The 14Th Annual Waterton Wildflower Festival

2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival

Welcome to the 14th Annual Waterton Wildflower Festival

Pasque flower, commonly known as Prairie Crocus with Hover Fly ~ © Ian Wilson - Waterton Wild

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome 3 Restoration Crew 7 Festival Special Events and Programs 10 Why is Waterton the Wildflower Capital of Canada? 3 Rejuvenating Flames 7 Festival at a Glance 12 John Russell 4 Get Up Close 8 Map of the Village of Waterton 13 Rare Plants of Waterton 5 Upgrading Facilities 8 Registration/Information 13 Protecting Landscapes 6 Fighting for Five Needle Pines 8 Festival Schedule 14 – 19 Authors at the Festival 6 Where the Wild Things Go: Wildlife Movement Project 9 Meet the Presenters 20 Turning the Tide Against Invasive Plants 6 Protecting the Park from Aquatic Invasive Species 9 What’s Next 22

~ 2 ~ Stop and Smell the Roses WELCOME Stop and smell the flowers, but please don’t pick them! We encourage you to get out and Thanks for coming to the 14th annual Waterton Wildflower explore the park during the festival, but please keep these important principles in mind. Festival! The Wildflower Festival was the 2016 finalist of Leave what you find. It’s OK to stop and smell the flowers, but please leave them (along the Alto Award in the category: Outstanding Sustainable with other natural objects) where you found them for the next visitor to enjoy. Please do Tourism. You are in for a treat as you wander the Wildflower not trim the vegetation surrounding your floral photo subjects. Take only pictures; leave Capital of Canada. only footprints. Respect the wildlife and give them space. Observe the wildlife from a distance and do not follow, approach or attempt to feed them. Even the most careful hik- The festival celebrates the values of this national park and ing boot placement can crush delicate greenery. Please stay on established trails on your helps participants to cherish the natural wonders that are journeys through the park. here.

As a program of The Waterton Park Community Association, the festival blooms a little bigger and brighter WHY IS WATERTON THE each year, and we must shout our thanks to wonderful community partners and supporters like Parks Canada, The Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Chamber of Commerce and other local groups. WILDFLOWER CAPITAL OF Come to the Waterton Community Centre, visit the Artisan Fair and meet other nature CANADA? lovers. Everyone who attends the Wildflower Festival must ask this question at least once! Every year you can discover the answer a little more fully for yourself, but here’s a place to start Mariajose Martinez to understand the reasons we can make this claim. Michaela Enzmann Marie Grant Geologic events resulted in Waterton Lakes National Park being a mountainous area that Frank Weinschenk directly abutts the prairies. The park is located at a point where prairie plants from the Great Plains to the east overlap with Rocky Mountain plants from the north, and inter- New This Year mountain plants from the west. Forty-five different vegetation communities occur in the park including grasslands, shrublands, wetlands, lakes, spruce-fir, pine and aspen forests, CELEBRATING CANADA 150 and alpine meadows. This diversity provides suitable habitat for over 1,000 species of vas- To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, cular plants within the park’s boundaries. The overall plant community ranges in size from entry will be free to all Parks Canada’s special places in 2017. microscopic aquatic diatoms to stately Douglas fir trees.

Parks Canada is looking forward to welcoming more visitors to our national parks, and expect popular parks such as Waterton 15 min. from Waterton Park Lakes National Park to be very busy this year. To ensure visitors have an enjoyable 525 Main St. (Hwy. 5) and safe experience, Parks Canada encourages planning trips well in advance. Visitors should book camping and accommodations, and check 511.alberta.ca before setting off Mountain View, AB T0K 1N0 for current road conditions in the park. Waterton Lakes’ Facebook (www.facebook.com/ [email protected] WatertonLakes NP) and Twitter (@WatertonLakesNP) will have updated information as bearcountryinnandsuites.ca well. To avoid experiencing delays, the best times to visit Waterton this year will be during weekdays, not weekends (especially long weekends). Visiting in early morning and late 403-653-1992 afternoon/evenings will provide more parking and less traffic congestion, and better light A Clean, Quiet, Affordable Little Inn, At The Historic Barn Store for photography. • Full Kitchen Suites sleep 3–9 guests A Gift, Grocery, • Regular Rooms w/1 to 2 queen beds • Open Year Round / off-season rates Get Involved in the Festival Fuel, Food & • Outdoor Pinic areas w/ BBQ grills Ice Cream Stop • Continental Breakfast • Satellite TV This year we are opening up for volunteers. There are various opportunities to get involved • Internet WiFi • Multi-Level Scenic Views and to learn more about the Wildflower Festival and the Wildlife Weekend. Express your interest as soon as possible regarding the following opportunities.

• Distribution of information material before and during the festival. The first FREE • Assisting with set up/taking down of signage, chairs and tables, and other materials community owned before and after the festival. Wi-Fi network in • Assisting at reception and registration desk: greeting and assisting the public attending all of Canada’s Connect to the event, patrons sign-in, waiver signing, ticket sales, merchandise sales, helping National Parks WatertonFREEWIFI with car pooling, accompanying groups to event locations, monitor coffee table and fill up if necessary, clean-up after an event. or Subscribe to Waterton WiFiber • Oversee kids activities. [email protected] • Act as a mascot (be dressed up as a flower and engage and inform the public and busi- WCBN WC N 403.859.2042B ness owners in Waterton townsite). KEEPING YOU Contact Michaela at [email protected] CONNECTED!

~ 3 ~ 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival JOHN RUSSELL 1944 – 2016 On the snowy Thanksgiving morning of October 10, a river of ravens swept down and carried John Russell’s precious soul to Valhalla. A lover of nature and a studied observer of its ways, John Russell spent his 72 years in a long embrace with the natural world. He spent much of his life rooted in the landscape of the Waterton area. But he also studied the caribou of Canada’s north. Biologist Ron Jakimchuk writes, “I hired John as a biologist in 1971 into my company, Renewable Resources Consulting Services, to join a study of the Porcupine caribou herd in northern Yukon. ... During the course of our relationship we became friends as well as colleagues and shared many a day afield flying surveys, or living in a wall tent at -30 degrees on a caribou study north of Grande Cache.” Ron continues, “I learned a lot from John and his deep knowledge of the natural world, and a lot about what a fine man he was – trustworthy, capable and thoughtful. His powers of observation were enhanced, I’m sure, by his lifelong spiritual quest. His personality combined his aesthetic appreciation and technical skill as a biologist. He was student of everything in the natural world. “One of his significant achievements while employed by my company was the census of the George River caribou herd in northern Quebec at a historic high of some 750,000 animals, and today a mere remnant. That work, among his many other contribu- tions, will remain as an important milestone in the history of arctic caribou populations.”

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg, who has studied the interconnectedness of wolves, elk, grassland and fire in Waterton for the past 10 years says, “You taught us that life and death are part of the same continuum, whether thinking ecologically when examining the fresh carcass of a wolf-killed elk on the prairie, or when considering our human lives meta- physically. ... On a finer scale, you taught me and my field crew to appreciate the beauty of an intact prairie by patiently helping us identify native grasses, taking special zeal in showing us how to parse the taxonomy of the more obscure ones.”

John Russell was generous with his deep knowledge of the region. As a respected field guide, an engaging teacher and a popular speaker, outings with John were cherished inspirational experiences. He was gentle and kind, inquisitive and joyful. To go for even a short walk with John in this area that he knew so well was a privilege that will not be forgotten. He seemed to know every blade of grass and flower intimately and where they would appear from year to year in the eternal cycle of life. Ron Jakimchuk concludes, “Here was a man who, in the 21st century, could darn his own socks, sew on a button, write a book on caribou, share mystical experiences, and build a bathtub for grizzly bears.” And that laugh, what a laugh.

John was a cornerstone of both the Wildflower and Wildlife Festivals. His presence will be felt through time as each year we celebrate the wonders of Waterton’s natural world.

John ~ © Stephen Harrington Photography ~ http://shphotography.myportfolio.com

I learned a lot from John and his deep knowledge of the natural world, and a lot about what a fine man he was – trustworthy, capable and thoughtful. “ His powers of observation were enhanced, I’m sure, by his lifelong spiritual quest. His personality combined his aesthetic appreciation and technical skill as a biologist. He was student of everything in the natural world. ~ 4 ~ ” RARE PLANTS OF WATERTON Waterton Lakes National Park is home to many provincially, globally and nationally rare plant species. Watch List Plants Nationally Rare These species are common in WLNP and the immediate (N1 or N2) (based on 1997 data) Did You Know….* region but provincially, nationally, and in some cases, globally are uncommon or rare. These species are suffi- Gyer’s onion - Allium geyeri • There are four different ecoregions in ciently common in the WLNP area that they are not being Jones’ columbine - Aquilegia jonesii Waterton Lakes National Park (parkland, tracked in Alberta. However, they have been placed on a Long-leaved arnica - Arnica longifolia montane, subalpine, and alpine). Watch List for Alberta to recognise their restricted geo- Ascending moonwort - Botrychium ascendens • There are 45 vegetation communities graphic range: Dainty moonwort - Botrychium crenulatum in the park, 16 of which are considered Western moonwort - Botrychium hesperium significant because they are rare, or Pathfinder - Adenocaulon bicolor Waterton moonwort - Botrychium x watertonense fragile and threatened. Yellow angelica - Angelica dawsonii Large-flowered brickellia - Brickellia grandiflora • More than 50% of all wildflower species Elegant aster - Aster engelmannii Blackened sedge - Carex epapillosa found in Alberta grow in Waterton Lakes Oregon grape - Berberis repens Payson’s sedge - Carex paysonis National Park. Woodland brome - Bromus vulgaris Yellow paintbrush - Castilleja cusickii • 104 species of plants in Waterton are Thorough-wax - Bupleurum americanum Small-flowered hawksbeard - Crepis occidentalis listed as rare in Alberta. Of those, 28 are Mariposa lily - Calochortus apiculatus Rocky Mountain douglasia - Douglasia montana found only in the Waterton area. Elk sedge - Carex geyeri Dense-leaved draba - Draba densifolia (see list) Stiff yellow paintbrush - Castilleja lutescens Willowherb - Epilobium mirabile • Three of the park’s flower species are Snowbrush - Ceanothus velutinus Front Range fleabane - Erigeron lackschewitzii globally rare. (see list) Alpine spring beauty - Claytonia megarhiza Dwarf fleabane - Erigeron radicatus • 38 of the park’s flower species are Douglas hawthorn - Crataegus douglasii Gayophytum - Gayophytum racemosum nationally rare. (see list) Hooker’s fairybells - Disporum hookeri Mountain hollyhock - Iliamna rivularis • A number of species that are common in Mountain gentian - Gentiana calycosa Bolander’s quillwort - Isoetes bolanderi Waterton and the immediate region, are Woollen breeches - Hydrophyllum capitatum Dwarf lewisia - Lewisia pygmaea uncommon or rare elsewhere. Sandberg’s wild parsley - Lomatium sandbergii Prairie lupine - Lupinus lepidus Smooth woodrush - Luzula hitchcockii Showy oniongrass - Melica spectabilis Nuttall’s sandwort - Minuartia nuttallii Baby-blue-eyes - Nemophila breviflora * from www.pc.gc.ca/waterton Western sweet cicely - Osmorhiza occidentalis Pygmy poppy - Papaver pygmaeum Mountain-lover - Pachystima myrsinites Lyall’s scorpionweed - Phacelia lyallii Blue beardtongue - Penstemon albertinus Ninebark - Physocarpus malvaceus Large-flowered beardtongue - Penstemon lyallii Slender knotweed - Polygonum engelmannii Bracken fern - Pteridium aquilinum Purple rattlesnake-root - Prenanthes sagittata Sticky currant - Ribes viscosissimum Alpine buttercup - Ranunculus verecundus Merten’s saxifrage - Saxifraga mertensiana Few-leaved ragwort - Senecio cymbalarioides Narrow-petaled stonecrop - Sedum stenopetalum American chickweed - Stellaria americana Arctic butterweed - Senecio conterminus Blunt-sepaled starwort - Stellaria obtusa Beargrass - Xerophyllum tenax Umbellate starwort - Stellaria umbellata Alpine townsendia - Townsendia condensata Mountain trisetum - Trisetum montanum Globally Rare Awnless trisetum - Trisetum wolfii Canary violet - Viola praemorsa var. linguaefolia (G1 or G2) (based on 1997 data) Scented Pussytoes - Antennaria aromatica Peculiar Moonwort - Botrychium paradoxum Three-lobed Fleabane - Erigeron trifidus

