items to bring: Bagged lunch Transportation: None Tour 58 Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch, solid bike with good trail tires of at least 20 4 20 12+ 1.5” in width; bicycle helmet, water, snacks, $ + binoculars/spotting scope (optional) Rock Oven Hike: Skaha Bluffs to Heritage Hills and Return 9 am to 3 pm Renee Martin and other members of The Penticton Outdoors Club lead a vigorous hike to the Rock Oven granite fin. This hike follows hiking and bike trails South from Skaha Bluffs to a beautiful viewpoint looking south to Skaha Lake, OK Falls and the South Okanagan. You will make a loop with steep ascents and descents. This is a strenuous hike. Good physical condition, good footwear, hats and water are essential. Location: Skaha Bluffs Meeting Place: Skaha Bluffs Upper Parking Lot Transportation: None Additional items to bring: Bagged lunch

19 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tour 59 Tour 61 Tour 62 Tour 66 30 2 20 12+ 50 2 20 18+ 25 2 20 10+ $5 85 N/A 20 12+ $ + $ + $ + CT $ + Syilx Stories and the Land Marron Valley Birding Tour Mahoney Lake Tour The Meadowlark Deconstructed: 9:30 am to 2 pm 7:30 am to 11:30 am 9 am to 1 pm an art workshop with Alex Fong Join traditional knowledge keeper Henry Enjoy a fun and relaxed morning of birding Join avid hiker Sue Mavety on a relatively easy 11 am to 2 pm Michel and explore the scenic Locatee Lands in an astonishingly diverse 340 acre piece of trek on forest trails through the Mahoney Lake Here’s a chance to create your own through the medium of storytelling as critical paradise with bird ecologist, author, and nature Ecological Reserve. View the world-renowned Meadowlark in yellow, blue, red or even hot to reconciliation. Henry will set the stage by photographer A. Michael Bezener. Participants Mahoney Lake, a saline lake having very pink! Join 2019 Meadowlark featured artist recounting some aspects of the workings of the can expect to see a wide variety of bird species unique limnological features and known for Alex Fong in this fun and informal workshop. “creation” stories that bind the Syilxʷ peoples as we explore the many habitats in this amazing its rare Algae. Along the way you’ll also visit Using a blend of watercolours and acrylics, to the land and explore concepts of current site including lake, marsh and creek habitats, an old earthen dam. Small ponds may contain Alex will give step-by-step instruction taking applications in understanding sustainability riparian woodlands, cliffs and canyons, open various water-fowl and deer are prevalent in participants through the process of creating and ecosystem health through story. meadows and pine forests. After the hike, the area. a Western Meadowlark, while encouraging Participants will then have an opportunity to savour a coffee break with delicious home- Location: OK Falls you to express your own individual creativity. develop land-based stories of their own. The baked organic treats, cheese and crackers and Meeting Place: Okanagan Falls IGA parking There should be plenty of time to brush up on Locatee Lands, a fascinating mix of riparian fruit at the Mountain Springs Nature Retreat lot your bulrushes! You can also try your hand at woodland open grasslands, abounds with while watching three species of hummingbirds Transportation: Carpool a variety of other backgrounds available to birdlife so there is much to see along the way. vie for control of the centre’s nectar feeders! choose from or bring your own inspirational Additional items to bring: Plenty of water, This is a wonderful opportunity to gain insight Price includes: Refreshments and snacks image to work from. Participants must bring snacks and bagged lunch, Trekking Poles/ to reconciliation through indigenous concepts Location: Kaleden their own art supplies. ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE of land knowledge. Walking Sticks Meeting Place: Mountain Springs Nature WELCOME! Location: Penticton Retreat, North side of Hwy #3A, between Tour 64 Watercolour paint suggestions: Burnt Meeting Location: En’owkin Centre, Kaleden and Twin Lakes Sienna, Burnt Umber, Alizarin Crimson, $ Penticton Indian Reserve Transportation: None 20 2 25 8+ 5 Raw Sienna Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, Transportation: None $ + CT Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green, Hookers Green, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Additional items to bring: boots, long Similkameen Pines Tour pants, bagged lunch, “sit-upon” Ochre 8:30 am to 1 pm Acrylic paint suggestions: Titanium White, Tour 60 Explore this spectacular part of the South Metalic Gold, Bronze, Copper, Various Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area with Colours, Liquitex softbody, FW liquid acrylic 30 1 15 8+ tour guide Lee McFadyen. The trail follows inks $ + a historical smugglers route beside the Brush suggestions: 1/8”, ¼”, ½”, 1” square wild Similkameen River to the Washington The Chat Chase Aquarelle, rounds (all sizes), rigger long State border, guarded by Mt Chopaka and bristle, 3” Hake or wide bristle was brush 6 am to 10 am Sleeping Lady (the Cascades) to the west and Join researcher Dr. Christine Bishop to see and Chopaka West Grasslands Protected Area to Paper suggestions: arches / WC Board learn about the recovery of the Yellow breasted the east. Note: Poison Ivy area, long pants (or personal preference) any size, soaked Chat population in the Valley. Follow along recommended, with care can be avoided. (approx..10 minutes), stretched WC paper Road 22 area dikes and dirt roads on a birding Location: Cawston Other supplies: Large palette (preferably white), large pail, small plastic containers tour of the riparian areas and finally join up Meeting Place: Sudbury Beach parking lot, with the chat crew to band some chats. The (approx. 2 oz) paper towel, blow dryer, Penticton @ 8:30 am; or Nighthawk Road and cosmetic sponge tour includes some walking on level ground to Hwy 3 Junction (west of Osoyoos) @ 9:30 am areas where chats have territories in the South Price includes: Light lunch and a glass of Okanagan wildlife management area. Transportation: Carpool wine (19+ only; non-alcoholic beverages also Location: Oliver Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch available) Meeting Place: Oliver Parks and Recreation Location: Room 108, Shatford Centre, Centre, 6359 Park Drive, Oliver Tour 65 760 Main Street, Penticton Transportation: Carpool 80 1-2 12 5+ Transportation: none $ + Additional items to bring: please see art Saddles and Sage supply list above Horseback Tour 9 am to 1 pm See Tour 41 for description.

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Tour 66 Tour 67 Tour 71 85 N/A 20 12+ 80 1-2 12 5+ 30 0 20 12+ $ + $ + $ + The Meadowlark Deconstructed: Saddles and Sage Night Sky Photography an art workshop with Alex Fong Horseback Tour Workshop 11 am to 2 pm Noon to 4 pm 10 pm to midnight Here’s a chance to create your own See Tour 45 for description. Join Caillum Smith from Preserved Light Meadowlark in yellow, blue, red or even hot Photography for a photography workshop pink! Join 2019 Meadowlark featured artist Tour 68 under the Milky Way and stars as he takes Alex Fong in this fun and informal workshop. you to some of the darkest skies in the South Using a blend of watercolours and acrylics, 20 1-2 12 5+ Okanagan. Learn how to fearlessly point Alex will give step-by-step instruction taking $ + your camera into the night sky and capture participants through the process of creating Look up… Way up! amazing photographs. Caillum will cover a Western Meadowlark, while encouraging many tips, techniques and concepts to you to express your own individual creativity. 1 pm to 2:30 pm ensure you and your camera are prepared to There should be plenty of time to brush up on See Tour 46 for description. creatively document the light of night in this your bulrushes! You can also try your hand at progressive and hands-on workshop tailored a variety of other backgrounds available to Tour 69 to all skill levels. choose from or bring your own inspirational 30 2 20 12+ $5 Location: White Lake image to work from. Participants must bring $ + CT Meeting Place: Dominion Radio their own art supplies. ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE Astrophysical Observatory entrance WELCOME! Fur Brigade Trail Transportation: None Watercolour paint suggestions: Burnt - Over 200 Years! Sienna, Burnt Umber, Alizarin Crimson, Additional items to bring: Camera (manual 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm mode recommended), tripod (mandatory) Raw Sienna Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue, Using a Gold Field Travel Guide map originally Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green, Hookers Green, published in 1858, local historian David TH Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Gregory will lead you along the famous Fur MONDAY MAY 20 Ochre Brigade Trail through Garnett Valley. Originally Acrylic paint suggestions: Titanium White, one of the most important native trails used by Tour 72 Metalic Gold, Bronze, Copper, Various fur traders, the trail was also significant for gold $ Colours, Liquitex softbody, FW liquid acrylic seekers, cattlemen and businessmen during 20 1 25 16+ 5 inks the Cariboo Gold Rush. The tour starts with a $ + CT Brush suggestions: 1/8”, ¼”, ½”, 1” square power point presentation at the museum and Organics in the Aquarelle, rounds (all sizes), rigger long then moves on to the 50-acre Priest Camp Similkameen Valley Historic Park (the Brigade Trail’s most important bristle, 3” Hake or wide bristle was brush 9 am to 5 pm Paper suggestions: arches / WC Board encampment site), the Fur Brigade Trail Linear Park and concludes at L’Arbre Seul a look-out Join guide Lee McFadyen on this day long (or personal preference) any size, soaked tour visiting organic Farms in Cawston, (approx..10 minutes), stretched WC paper site, offering one of the most stunning views of Okanagan Lake, anywhere! Similkameen Valley, Organic Capitol of Other supplies: Large palette (preferably Canada. During this insightful trip you will Location: Summerland white), large pail, small plastic containers receive an overview of organic methods and (approx. 2 oz) paper towel, blow dryer, Meeting Place: Summerland Museum explore how conservation and farming can cosmetic sponge Transportation: Carpool co-exist. Learn about how a chance seedling Price includes: Light lunch and a glass of can become a major new apple. Bring your wine (19+ only; non-alcoholic beverages also Tour 70 own lunch to enjoy while taking in the view available) 50 2-3 20 10+ of the beautiful Similkameen River, Mount Location: Room 108, Shatford Centre, $ Chopaka and The Sleeping Lady. 760 Main Street, Penticton + Location: South Okanagan Transportation: none The Historic Trails Meeting Place: The Grist Mill and Gardens, Additional items to bring: please see art of Marron Valley 2691 Upper Bench Road, Keremeos supply list above 1:30 to 4:30 pm Transportation: Carpool See Tour 38 for description. Additional Items to bring: Bagged Lunch, Binoculars/Notebook