A “focused” attendee during one of the sessions at last year’s ~ 5 ~ festival. 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival

PROTECTING AUTHORS AT THE LANDSCAPES FESTIVAL The Festival is honoured to have several authors as presenters. Come see the books at the For thousands of years, Indigenous people visited the Waterton area to hunt, fish, and Waterton Community Centre and possibly get the authors to sign your copy of their books. gather plants. Archaeologists have found evidence of their encampments throughout the park. Fredrick W. Godsal, a Pincher Creek rancher, was the first to recommend the estab- Garden columnist and horticulturist, Lyndon lishment of what is now Waterton Lakes National Park. The original park became Canada’s Penner has the perfect book for the Festival, 4th national park in 1895, protecting the lakes and spectacular scenery in a 140 square Native Plants for the Short Season Yard. Don’t kilometre (54 square mile) area. Today, the park is 505 square kilometres (195 square miss out on one of Lyndon’s field sessions or miles). perhaps take in his early morning hike Wildflowers at Sunrise. Although the park is small, many significant features are protected within its boundaries. This includes some of the oldest mountains in the Rockies, unique geological features, critical wildlife corridors, a rich cultural history, and a diversity of flora and fauna. Authors, Jacinthe Lavoie and Ian Wilson also Across the border to the south is Glacier National Park in Montana. Together, the parks have some great books perfect for Waterton, form the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which “Waterton Wild”. Come hear their evening ensures and celebrates cooperation between jurisdictions. West of Waterton is Akamina- presentation on Monday June 19th at the Kishinena Provincial Park and the Flathead Provincial Forest in British Columbia. North Falls Theatre at 7:30pm which is open to all and east of the park are ranchlands, provincial forestry lands and the Blackfoot Nation. or register to take in one of the several field Landowners, Indigenous peoples, municipal, provincial, and state governments as well as sessions they lead through out the week. many non-profit organizations are working together to develop cooperative land manage- Charlie Russell, local naturalist known for his study of grizzlies, has written ment strategies to protect not only the park, but also the surrounding landscapes. books including Grizzly Season. He has also been the subject of two docu- mentaries, Walking with Giants and Bear Man of Kamchatka. Come meet Charlie and get a signed copy of one of his books.

TURNING THE TIDE Clean • Simple • Affordable AGAINST INVASIVE PLANTS Non-native plants are those that were brought here from somewhere else. Many are a threat to the natural environment as they can quickly invade and out-compete native species. Because they have been introduced and are not growing in their native environ- 208 Mount View Road ment, few natural controls such as insects, disease and predators limit their spread. Some non-native species even secrete poisons from their roots that kill or displace native plants. Waterton Park, AB T0K 2M0 There are more than 100 non-native plants identified in Waterton Lakes National Park. T 403-859-2366 As native plants are reduced, the quality of wildlife habitat is affected. As prolific seed pro- www.BearMountainMotel.com ducers, non-native species have the potential to spread locally, regionally and even across continents. Control of these species is one of the most urgent concerns in protecting Waterton’s wonderful wildflowers. If you’d like to help Parks Canada control non-native species by adopting a patch, please see “Get Up Close” for volunteer opportunities.

In 2016, Parks Canada announced the Blakiston Fan in Waterton Lakes National Park was identified as critical habitat under the Species at Risk Act to protect the Endangered half-moon hairstreak butterfly. Characteristics of this butterfly’s critical habitat include larval host plants for breeding, nectar host plants for food, and other physical features essential for the butterfly’s life cycle completion. Larval host plants on the Blakiston Fan T-Shirts & Sweatshirts include the silky lupine and silvery lupine, and nectar host plants include yellow buckwheat Unique Jewellery and Missouri goldenrod. A recovery strategy for the butterfly is in place with the goals of Canadian Gifts reducing the spread of invasive non-native species such as spotted knapweed. You can Maple Syrup help by staying on established trails and roadways in the Blakiston Fan. Books of all Kinds These 12, the ‘dirty dozen,’ are the most invasive and easily identifiable. Keep a look out for Main Street, Waterton Park, Alberta these species. Report their location to the Festival Headquarters. t 403.859.2361

~ 6 ~ Invasives REJUVENATING FLAMES Managing park ecosystems requires adaptability, good science, and lateral thinking. Management strategies change as our understanding of the workings of ecosystems increases. One strategy is the reintroduction of fire into the landscape.

When Waterton Lakes National Park was established in 1895, society viewed fire as destructive

B. Rice | The Nature Conservancy Nature The | Rice B. www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/bioweb Canada Parks and a great deal of effort went o Leafy Spurge o Yellow Chamomile o Orange Hawkweed ~ Euphorbia esula ~ Anthemis tinctoria ~ Hieracium aurantiacum into preventing and extinguish- ing grassland and forest fires. The result was that an estimated 30 per cent of the park’s grasslands were lost to the spread of shrubs and trees. The remaining grasslands built up a heavy load of dead and dry material. Parks Canada Parks Canada Parks Hill Marnie o Baby’s Breath o Dalmatian toadflax o Yellow Hawkweed Now, science and knowledge of traditional practices have helped us realize that fire is ~ Gypsophila paniculata ~ Linaria angustifolia ~ Hieracium spp. an essential part of the ecosystem. Parks Canada carries out prescribed fires to restore native vegetation. The dead and dry material in the grasslands becomes rich ash, which feeds renewed plant growth. Burning the dead grass and branches also reduces the risk of uncontrolled, damaging wildfires, which could threaten people and facilities in the park and on our neighbours’ ranchlands.

In April 2017, Parks Canada successfully ignited 700 hectares in the Eskerine prescribed fire to restore native prairie by reducing aspen and evergreen expansion onto grasslands. In 2016, fire management specialists continued this important work in the Blakiston Valley Parks Canada Parks Brown Michael ESRD o Spotted Knapweed o Scentless Chamomile o Wild Caraway and on Sofa Mountain to restore whitebark pine habitat. Last fall, Parks Canada planted ~ Centaurea maculosa ~ Tripleurospermum inodorum ~ Carum carvi 1,000 disease-resistant seedlings on Sofa Mountain. Staff planted the seedlings in an area burned by prescribed fire (see “Fighting for Five Needle Pines” for more on this exciting project).

Trained fire management specialists carry out these prescribed fires only when a set of predetermined conditions is met relating to weather, terrain, soil moisture, fire behav- iour, fire control, and smoke management. Parks Canada has over 30 years of experience reintroducing fires onto the landscape in national parks. Well-planned prescribed fires help sustain fire-dependent ecosystems. Photos courtesy Alberta Sustainable Resource Development unless otherwise noted. Development Alberta Resource Sustainable courtesy Photos Conservancy Nature Rice/The B. Canada Parks Canada Parks o St. John’s Wort o Blue Weed o Hound’s-Tongue ~ Hypericum perforatum ~ Echium vulgare ~ Cynoglossum officinale There are many other fascinating scientific activities taking place in Waterton Lakes National Park. To learn more, visit the website at www.parkscanada.ca/waterton and click on ‘Park Management.’ You can also attend the Waterton-Glacier Science and History Day on July 25, 2017, which is held in Glacier National Park this year, to learn more about cur- RESTORATION CREW rent and recent research projects in the two parks. Every summer, Parks Canada hires a crew whose job it is to scour the meadows, hillsides and roadsides in the park and identify and remove invasive species using a variety of techniques. Thanks to their hard work and dedication, Waterton’s wildflower legacy is being restored. The restoration crew and volunteers also gather seeds from native plants, propagate them and replant them into disturbed areas.

Restoration Crew ~ © Parks Canada Restoration Crew ~ © Parks Canada ~ 7 ~ 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival

Blakiston Falls viewing platform: Closed until further GET UP CLOSE notice Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta Seasonal Volunteer As of April 2017, the viewing platforms at Blakiston Falls remain closed for replacement No experience necessary until further notice. The Blakiston Valley Trail is open. Timing for this work is dependent on a number of factors, including weather. Confirmed dates will be communicated once Would you like a behind-the-scenes park experi- available. ence? Do you love the outdoors, wildflowers, wildlife and/or learning new technology? Would you like to contribute to the restoration, mon- Projects resulting in a minor impact itoring and presentation of native plants in the park? If so, volunteering is the perfect oppor- to visitors include: tunity for you. Boundary fence

Come join Parks Canada’s team of over 600 Hikers and horse users should exercise caution when using the Horseshoe Basin Trail and volunteers who donate their time and energy to Bison Paddock parking lot as debris from boundary clearing may be scattered on paths. help with planting native plants in restoration projects, native plant demonstration gardens, Staff Housing species counts, controlling non-native plants, Construction on the 100-block of Clematis Avenue and Windflower Avenue is continuing, seed collection and many non-plant projects. In to replace Parks Canada staff accommodation. 2016, Parks Canada had a record year for volun- Watering seedlings ~ © Parks Canada teers who doubled the contributed hours from Waterton Townsite Infrastructure Replacement the year before. Citizen science, the Christmas Bird Count and Adopt-a-Patch were among the most popular volunteer programs. Let’s do Cameron Falls Drive, Clematis Avenue South, Vimy Avenue and Harebell Road: The third it again in 2017! To celebrate Canada 150, Parks Canada is hosting two special BioBlitzes phase of upgrades to replace the main water and sewer lines, resurface roads and com- on butterflies and on mushrooms. plete sidewalk improvements will take place from October 2016 until November 2017. Temporary road closures will be necessary to complete portions of the work. For more information about individual and group volunteer projects, please visit www. parkscanada.ca/waterton-volunteer, phone 403-859-2224, or email [email protected]. Waterton Avenue: Due to parking upgrades, the community kitchen, picnic shelter and ca. On the website, you can sign up for a project or to receive e-mail notifications of volun- parking lots along the south end of Waterton Avenue is closed until further notice. teer news, projects and events. Updates will be issued as information is confirmed. Please consult the Waterton Lakes National Park website at www.parkscanada.ca/waterton for the latest updated UPGRADING FACILITIES information and a map of projects that may impact your visit. Potential Impacts on Visitor FIGHTING FOR FIVE Experience for Spring and Summer 2017 NEEDLE PINES The life cycle of the whitebark pine Some much-needed infrastructure work in Waterton Lakes National Park is taking place starts with a small seed, stashed by this spring and summer, which will result in improved visitor experiences. This information a nutcracker, which can grow into a is subject to change as project details are finalized, and the following is current as of April 20-metre-tall, 500-year-old tree. 25, 2017. Please check our website for updated project details at www.parkscanada.ca/ waterton and click “Parks Canada infrastructure program” under “Plan Your Visit”. Whitebark pine, a long-lived five-needle species, is challenged throughout Projects resulting in a closure or its Canadian range by a number of threats: the introduced pathogen having a major impact to visitors white pine blister rust, mountain pine beetle, fire suppression and climate include: change. It is listed as “endangered” under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) Cameron Lake Day Use Area: Closed until further as the Canadian population is in notice (expected opening Summer 2017) decline. Some stands in Waterton Lakes National Park have an 80 to Starting April 17, there will be no public access to Cameron Lake or the Carthew Alderson 90 per cent infection rate of invasive trailhead until construction is complete. Vehicles can access the Akamina Parkway up white pine blister rust. Whitebark pine to the Little Prairie Day-Use Area. From there, visitors can travel on foot to the Akamina is found in all the mountain national trailhead only via the Cameron Lake ski trail. We expect to have the Akamina Parkway parks - Waterton Lakes, Banff, open to Cameron Lake by the end of June and confirmed dates will be communicated once Kootenay, Yoho, Mount Revelstoke, available. Glacier, and Jasper – and Parks Canada teams are actively applying restoration techniques to improve the natural renewal of this species at risk.

~ 8 ~ Parks Canada protects seed- wildlife (mainly carnivores and ungulates) producing whitebark pine movement through this area. In order to trees that show resistance maintain their populations, it’s important to the introduced blister rust for wildlife to find food, flee from predators called ‘plus trees’. Natural and interact with each other. Researchers regeneration is enhanced are using a variety of information sources, by planting stock grown including remote cameras. from these ‘plus tree’ seeds. Some seedlings are also Because the cameras are near the com- inoculated with spores of a munity and trails, there may be some native fungus called ‘Siberian sensitivity regarding privacy. The cameras slippery jack’ which has a are primarily used for wildlife conservation symbiotic relationship with purposes, but images that show illegal pines and helps the young activities that may have serious impacts trees acquire nutrients. on wildlife, or put the safety of visitors at When applied to the roots risk may be used for law enforcement pur- of seedlings prior to plant- poses. Cameras are not located within the ing, the survival and health core of the community. Public notices will of those seedlings is greatly be posted at trail heads and other areas improved. where cameras are deployed. All images of people will be classified by number and Prescribed fire is also used type of use, then immediately deleted. to restore and improve whitebark pine habitat in We often share images of wildlife from remote camera projects on our website and social sub-alpine regions. These media. Check out our “Remote Camera Images” page on our website. They’re also the fires replicate natural condi- most liked and shared on our social media. We’re looking forward to getting some great tions under which whitebark new photos. pine previously evolved and thrived. The process removes competing vegetation and creates nutrient-rich habitat suitable for planting putatively blister rust-resistant whitebark pine seedlings. PROTECTING THE PARK Parks Canada planted 1,000 rust-resistant seedlings on Sofa Mountain in Waterton Lakes National Park in the fall of 2016. Staff planted the seedlings in an area burned by FROM AQUATIC INVASIVE prescribed fire earlier in the season. As a world leader in conservation, Parks Canada is committed to the long-term restoration and protection of whitebark pine. We will con- SPECIES tinue to research and monitor whitebark pine and use the results to help direct our future Parks Canada is protecting Waterton Lakes National Park’s aquatic environment from actions. aquatic invasive species. Starting in 2017, motorized and trailer launched boats are not permitted in Waterton Lakes National Park. Owners of human-powered watercraft must Parks Canada’s whitebark pine recovery effort in Waterton Lakes National Park is part of complete a mandatory self-inspection of their boat before entering park waters. The restoration initiatives taking place throughout other national parks and with cooperation self-inspection form will act as a permit, and watercraft users must ensure their permits from provincial, academic and international partners. Glacier National Park in Montana has are available for examination. Visitors complete the permit the first time they launch their been helping us by growing our whitebark pine seedlings for the past seven years – up human-powered watercraft in the park, but must comply with the permit conditions every to 6,000 seedlings so far! We also work with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, the United time they launch thereafter. States Forest Service and the British Columbia Forest Service. Parks Canada is using the self-inspection permit as a method to collect data and inform visitors on how to reduce the risk of spreading invasive mussels.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS Roving staff will answer questions and ensure visitors understand the inspection process. Since the permit is a legal requirement, Park Wardens will be checking that visitors com- GO: WILDLIFE MOVEMENT pleted the self-inspection and will take appropriate action as necessary. PROJECT This permit is a key step to prevent introduction of invasive mussels into the Waterton Lakes. More information is available at: Waterton Lakes National http://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/waterton/visit/comportements-guidelines Park has started a five-year research program to gather information on wildlife movement around the perimeter of the Waterton Park community and between the Waterton and Akamina valleys. The goal of the project is to provide information to help Parks Canada make decisions regarding

Remote camera - bear family ~ © Parks Canada ~ 9 ~ 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival

2017 Exhibitors include: FESTIVAL SPECIAL Wild about Flowers (Native Alberta Wildflowers - Sat-Sun) Pincher Creek Pottery (Handmade domestic earthenware pottery – Fri-Sun) EVENTS AND PROGRAMS Thingmaker (Jewelery from upcycled metal and garden art – Fri-Sat) Early Bird Chorus Splish Splash Soaps n’Stuff (Natural soaps, bath and body care products, candles, wooden June is a lovely time to see the wildflowers of Waterton. It is also a good time to listen craft – Fri-Sun) to and watch the bird life of the Park. We invite you to set your alarm for 6:30 am so you Rob Harding (Feather artwork and earrings – Fri-Sat) can get up and enjoy the glorious sound of the Early Bird Chorus. If you aren’t a morning Under the Arch Studio (Felted art work, soaps, prairie flower honey, Waterton Wildflower person, this is your chance to find out what you’ve been missing. Trust us, you won’t be Art – Sat-Sun) disappointed. Bird and Bee Houses (Sat-Sun) Knot & Burl Woodworks (Wood rings, wood turned pens, wood bowls – Sat-Sun) Jami (Hand-made wallets, change purses, repurposed materials - Sun) Wildrose Heritage Seed Company (Heirloom Vegetable Seeds – Fri-Sat) Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC – Fri-Sun) Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition (Fri-Sun + Mon-Tue) Wesley Harry, Native Art (Fri - Sun) There will be spare tables in the center of the Community Centre for everyone to use. Bring your lunch or just gather and have a chat with other participants and have coffee or tea. We want you to have a place to gather, gab and grab a thing or two from our local vendors. Ethnobotany Ethnobotany is the study of the traditional knowledge and uses of plants for food, shelter, medicine, poison and ceremony. Take part and learn about the Ethnobotany of the Cyndi Smith with Festival bird watchers. ~ © Jarom Scott Blackfoot people and gain insight on the importance of the native plants of this area on Saturday June 17th Blackfoot Ethnobotany Walk at Coppermine Creek. Also take part in a session with Brenda Holder, a professional interpretive guide, who has learned from Waterton Lakes Opera House research and from listening to her Métis elders about the traditional uses of plants. Sign up for one of Brenda’s Nature’s Medicine Cabinet - From Plants to slaves on Friday June This year, we have a great partner venue at the Waterton Lakes Opera House. Come and 16th or Monday June 19th, or her traditional beading workshop that celebrate the flowers enjoy some theatre style presentations by Roy Golsteyn and Carol Patterson. You won’t through traditional handiwork on Tuesday June 20th. want to miss out on watching Charlie Russell’s Bear Man of Kamchatka, after the show you can ask Charlie all your desired questions. PS. Don’t forget to buy popcorn from the concession! All Day Art Workshops This year we have not one world-renowned teacher, but we have two!!! Join Margaret Best Weekend Lunch for our all day session. This year Margaret is leading a three-day intermediate level workshop for more experienced artists. Brent Laycock will also be leading a “Get Wild” two-day Relish a delicious dish and gather and meet with old and new friends. The festival is offer- acrylic session. ing some great food on Saturday June 17th the Taco bar will be taking over the kitchen and ready to sell food. The Taco Bar brings traditional Mexican food to Waterton Lakes National Park. Their slow-cooked meats, sauces and salsas are all made from scratch, right in front An Appreciation for Nature of you in a kitchen not unlike the one in your home- albeit more colorful than your average kitchen but it’s real home cooking, no tex-mex here. Come and listen to a performance of a radio- style drama based on the life of work of On Sunday June 18th you don’t want to miss out on Lethbridge’s Umami Shop. Umami South Alberta’s conservationist-artist-writer Shop is a world grocerant offering international food and cooking classes along with our Annora Brown. 260 of her paintings, held in fresh open kitchen and made to order deli option. “Our mission is to increase your quality the Glenbow archives, have recently been of life through the exploration of food! Yum for everyone!” photographed, digitized and prints made available to the public. 200 of these are wildflowers from Southern Alberta. 30 are of the Artisan Fair Blackfoot people and their culture. The play This fair is part of the Wildflower Festival. Come and treat yourself to nature inspired was written and is narrated by Joyce Sasse. products and artwork or find a unique gift for your loved ones at the Waterton Artisan Fair. Presenters are Doris Blackburn, Susan Enjoy browsing through locally produced jewelry, artwork, pottery, natural body care prod- Vogelaar and Gerry Alex (all from Pincher ucts, honey, wooden crafts, bird and bee houses and native Alberta plants for your garden. Creek, AB). Join in for this sponsored event Meet the artisans and craftsmen. Nature and conservation groups will inform about their by the Nature Conservancy of Canada at the work. Falls theatre at 7:30 pm on Sunday June 18th. It is open to all. See www.annorabrown.ca