21 2019 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tour 73 Tour 74 25 3-4 20 ALL $5 30 2 20 12+ $5 $ + CT $ + CT Peach Cliff and Kilpoola Lake Dusty Mac Mine Hike Connectivity IBA Tour 9 am to 2 pm 9 am to 2 pm Join avid hiker Sue Mavety on an invigorating The Important Bird Area (IBA) Program is hike up to to Peach Cliff and the Dusty Mac designated by a specific set of scientific criteria Mine. Enjoy expansive views from Penticton and includes critical sites in over 100 countries. to Skaha Lake to Vaseux Lake. See remnants The Kilpoola area is identified as one of these of the mine itself which produced gold and globally sensitive areas. This site is adjacent to silver from 1969 to 1976 and possibly catch the Washington State border which makes it Tour 76 glimpses of the Gold Fish that have taken up essential for the north and south movement 20 0-1 15 ALL residence in the old Dusty Mac mining quarry. of both plant and animal species. Join South $ + Along the way you’ll wander past numerous Okanagan Naturalists’ Club member Doreen ponds in the surrounding hills that are home Olson along with Conservation Northwest’s Penticton Oxbow Tour to deer, mountain sheep and coyotes. This is Sagelands Program lead Jay Kehne to learn 9 am to 11 am a vigorous hike with lots of ups and downs. about this important connectivity corridor. See Join historian Randy Manuel for a most Location: Okanagan Falls interesting lakes, an old growth forest, birds, interesting look back in time at the Penticton Meeting Place: Okanagan Falls IGA parking lot plants, and exceptional views while enjoying a Oxbows. Hear the stories of steam boats, sand day in the South Okanagan wilderness. Note: the bars and switchbacks, floods and near-death Transportation: Carpool road is unpaved and dusty. experiences of those who lived along the banks Additional items to bring: Plenty of water, Location: Osoyoos of this meandering river. See and hear the snacks and bagged lunch, Trekking Poles/ Meeting Place: Osoyoos Visitor Centre work that Friends of the Oxbows along with Walking Sticks; good hiking boots essential the Penticton Indian Band, Okanagan Nation Transportation: Carpool Alliance and the City of Penticton have done to Additional items to bring: Bagged Lunch, improve and clean up portions of this historic Long Pants waterway. If you are quiet and careful you may Tour 75 meet up with turtles, water fowl, deer, beavers and muskrats... but if not, you will need to 20 1 20 ALL “sneak back” later this summer to your favorite $ + spot to see these elusive critters. Last Call Birding Tour Location: Penticton 8 am to 11 am Meeting Place: Sudbury Beach Parking Lot, Penticton This is your last chance for birding during the Meadowlark Festival! Enjoy a fabulous Transportation: Carpool morning tour with naturalist Jim Shaver along Tour 77 White Lake Road, from Hwy 97 to the White $ Lake Basin. Take in the early morning sunshine 20 1 20 12+ 5 and join the awakening wildlife in a variety of $ + CT habitats including riparian areas, Ponderosa KVR Trail from Vancouver Ave Pine forest and sagebrush-grassland. to Lakeview Cemetery Location: White Lake Road 9 am to 11:30 am Meeting Place: Sudbury Beach parking lot KVR history buff Dave Morgenstern leads this Transportation: Carpool gentle walk along the KVR trail from Vancouver Avenue to Lakeside Cemetery. Along the way he’ll stop to talk about the history of the railway including the engineer in charge of building it, the train wreck of 1949, sink holes, underground tunnels, goldmines and more. Location: Penticton Meeting Place: Penticton Marina parking lot Transportation: Carpool

22 Get your MNF raffle tickets for your chance to win one of three awesome prizes!!! 1st prize: Westjet roundtrip flight for two; value $2500 (regularly scheduled Westjet destinations only; excludes fees, taxes and surcharges) 2nd prize: Original watercolour painting of Meadowlark Festival 2019 artwork by Alex Fong; value $1850 3rd prize: $500 Burrowing Owl Estate Winery gift card (may be used in the wine shop, Sonora Room Restaurant or the Guest House) Tickets are $10 Draw Date: May 21, 2019 at 2 pm Cowork Penticton 1 in 500 Purchase your tickets chance to win!! online along with your Meadowlark tickets at www.meadowlarkfestival.ca or call 250-492-5275. 'ĂŵŝŶŐ>ŝĐĞŶĐĞηϭϭϯϭϵϬ

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Cover art by Alex Fong. Photographs by Caillum Smith (Preserved Light Photography), Drew Desharnais, A. Michael Bezener, Keith Baric, Lee McFadyen, Lisa Scott, Coral Brown and Ernst Schneider