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~ 11 ~ 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival 7:30 pm to 9:30 7:30 pm to 5:00 3:00 pm to 5:00 2:00 pm to 3:30 2:00 pm to 4:30 1:30 pm to 4:15 1:15 pm to 5:00 1:00 pm to 4:00 1:00 9:00 am to 4:00 9:00 am to 5:15 8:15 am to 3:00 8:00 am to 9:00 6:30 12:45 pm to 12:45 pm to 12:00 9:30 am to 9:30 am to 9:15 am to 9:00 am to 8:30 am to 8:00 am to 7:30 am to 7:00 4:00pm to 4:00pm 10:00 PM 12:30 am 12:15 am 11:30 am 11:30 am 11:00 am 10:30 am 10:00 am 2017 WATERTON WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE A AT FESTIVAL WILDFLOWER WATERTON 2017 3:45pm 1:30pm 6:00pm Time Date pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm pm am 15X Night Sky Photography 15D Extrordinary Flowers 15G Bears and Blossoms and Bears 15G 15C ABC’s of Wildflower 15U Movie -‐ The Artist's 15Q Living Dangerously 15A Early Bird Chorus -‐ Wildflowers along the 15J Wildflowers from Wildflowers 15J Birds of the Montane -‐ a Walk with Charlie Traditional Dancing 15B Photographing 15B Photographing 15R Beaver Bundle at the Maskinonge 15V First Nations 15L First Nations 15P Wild Edibles 15P Garden (90min) in Easy Places Easy in Bellevue Trail Identification Story Telling Story 2017-‐06-‐15 Horseback Thursday 16F Nature's Medicine Cabinet -‐ 16V Flowers of Waterton & the 16J First Nations Story Telling 16P A Walk with the Authors 16U Bear Man of Kamchatka 16X Night Sky Photography Butterflies Who Love Them 16D Invigorate Your senses Your Invigorate 16D 16G Wildflowers along the along Wildflowers 16G Wildflower Photography 16B Controlling Light for Light Controlling 16B Cooking Class for Adults Birds of the Waterways 16A Early Bird Chorus -‐ 16R 100 Species Walk From Plants to Salves Prince of Wales Trail with Charlie Russell 16M First Nations 16C Wild Edibles 16C 2017-‐06-‐16 Friday Waterton Wildflower Festival 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival 17D Capturing Wildflowers Wildflowers Capturing 17D 17M Movie -‐ The Artist's Garden (90min) and Stunning Vistas and Stunning -‐ Photo Workshop 17K Blackfoot Ethnobotany Walk at Please click here for on-line reservations. 17J Wildflowers from Horseback from Wildflowers 17J 17C The Wild Lilies of Waterton Lilies Wild The 17C 17U The Beautiful Chemicals in Beautiful 17U The 17V Night Sky Presentation 17A Wildflowers at Sunrise 17R The Many Wildflowers 17P Bee or Butterfly House Butterfly or Bee 17P Beautiful Flowers (90min) 17G Bears and Blossoms and Bears 17G Three Day Advanced Workshop Cooking Class for Kids -‐ a Walk with Charlie 4:45 am to 7:45 am 4:45 of the Rose Family Coppermine Creek 17T First Nations Building for Kids 2017-‐06-‐17 Saturday 16H Botanical Art [email protected] www.WatertonWildFlowers.com 17E Along the Oil Basin Trail with Valorie 18B The Art of Photographing Wildflowers 18N Solar Stargazing 18N Solar 18U Charles Waterton -‐ The man who Waterton Charles 18U inspired Charles Darwin! (60min) Charles inspired 18J Wildflowers from Horseback from Wildflowers 18J 18S The Beautiful Chemicals in Beautiful 18S The Interpreter of the Foothills 18L Bee or Butterfly House Butterfly or Bee 18L Beautiful Flowers (90min) 18G Extrordinary Flowers 18Q Connecting with the 18D Living Dangerously Living 18D 18K Wildflowers of the of Wildflowers 18K 18M Where the Prairie Meets the Mountains 18C Wildflowers 101 Wildflowers 18C 18V Annora Brown: 18T Learn to Drum Learn 18T Redrock Parkway 18R Hawk's Nest Building for Kids Natural World Natural in Easy Places Easy in 2017-‐06-‐18 Sunday 18P Wild Edibles 18P 19B Capturing Wildflowers and Stunning Vistas -‐ and Wildflowers Capturing 19B Flowers in Easy Places 19P A Walk with the 19C Where the Prairie Meets the Mountains 19D Extrordinary Extrordinary 19D Authors 19Q Vistas and Landscape Stories 19T The Sights from Bear’s Hump from Sights 19T The 19V Waterton Wild Presentation Wild Waterton 19V -‐ What Makes Waterton Unique 19F Nature's Medicine Cabinet -‐ 19K The Geology of Waterton Geology The 19K 19U Bear Man of Kamchatka 19L Invigorate Your Senses Your 19L Invigorate 19G Bears and Blossoms and Bears 19G 19R 100 Species Walk From Plants to Salves -‐ a Walk with Charlie with Charlie Russell of the Bertha Trail Bertha the of Photo Workshop 2017-‐06-‐19 Monday Wildflowers – A Hike Up 19H “Getting Wild With Acrylics” 19E In Search of Search 19E In Sofa Mountain Two Day Workshop 19N "Photographic Finesse" -‐ Two Day Workshop 20D 100 Species Species 100 20D A Memorial Walk for John Russell Please come to Falls Theatre Please come to Opera House. 20M Movie -‐ The Artist's Garden 20B Photographing Wildflowers Wildflowers 20B Photographing 20C The Geology of Waterton -‐ Geology The 20C What Makes Waterton Unique 20G Wildflowers along the along Wildflowers 20G Walk along the Bellevue Trail Bellevue along the 20K Wildflowers 101 Wildflowers 20K Prince of Wales Trail 20J Learn to Drum Learn 20J 20T Hawks Nest -‐ 2017-‐06-‐20 Tuesday (90min) Design Workshop Beadwork and 20E Métis

~ 12 ~ To Park Entrance, Golf TOWNSITE RV PARK Course, Red Rock Parkway, AND CAMPGROUND Alpine Stables and Chief Mountain Highway REGISTRATION Update on Work in Waterton Lakes National Park Waterton Townsite Potential Impacts on Visitor Experience for Spring 2017 Before the Festival: April 1 – June 14, 2017 On-line at: www.watertonwildflowers.com

During the Festival: June 15 - 20th, 2017 Timing and impacts of these projects are subject to change. Please consult On-line at: www.watertonwildflowers.com www.parkscanada.gc.ca/waterton-construction for the latest construction or IN PERSON: At the Waterton Community information and suggestions for what to see and do. Centre - 201 Cameron Falls Drive

EMERALD BAY REMEMBER: Sessions fill up so it is best to register early.

Projects resulting in a closure or major impact: Projects resulting in a lesser impact: CANCELLATION POLICY: 48 hours notice. All programs will run rain or shine. Blakiston Falls Viewing Platform ! Boundary Fence ! Closed until further notice Hikers and horse users should exercise caution when Marina INFORMATION The viewing platforms at Blakiston Falls remain closed using the Horseshoe Basin Trail and Bison Paddock for replacement until further notice. The Blakiston Valley parking lot as debris may be scattered on paths. 3 WHERE TO MEET: Unless otherwise stated, meet your event leader at the Waterton Community Trail is open. ! Sta Housing Centre - 201 Cameron Falls Dr, 20 min prior to Cameron Lake Day Use Area ! event start time. (Washrooms available) ! Closed until further notice ! Construction on the 100-block of Clematis Avenue 2 CAR POOL EVENTS: The Wildflower Festival is a and is continuing to replace Parks car pool event. You may ride with someone else Starting April 17, there will be no public access to Canada staff accommodation. or drive your own vehicle. Cameron Lake or the Carthew Alderson trailhead 1 ! WHAT TO BRING: A daypack with a water bottle, Waterton Townsite Infrastructure 4 stopped at the Little Prairie Day Use Area. Visitors ! snack, sunscreen, a hat, bug spray, and a can travel on foot to the Akamina trailhead only via Replacement camera. the Cameron Lake ski trail. 5 Cameron Falls Drive, Clematis Avenue South, Vimy 6 WHAT TO WEAR: Sturdy walking shoes, a wind- Avenue and Harebell Road: The third phase of upgrades breaker and a hat are necessities. The terrain is Seasonal Closures uneven. Mountain weather is variable and can to replace the main water and sewer lines, resurface roads ! and complete sidewalk improvements will take place change quickly; be prepared for all conditions – Red Rock Parkway until November 2017. Temporary road closures will be sun, wind, rain…even snow! ! Closed until May 2017 necessary to complete portions of the work. PHOTOGRAPHY COURSES: digital and/or film cameras, tripod recommended, some walking The seasonal closure of the Red Rock Parkway to public Waterton Avenue: Due to parking upgrades, the involved. motor vehicles is in effect. Cyclists and pedestrians are community kitchen, picnic shelter and parking lots along ! welcome to recreate along the parkway as usual, but the south end of Waterton Avenue are closed until further WHERE TO STAY AND DINE: notice. ! should exercise caution. www.myWaterton.ca ! CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR NEW CLASSES AND UPDATES: www.WatertonWildflowers.com

PLEASE, no pets or unregistered individuals.

What’s New: April 1, 2017 For additional information call: 1-877-780-1998

www.parkscanada.gc.ca/waterton-construction 1 Festival Headquarters (Community Centre) 4 Waterton Lake Opera House 2 Lions Hall 5 RCMP 3 Administrative Building 6 Falls Theatre EMERGENCY PH # IN PARK 911 (Mention You’re in Waterton)

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with some flower basics on the ground 15U Movie - The Artist’s Garden followed by a leisurely ride that will (90min) Activity Level Descriptions take you into different habitats to view Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm dozens of different flower types. No riding Presenter: Buy Tickets at Opera House All: Activity may occur Moderate: Participants Challenging: Participants experience is necessary. Please register at Activity Level: ■ All indoors; minimal walking is must be sure footed, must be in good health, be Alpine Stables. Category: Documentary involved; some venues are able to ascend a path the mobile, and able to par- Cost: $90.00 Description: Following the smash hit wheelchair accessible. equivalent of a few flights ticipate in 3 – 5 hours of Painting the Modern Garden: Monet of stairs and walk on physical activity per day, 15L First Nations Traditional Dancing to Matisse from Season 3 comes a Easy: Participants must uneven surfaces up to 3 km the equivalent of walking Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 am new film based on the hugely popular be able walk the equivalent (2 miles) at a 3 kmph pace up to 8 km (5 miles) at a Presenter: Piikani First Nations exhibition “The Artist’s Garden: American of 5 city blocks on uneven (2 mph). 4 kph (2.5 mph) pace over Activity Level: ■ All Impressionism and the Garden Movement, ground, stand for up to an uneven ground. Category: First Nations 1887-1920” from the Florence Griswold hour, and get in and out of a motor vehicle easily. Description: Members of the Piikani First Museum in Connecticut, widely considered Nation will take you into their world of a home of American Impressionism. Taking color and sound with demonstrations of its lead from French artists like Renoir their traditional dancing. and Cézanne, the American impressionist Thursday, June 15 learn the art of wildflower identification Cost: Free movement followed its own path which during this hands-on flower walk. Build on over a thirty-year period reveals as much 15A Early Bird Chorus - Birds of the your knowledge and review the basics of 15P Wild Edibles about America as a nation as it does about flower identification using blossom, stem, Montane Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm its art as a creative power-house. It’s a and leaf features. You will also learn the Time: 6:30 am to 9:00 am Presenter: Valorie Webber story closely tied to a love of gardens and characteristics of different plant families, Presenter: Kim Pearson Activity Level: ■ Moderate a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly from Asters to Lilies, and discover which Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: Flora urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, plants grow in different habitats. Bring a Category: Fauna, Birding Description: Come seek out the things you gardens and famous locations throughout notebook, pencil & camera. Description: Rise and shine and enjoy the COULD eat if you had to under Valorie’s the United States, UK and France, this Cost: $45.00 most beautiful and melodic time of the knowledgeable guidance and those you mesmerizing film is a feast for the eyes. day. Join Kim at this bright hour to decipher should NOT! Cost: $10.00 Adult $7.00 Children 15D Extraordinary Flowers in Easy the chorus of bird songs. Bring binoculars, Cost: $45.00 Places warm clothing and caffeine. 15V First Nations Story Telling Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am Cost: $45.00 15Q Living Dangerously Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Presenter: Valorie Webber Time: 1:15 pm to 4:15 pm Presenter: Piikani First Nations ■ 15B Photographing Wildflowers along Activity Level: Easy Presenter: Lyndon Penner Activity Level: ■ All the Bellevue Trail Category: Flora Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: First Nations Description: Get to know Waterton’s Time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am Category: Flora Description: Listen to traditional stories beautiful wildflowers by venturing only Presenter: Ian Wilson Description: When asked about the most told by members of the Piikani First a few steps from your car. View many Activity Level: ■ Moderate dangerous things in the park, many people Nations in a traditional tepee. Learn how wonderful species in various areas and see Category: Photography (incorrectly) assume that it must be bears important Waterton and the surrounding what lies just off the roadside. Description: Join Ian Wilson, author and or cougars. The truth is that there are area is for the First Nations people. Please Cost: $45.00 photographer of Wildflowers of Waterton far more dangerous plants in the park register as capacity is limited. Park, for this hands-on workshop. Learn than there are animals. Join Lyndon for a Cost: Free 15G Bears and Blossoms - a Walk to capture the fine details of wildflowers fascinating session in which he will point with Charlie along the Bellevue Trail. Camera settings, out some of the most poisonous and 15X Night Sky Photography Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am use of depth of field to highlight your deadly plants in the park; some of which Time: 10:00 PM Presenter: Charlie Russell subject, the benefits of a tripod, use are among the most poisonous in Canada! Presenter: Alan Dyer Activity Level: ■ Moderate of lighting and composition and other You’ll be amazed at all the leafy green Activity Level: ■ Easy Category: Fauna, Flora close-up techniques will be discussed while things growing in the woods that could Category: Photography Description: Discover the role bears play photographing wildflowers. Discover how easily kill you... Description: Learn to shoot Waterton by in the health of wildflower populations best to use the settings on your camera for Cost: $45.00 night; capture unique images of moonlit and hear stories and experiences of world the perfect image, and benefit from Ian’s landscape with stars in the sky above. renowned bear expert Charlie Russell as years of photographic experience. Bring a 15R Beaver Bundle at the Alberta astrophotographer Alan Dyer he shares his knowledge and viewpoint on tripod. Maskinonge leads you on a photo trek to shoot in bears and humans. Cost: $45.00 Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm the twilight, under the moon and stars. $59.00 Cost: Presenter: Ryan Heavy Head Warning - this session may go to midnight; 15C ABC’s of Wildflower Identification Activity Level: ■ Moderate dress warmly. Participants should bring 15J Wildflowers from Horseback Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am Category: First Nations, Fauna a DSLR or high quality mirrorless camera Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am Presenter: Jacinthe Lavoie Description: Ksisskstaki is the Blackfoot with a fast f/2.8 wide angle lens, a sturdy Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds Activity Level: ■ Moderate word for beaver. Be sure to check out this tripod and remote cable release for Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: Flora talk with Ryan on the importance of the triggering the shutter. Also, bring a red Category: Flora Description: One flower, two flowers, beaver to Waterton culturally and as an flashlight for use at night. Description: What could be more fun red flowers, blue flowers. Do you want ecosystem manager. Cost: $45.00 than riding a horse and flower watching to know more? If so, join Jacinthe Lavoie, Cost: $45.00 at the same time? This program will start author of Wildflowers of Waterton Park to

~ 14 ~ Friday, June 16 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

16F Nature’s Medicine Cabinet - From 16M First Nations Cooking Class for 16V Flowers of Waterton & the Friday, June 16 Plants to Salves Adults Butterflies Who Love Them 16A Early Bird Chorus - Birds of the Time: 8:15 am to 5:15 pm Time: 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Waterway Presenter: Brenda Holder Presenter: Piikani First Nations Presenter: Lyndon Penner Activity Level: ■ Moderate Activity Level: ■ All Activity Level: ■ All Time: 6:30 am to 9:00 am Category: First Nations, Flora, Spiritual Category: First Nations Category: Presentation Presenter: Kim Pearson Description: This workshop will take place Description: Do you ever wonder what the Description: This is a story of love and Activity Level: ■ Moderate both in the field and in the classroom and First Nations ate? Learn from the Piikani survival in the Alberta Rockies, full of Category: Fauna, Birding will focus on the Traditional Use of Plant First Nation to make Bannok and hear colourful characters, unlikely alliances, and Description: Rise and shine and enjoy Medicines and how they fit in our world stories of traditional foods that are part of heart-stopping drama in the high alpine the most beautiful and melodic time of today. You will learn plant identification the First Nations diet. Learn the recipe and meadows! Obviously we are talking about the day. Join Kim at this bright hour to and plant use, including edibles (teas, make the this wonderful treat at home. the wildflowers and the butterflies who decipher the chorus of bird songs. Bring syrups) and medicines (salves, poultices, Cost: $45.00 care for them! Although often dismissed binoculars, warm clothing and caffeine. liniments); you will also learn the methods as being merely pretty things to look Cost: $45.00 of creating these products and have the 16P A Walk with the Authors at, butterflies are much more than they 16B Controlling Light for Wildflower opportunity of making some to take home. Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm seem. They provide a crucial link in the Photography We will discuss the ethics of harvesting Presenter: Ian Wilson & Jacinthe Lavoie food chain with their caterpillars feeding and plant respect. All plant material will be Activity Level: ■ Moderate many birds and other insects, and they Time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am gathered before the festival and provided Category: Flora themselves fulfilling an incredibly crucial Presenter: Ian Wilson for the participants. Lunch is not provided. Description: Take a walk with authors and role as pollinators. Many mountain plants Activity Level: ■ Moderate Cost: $99.00 photographer of “Wildflowers of Waterton are dependent upon them for survival, and Category: Photography Park” and catch their contagious passion they engage in interesting, complex, and Description: Join Ian Wilson, author and 16G Wildflowers Along the Prince of for the beauty of Waterton Park and their sometimes puzzling behavior. Join Lyndon photographer of Wildflowers of Waterton Wales Trail feelings about wild places in general. for an introduction to these small but Park during this hands-on workshop. Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am Participants will have an opportunity to critical citizens of the park and be amazed! Learn to control light for wildflower Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds glean more knowledge about flowers Cost: By Donation photography! Participants will have an Activity Level: ■ Moderate from Jacinthe and pick up tips about opportunity to use reflectors, diffusers, Category: Flora photographing the flowering gems they 16X Night Sky Photography LED lights, on-camera flash, and off- Description: Discover the amazing variety see along the way. Time: 10:00 PM camera flash while photographing flowers. of wildflowers that inhabit the different Cost: $55.00 Presenter: Alan Dyer We will also review the benefits of a tripod, habitats surrounding this landmark; hear Activity Level: ■ Easy the use of depth of field to highlight your of the history and delight in the views. 16R 100 Species Walk Category: Photography subject, composition and other close-up Cost: $45.00 Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm Description: Learn to shoot Waterton by techniques. Bring a tripod. Presenter: Valorie Webber night; capture unique images of moonlit Cost: $45.00 16H Botanical Art - Three Day Activity Level: ■ Moderate landscapes with stars in the sky above. 16C Wild Edibles Advanced Workshop Category: Flora Alberta astrophotographer Alan Dyer Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Description: Waterton is wonderfully rich leads you on a photo trek to shoot in Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am Presenter: Margaret Best with a diversity of wildflower species. On the twilight, under the moon and stars. Presenter: Valorie Webber Activity Level: ■ All this walk, come search for and identify 100 Warning - this session may go to midnight; Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: Art species from A-Z with Valorie. dress warmly. Participants should bring Category: Flora Description: Join renowned artist Margaret Cost: $45.00 a DSLR or high quality mirrorless camera Description: Come seek out the things you Best for a three day in-depth workshop on with a fast f/2.8 wide angle lens, a sturdy COULD eat if you had to under Valorie’s drawing and painting using graphite and 16U Bear Man of Kamchatka tripod and remote cable release for knowledgeable guidance and those you watercolours or coloured pencils. Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm triggering the shutter. Also, bring a red should NOT! Cost: $299.00 Presenter: Charlie Russell flashlight for use at night. Cost: $45.00 Location: Opera House Cost: $45.00 ■ 16D Invigorate Your Senses 16J First Nations Story Telling Activity Level: All Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am Category: Documentary Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am Presenter: Piikani First Nations Description: Join Charlie Russell in Presenter: Lyndon Penner Activity Level: ■ All watching ‘The Bear Man of Kamchatka’. A Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: First Nations 2006 BBC documentary about Charlie’s Category: Spiritual Description: Listen to traditional stories incredible work with grizzly bears. See how Description: It is often remarked that told by members of the Piikani First he introduced wild grizzly bear cubs back Waterton is a visual feast, but have you Nations in a traditional tepee. Learn how into the wilderness. After this film you will ever thought about indulging your other important Waterton and the surrounding look at bears differently. Following the senses here? Join Lyndon for a session that area is for the First Nations people. Please movie you can ask Charlie Russell all of will cater to all the wondrous and varied register as capacity is limited. your desired questions. sensations that the park has to offer. You’ll Cost: Free Cost: $20.00; Up to 18: $10 certainly see a lot of flowers, but you will also be invited to listen closely to the wind in the trees, smell the blossoms, and touch and taste them. For those who are interested in a more tactile and intimate connection with the earth, this will be a terrific experience. Cost: $45.00 ~ 15 ~ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Saturday, June 17 Sunday, June 18 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

17E Along the Oil Basin Trail with 17M Movie - The Artist’s Garden 17T First Nations Cooking Class for Saturday, June 17 Valorie (90min) Kids 17A Wildflowers at Sunrise Time: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Time: 12:00 am to 1:30 pm Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Presenter: Valorie Webber Presenter: Buy Tickets at Opera House Presenter: Piikani First Nations Time: 4:45 am to 7:45 am Activity Level: ■ Challenging Activity Level: ■ All Activity Level: Age range 7-14 Presenter: Lyndon Penner Category: Flora Category: Documentary Category: First Nations Activity Level: ■ Moderate Description: Come along up, way up the Description: Following the smash hit Description: For kids 7 -14; let the kids get Category: Flora Oil Basin Trail, it is steep in places but the Painting the Modern Garden: Monet their hands dirty and help make traditional Description: Have you ever experienced view is fantastic! See prairie, woodland to Matisse from Season 3 comes a Bannok, as they hear stories of traditional sunrise in Waterton? A sunrise hike with and mountain meadow species. Bring new film based on the hugely popular First Nations foods. They will also get a Lyndon might be just what you’ve been lunch & extra water. exhibition “The Artist’s Garden: American sweet treat! waiting for: Waterton’s abundance of Cost: $85.00 Impressionism and the Garden Movement, Cost:$25.00 wildflowers are quite different at dawn 1887-1920” from the Florence Griswold than they are during the day. Many 17G Bears and Blossoms - a Walk Museum in Connecticut, widely considered 17U The Beautiful Chemicals in blossoms close for the night and open with Charlie a home of American Impressionism. Taking Beautiful Flowers (90min) with the first rays of the sun. The dew is Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am its lead from French artists like Renoir Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm still on the grasses, the first songbirds Presenter: Charlie Russell and Cézanne, the American impressionist Presenter: Roy Golsteyn are beginning to sing, it is a particularly Activity Level: ■ Moderate movement followed its own path which Activity Level: ■ All peaceful and wonderful time of the day. Category: Fauna over a thirty-year period reveals as much Category: Presentation Cost: $45.00 Description: Discover the role bears play about America as a nation as it does about Description: Join Roy Golsteyn, a cancer 17C The Wild Lilies of Waterton in the health of wildflower populations its art as a creative power-house. It’s a research scientist, who is investigating and hear stories and experiences of world story closely tied to a love of gardens and chemicals from native plants. Roy will Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am renowned bear expert Charlie Russell as a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly share some of his experiences and Presenter: Jacinthe Lavoie he shares his knowledge and viewpoint on urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, experiments about chemicals that are Activity Level: ■ Moderate bears and humans. gardens and famous locations throughout present in native plants, including those Category: Flora Cost: $59.00 the United States, UK and France, this that flourish in Waterton Lakes National Description: From small to large and mesmerizing film is a feast for the eyes. Park. He will give you a healthy look plain to showy, Waterton has a wonderful 17J Wildflowers from Horseback Cost: $10.00 Adult $7.00 Children at some the nasty chemicals found in variety of lilies. Learn about the family Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am beautiful wild flowers. Lilaceae, its identifying features, its Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds 17P Bee or Butterfly House Building Cost:$20.00; Up to 18: $10 change in family membership and other Activity Level: ■ Moderate for Kids interesting facts. Inspect the many Category: Flora Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm 17V Night Sky Presentation plants that are now, or have previously Description: What could be more fun Presenter: Roger Riis Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm been, considered lilies. This includes than riding a horse and flower watching Activity Level: Age range 8-14 Presenter: Alan Dyer the spectacular western red lily, false at the same time? This program will start Category: Kids Activity Level: ■ All hellebore, the Queen’s cup, smooth camas, with some flower basics on the ground Description: Kids, join Roger and build a Category: Presentation and many more... Moderate walking. followed by a leisurely ride that will butterfly or bee house - you get to choose Description: Come enjoy a slide Cost: $45.00 take you into different habitats to view which. While building your house you will show and presentation by Alberta 17D Capturing Wildflowers and dozens of different flower types. No riding learn how to help these natural pollinators astrophotographer, Alan Dyer (www. Stunning Vistas - Photo Workshop experience is necessary. Please register at do their job. Remember - bee, butterfly amazing-sky.net) - prepare to be amazed! Alpine Stables. and birds houses are not allowed to be Cost: By Donation Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am Cost: $90.00 used in the park. Adult supervision not Presenter: Ian Wilson necessary. Please register as capacity is Activity Level: ■ Moderate 17K Blackfoot Ethnobotany Walk at limited. Category: Photography Coppermine Creek Cost: Free Description: Learn to improve your Time: 9:15 am to 12:15 am landscape photography and discover use Presenter: Ryan Heavy Head 17R The Many Wildflowers of the of natural light, composition, leading lines Activity Level: ■ Moderate Rose Family and other techniques to create stunning Category: First Nations, Flora, Spiritual Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm photographs. Creative use of depth of Description: Ethnobotany is the study of Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds field, filters and slow shutter speeds will a region’s plants and their practical uses Activity Level: ■ Moderate also be discussed while taking landscape through the traditional knowledge of a Category: Flora photographs. Bring a tripod if you have local culture and people.’ On this walk, join Description: A large and important family, one. A tripod is useful. Ryan and gain insight into what local First you will enjoy identifying the various Cost: $45.00 Nations knew about the native plants of species that contribute to Waterton’s this area and how they made use of them. wide diversity of plants. As we look for Cost: $45.00 the different blooms, we’ll talk about the identifying characteristics, the historic uses, the great importance as food crops and other interesting facts. Cost: $45.00

18J Wildflowers from Horseback 18N Solar Stargazing Description: Join Roy Golsteyn, a cancer Sunday, June 18 Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm research scientist, who is investigating 18B The Art of Photographing Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds Presenter: Alan Dyer chemicals from native plants. Roy will ■ ■ Wildflowers Activity Level: Moderate Activity Level: All share some of his experiences and Category: Flora Category: Astronomy experiments about chemicals that are Time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am Description: What could be more fun Description: See our star up close through present in native plants, including those Presenter: Ian Wilson than riding a horse and flower watching the Park’s powerful telescope, equipped that flourish in Waterton Lakes National Activity Level: ■ Moderate at the same time? This program will start with a special solar filter for safe views Park. He will give you a healthy look at Category: Photography with some flower basics on the ground of the Sun and sunspots. Hosted by some of the nasty chemicals found in Description: How does one photograph followed by a leisurely ride that will astronomer Alan Dyer Please register as beautiful wild flowers. a wildflower? Learn about depth of take you into different habitats to view capacity is limited. Cost: $20.00 field settings, composition, coping with dozens of different flower types. No riding Cost: By Donation variable light and that pesky breeze. experience is necessary. Please register at 18T Learn to Drum Ian is interested in helping those new to Alpine Stables. 18P Wild Edibles Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm capturing wildflower images, as well as Cost: $90.00 Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Presenter: Piikani First Nations those wishing to perfect their techniques. Presenter: Valorie Webber Activity Level: ■ All A tripod is useful. 18K Wildflowers of the Redrock Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: First Nations Cost: $45.00 Parkway Category: Flora Description: Listen, can you hear it? Time: 9:15 am to 12:15 am Description: Come seek out the things you The sound is beginning to build. Learn 18C Wildflowers 101 Presenter: Brenda Holder COULD eat if you had to under Valorie’s the beauty and wisdom of First Nations Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am Activity Level: ■ Moderate knowledgeable guidance and those you stories when combined with the music and Presenter: Jacinthe Lavoie Category: Flora should NOT! the rhythm. Learn from the Piikani First Activity Level: ■ Moderate Description: Waterton Lakes National Park Cost: $45.00 Nations on what the drum symbolizes and Flora Category: is rich in plant species because the prairie how you can learn to drum too. Please From Agoseris to Yarrow Description: runs right up against the mountains. 18Q Connecting with the Natural register as capacity is limited. this workshop will help you learn how to Explore this landform phenomena, the World Cost: $15.00 identify flowers using blossom, stem and diversity of wildflowers, their different Time: 1:15 pm to 4:15 pm leaf features. You will also learn about habitats and the rock formations of the Presenter: Bill Hanlon 18U Charles Waterton - The man who flower families and how to use guidebooks scenic Red Rock Parkway. Activity Level: ■ Easy inspired Charles Darwin! (60min) to identify flowers. Discover the diversity Cost: $45.00 Category: Spiritual Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm of plants you never noticed before. Description: The program will explore the Presenter: Carol Patterson Cost: $45.00 18L Bee or Butterfly House Building physical, emotional and spiritual benefits Location: Opera House for Kids of connecting with nature, including Activity Level: ■ All 18D Living Dangerously Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 am the health benefits of movement within Category: Presentation Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am Presenter: Roger Riis the natural world, and will highlight the Description: Few people know about Presenter: Lyndon Penner Activity Level: Age range 8-14 significance of Aboriginal history on Charles Waterton for whom Waterton Activity Level: ■ Moderate Category: Kids Waterton’s magical landscape. Lakes National Park is named, but he Category: Flora Description: Kids, join Roger and build a Cost: $45.00 was one of the earliest conservationists. When asked about the most Description: butterfly or bee house - you get to choose He created the first nature preserve, dangerous things in the park, many people which. While building your house you will 18R Hawk’s Nest invented the artificial bird nest box, and (incorrectly) assume that it must be bears learn how to help these natural pollinators Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm wrote a book that contributed to Charles or cougars. The truth is that there are do their job. Remember - bee, butterfly Presenter: Charlie Russell Darwin’s decision to switch from medicine far more dangerous plants in the park and birds houses are not allowed to be Activity Level: ■ Easy to natural history. Considered eccentric than there are animals. Join Lyndon for a used in the park. Adult supervision not Category: Presentation by his peers, he protected predators, a fascinating session in which he will point necessary. Please register as capacity is Description: Partake in tea and pie while controversial decision for the era. Come out some of the most poisonous and limited. feeling like you have gone back in time as to this session and learn more about deadly plants in the park; some of which Cost: Free you sit in the historic Hawk’s Nest Outfitter Waterton, his conservation efforts, and are among the most poisonous in Canada! Cabin. Listen to your host, Charlie Russell, whether his philosophies are still valid 150 You’ll be amazed at all the leafy green 18M Where the Prairie Meets the while he shows pictures and tells stories years after his death. things growing in the woods that could Mountains of his life of finding and photographing Cost: $20.00; Up to 18: $10 easily kill you... Time: 12:45 pm to 3:45pm wildflowers. Charlie has spent his life in Cost: $45.00 Presenter: Ron McNeil Waterton and is the grandson of Bert 18V Annora Brown: Interpreter of the Activity Level: ■ Moderate Riggall, the original Waterton outfitter. Foothills 18G Extraordinary Flowers in Easy Category: Geology Cost: $55.00 Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Places Description: Join Ron and explore nature’s Presenter: Joyce Sasse Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am biological and physical diversity near 18S The Beautiful Chemicals in Location: Lion’s Hall Presenter: Valorie Webber Bellevue Hill. Learn about the wide array beautiful Flowers (90min) Activity Level: ■ All Activity Level: ■ Easy of habitats, the vegetation types and soil Time: 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Category: Presentation Category: Flora parent materials that exist in this relatively Presenter: Roy Golsteyn Description: Come and enjoy a 40 min Description: Get to know Waterton’s small but unique area - where the prairie Activity Level: ■ All radio play on Annora Brown. Learn and beautiful wildflowers by venturing only abruptly meets the mountains. Category: Flora gain insight on her and some of her a few steps from your car. View many Cost: $45.00 colored images and 10 of her paintings. wonderful species in various areas and see Cost: By Donation what lies just off the roadside. Cost: $45.00 ~ 17 ~ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Monday, June 19 Monday, June 19 – Tuesday, June 20 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

19F Nature’s Medicine Cabinet - From Category: Geology ways we can imagine. This workshop will Monday, June 19 Plants to Salves Description: Waterton is a UNESCO World include an indoor presentation portion to 19B Capturing Wildflowers and Time: 8:15 am to 5:15 pm Heritage Site, in part due to its unique help mentally prepare you for the more Stunning Vistas - Photo Workshop Presenter: Brenda Holder landscape, climate and watershed. James advanced techniques and compositions Activity Level: ■ Moderate will explain some of the events over the before we go out and practice them. Time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am Category: First Nations, Flora, Spiritual past 2 billion years that have formed the This group workshop also puts us in a Presenter: Ian Wilson Description: This workshop will take place Waterton of today. position to inspire each other as we all Activity Level: ■ Moderate both in the field and in the classroom and Cost: $45.00 go to the same places, but come up with Category: Photography will focus on the Traditional Use of Plant perspectives that others haven’t thought Description: Learn to improve your Medicines and how they fit in our world 19L Invigorate Your Senses of. With that said, I encourage you to landscape photography and discover use today. You will learn plant identification Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 am share your ideas and photos with each of natural light, composition, leading lines and plant use, including edibles (teas, Presenter: Lyndon Penner other. After two days of shooting we will and other techniques to create stunning syrups) and medicines (salves, poultices, Activity Level: ■ Moderate gather up a few of your photos that you photographs. Creative use of depth of liniments); you will also learn the methods Category: Flora, Spiritual struggled with, returning to the classroom field, filters and slow shutter speeds will of creating these products and have the Description: It is often remarked that for a critique for further analysis and also be discussed while taking landscape opportunity of making some to take home. Waterton is a visual feast, but have you to find ways of improving them. This photographs. Bring a tripod if you have We will discuss the ethics of harvesting ever thought about indulging your other crucial feedback is in a constructive one. A tripod is useful. and plant respect. All plant material will be senses here? Join Lyndon for a session that and supportive environment and is very Cost: $45.00 gathered before the festival and provided will cater to all the wondrous and varied important for the continued growth of a budding photographer. Bring a tripod and 19C Where the Prairie Meets the for the participants. Lunch not included. sensations that the park has to offer. You’ll SLR. Optionally bring a laptop to help you Mountains Cost: $99.00 certainly see a lot of flowers, but you will also be invited to listen closely to the go through your photos at the end of the Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am 19G Bears and Blossoms - a Walk wind in the trees, smell the blossoms, and day. Presenter: Ron McNeil with Charlie touch and taste them. For those who are Cost: $99.00 Activity Level: ■ Moderate Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am interested in a more tactile and intimate Category: Geology Presenter: Charlie Russell connection with the earth, this will be a 19P A Walk with the Authors Description: Join Ron and explore nature’s Activity Level: ■ Moderate terrific experience. Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm biological and physical diversity near Category: Fauna Cost: $45.00 Presenter: Ian Wilson & Jacinthe Lavoie Bellevue Hill. Learn about the wide array Description: Discover the role bears play Activity Level: ■ Moderate of habitats, the vegetation types and soil in the health of wildflower populations 19N “Photo Finesse” a 2 day Category: Flora parent materials that exist in this relatively and hear stories and experiences of world workshop Description: Take a walk with authors and small but unique area - where the prairie renowned bear expert Charlie Russell as Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm photographer of “Wildflowers of Waterton abruptly meets the mountains. he shares his knowledge and viewpoint on Presenter: Kyle Marquardt Park” and catch their contagious passion Cost: $45.00 bears and humans. Activity Level: ■ Moderate for the beauty of Waterton Park and their 19D Extraordinary Flowers in Easy Cost: $59.00 Category: Photography feelings about wild places in general. Places Description: Learn to take photographs Participants will have an opportunity to 19H “Getting Wild With Acrylics” Two with a little extra technical finesse. Let’s glean more knowledge about flowers Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am Day Workshop capture a waterfall and turn it into a misty from Jacinthe and pick up tips about Presenter: Valorie Webber Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm vaporous stream of clouds. Let us find photographing the flowering gems they Activity Level: ■ Easy Presenter: Brent Laycock landscapes, wildlife and flowers in the see along the way. Category: Flora Activity Level: ■ All townsite and areas beyond to capture Cost: $55.00 Description: Get to know Waterton’s Category: Art them in the most creative and unique beautiful wildflowers by venturing only Description: In this workshop, participants a few steps from your car. View many will explore concepts of colour and design wonderful species in various areas and see through the process of painting the what lies just off the roadside. colourful world of Waterton’s renowned Cost: $45.00 Make memories at the wildflowers. Brent Laycock will explain and Waterton Community Centre 19E In Search of Wildflowers - A Hike demonstrate the basic technical properties Up Sofa Mountain of acrylic paint, including the use of the various mediums and gels. Concepts such Time: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm as transparency, opacity and viscosity will Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds be clarified. Day One will focus on close-up Activity Level: ■ Challenging images of wildflowers, and Day Two will Category: Flora be devoted to depicting wildflowers in Description: Waterton Lakes National Park the landscape. Painters at all levels of contains several different ecozones, each experience are welcome. with its own characteristic vegetation. Cost: $199.00 On this hike, we will travel through the grassland and aspen parkland and into 19K The Geology of Waterton - What the montane zone. We will see an amazing Located in the heart of • A premier rental facility for weddings, reunions, Makes Waterton Unique Waterton, our beautiful retreats, seminars, conferences and more! variety of wildflowers! Bring lunch and Time: 9:15 am to 12:15 am renewed historic • Featuring: 2 classic schoolrooms, reception hall, extra water. Lunch not included. schoolhouse is the gem full catering kitchen, gymnasium. Audio visual Presenter: James Goulet wcc.mywaterton.ca • 403.859.2042 Cost: $85.00 you’ve been looking for! equipment and high speed internet available. Activity Level: ■ Moderate [email protected]

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19Q Vistas and Landscape Stories of wonderful photographs of the wildflowers 20E Métis Beadwork and Design 20M Movie - The Artist’s Garden the Bertha Trail and wildlife found in Waterton’s landscape Workshop (90min) Time: 1:15 pm to 4:15 pm of sparkling lakes, impressive mountains, Time: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Presenter: Ron McNeil and wide-open vistas. Waterton Wild is an Presenter: Brenda Holder Presenter: Tickets sold at Opera House Activity Level: ■ Moderate intimate portrait of the park, from the first Activity Level: ■ Easy Activity Level: ■ All Category: Geology crocus and colours of spring to the last Category: First Nations Category: Documentary Description: Join soil scientist Ron McNeil pika and vibrant hues of late autumn. Description: Learn about the history of the Description: Following the smash hit as he travels the Bertha Trail. Discover how Cost: By Donation Flower Bead Work People, Métis Design Painting the Modern Garden: Monet the landscape, the soil and the flowers are and history and the significance of the 5 to Matisse from Season 3 comes a all connected in a deep way. Reserve now petals in this stunning artwork. You will new film based on the hugely popular Cost: $45.00 Tuesday, June 20 have hands-on instructions on creating exhibition “The Artist’s Garden: American your own keepsake flower beadwork Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 19R 100 Species Walk 20B Photographing Wildflowers pouch; all supplies included. Lunch not 1887-1920” from the Florence Griswold Time: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm along the Bellevue Trail included. Indoor. Museum in Connecticut, widely considered Presenter: Valorie Webber Time: 7:00 am to 10:00 am Cost: $99.00 a home of American Impressionism. Taking Activity Level: ■ Moderate Presenter: Ian Wilson its lead from French artists like Renoir Category: Flora Activity Level: ■ Moderate 20G Wildflowers along the Prince of and Cézanne, the American impressionist Description: Waterton is wonderfully rich Category: Photography Wales Trail movement followed its own path which with a diversity of wildflower species. On Description: Join Ian Wilson, author and Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am over a thirty-year period reveals as much this walk, come search for and identify 100 photographer of Wildflowers of Waterton Presenter: Jo-Anne Reynolds about America as a nation as it does about species from A-Z with Valorie. Park during his hands-on workshop. Learn Activity Level: ■ Moderate its art as a creative power-house. It’s a Cost: $45.00 to capture the fine details of wildflowers Category: Flora story closely tied to a love of gardens and along the Bellevue Trail. Camera settings, Description: Discover the amazing variety a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly 19T The Sights from Bear’s Hump use of depth of field to highlight your of wildflowers that inhabit the different urbanizing nation. Traveling to studios, Time: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm subject, the benefits of a tripod, use habitats surrounding this landmark; hear gardens and famous locations throughout Presenter: James Goulet of lighting and composition and other of the history and delight in the views. the United States, UK and France, this Activity Level: ■ Challenging close-up techniques will be discussed Cost: $45.00 mesmerizing film is a feast for the eyes. Category: Geology while photographing wildflowers. Cost: $10.00 Adults $7.00 Children Description: Join James as he takes you Discover how best to use the settings on 20J Learn to Drum up Bear’s Hump. Enjoy amazing views of your camera for the perfect image, and Time: 9:00 am to 11:30 am 20T Hawk’s Nest - A Memorial Walk the plains to the east and the Waterton benefit from Ian’s years of photographic Presenter: Piikani First Nations for John Russell valley to the south. James will explain experience. Bring a tripod. Activity Level: ■ All Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm the forces of nature that have brought Cost: $45.00 Category: First Nations Presenter: Charlie Russell about the rocks you are walking over and Description: Listen, can you hear it? Activity Level: ■ Moderate the landforms you see. Elevation gain: 20C The Geology of Waterton - The sound is beginning to build. Learn Category: Special Event 225m/740 feet What Makes Waterton Unique the beauty and wisdom of First Nations Description: Charlie will lead a walk from Cost: $45.00 Time: 7:30 am to 10:30 am stories when combined with the music and the Hawk’s Nest up to the Butte west of Presenter: James Goulet the rhythm. Learn from the Piikani First the house. Charlie says: “It is a hike that 19U Bear Man of Kamchatka Activity Level: ■ Moderate Nations on what the drum symbolizes and John and the rest of us who live here have Time: 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Category: Geology how you can learn to drum too. Please done many hundreds of times because Presenter: Charlie Russell Description: Waterton is a UNESCO World register as capacity is limited. the Butte looks out over the ranch that Location: Opera House Heritage Site, in part due to its unique Cost: $15.00 has been in the family for 111 years. It is Activity Level: ■ All landscape, climate and watershed. James land that John had a great love for. He Category: Documentary will explain some of the events over the 20K Wildflowers 101 looked after it for most of his life, seeing Description: Join Charlie Russell in past 2 billion years that have formed the Time: 9:15 am to 12:15 am that it was not grazed too heavily and that watching ‘The Bear Man of Kamchatka’. A Waterton of today. Presenter: Jacinthe Lavoie the fences are in good repair. He loved 2006 BBC documentary about Charlie’s Cost: $45.00 Activity Level: ■ Moderate to do this and I will love to tell people incredible work with grizzly bears. See how Category: Flora about it and try to explain what made my he introduced wild grizzly bear cubs back 20D 100 Species Walk Description: From Agoseris to Yarrow wonderful brother tick. (Only problem is into the wilderness. After this film you will Time: 8:00 am to 11:00 am this workshop will help you learn how to that I will not be able to get the names of look at bears differently. Following the Presenter: Valorie Webber identify flowers using blossom, stem and all the parsnips and Solomon seals that movie you can ask Charlie Russell all of Activity Level: ■ Moderate leaf features. You will also learn about the bears like to eat refreshed by him this your desired questions. Category: Flora flower families and how to use guidebooks year.)”- All donations will go to the Castle Cost: $20.00; Up to 18: $10 Description: Waterton is wonderfully rich to identify flowers. Discover the diversity Crown Wilderness Association in John’s with a diversity of wildflower species. On of plants you never noticed before. name. 19V Waterton Wild Presentation this walk, come search for and identify 100 Cost: $45.00 Cost: By donation. Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm species from A-Z with Valorie. Presenter: Ian Wilson & Jacinthe Lavoie Cost: $45.00 Activity Level: ■ All Category: Presentation Description: Join Ian and Jacinthe for a multimedia presentation featuring their

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Alan Dyer is an Dr. Bill Hanlon is Jo-Anne Reynolds Margaret Best author of several a family physician, pharma- lives on the prairie but loves lives in Alberta and loves books,and associate editor cist, expedition medicine to play in the mountains. Waterton. She is an of SkyNews, Canada’s consultant, travel and She teaches at Medicine accomplished and inter- magazine of stargazing, tropical medicine consult- Hat College, in the nationally recognized and a contributing editor to ant. He is founder and Environmental Science and botanical artist and teacher, Sky & Telescope magazine. director of Basic Health Ecotourism and Outdoor who has taught, and been His photos and videos have appeared on International Foundation. Dr. Bill has summited the Leadership programs. She enjoys interpreting recognized and exhibited in Canada, the USA and in Spaceweather.com, National Geographic, CBSNews highest peak on all 7 continents including Everest nature, facilitating outdoor activities, and has a the United Kingdom. bestbotanical.com and more. The main belt asteroid #78434 is named in 2007. He has skied across Greenland and skied passion for ‘botanizing’ with people. Piikani Group Piikani Traditional Knowledge in his honor. amazingsky.com 1200 km from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. His Kim Pearson works Services is a department of the Piikani Nation travel and adventure experience matches his love Brenda Holder is a as an Ecosystem Scientist whose mandate is preservation and enhancement of the health, culture and spirituality of people Professional Interpretive for Parks Canada coordinat- of Piikani-Blackfoot heritage and culture. As such living in remote, high altitude areas. basichealthin- Guide, Interpretive Guide ing grassland restoration, we provide educational outreach with a variety of ternatonal.org Group Management wildlife movement and programs and services available in cross-cultural Instructor, First Aid Dr. Roy Golsteyn species at risk projects, awareness and understanding. PTKS operates out instructor, and Keeper of is an Associate Professor of among others. She of the Buffalo Skull Lodge located on the Piikani her Medicine Lineage. She Biology and the Director of collaborated for ten years on the Nature First Nation in Southern Alberta, Canada. takes great pleasure in sharing the knowledge that the Cancer Cell and the Conservancy of Canada’s neighbouring Waterton Roger Riis Since learning about Mason bees she has researched and gained through talking to Natural Product Park Front Project and has consulted on various a few years ago Roger has spent a lot of time elders about the rich Métis traditions of her Laboratories at the projects for organizations such as the Southern researching the effects of pollution on the environ- heritage. Brenda offers Native Medicine classes in University of Lethbridge in Alberta Land Trust Society, Alberta Fish and Wildlife ment. Roger takes great interest in teaching about Canmore, Alberta. Canada. He undertook his PhD in biochemistry in and Canadian Wildlife Service. Kim has been pollination to all that show interest. He especially Sir Tim Hunt’s laboratory (Nobel Prize 2001) at the identifying birds by ear for nearly twenty years; it is Brent Laycock was enjoys talking to younger people because “they are University of Cambridge. Roy completed his studies a practice she honed while conducting point counts born in Lethbridge, Alberta the ones having to deal with mistakes made by my as a research fellow in Switzerland, and the for Parks Canada prior to the advent of digitized in 1947, and received an generation.” Institute Curie in Paris. Prior to joining the surveys. She and her family are proud to call the MFA at Brigham Young University of Lethbridge, he was a senior research Waterton area home. Ron McNeil is a soil University in Utah. The scientist in drug discovery with a pharmaceutical and land resource scientist subject matter for much of Kyle Marquardt company in France. He has published more than 80 who specializes in natural his work comes from the has been hooked on scientific papers and holds 5 patents. Roy was born resource inventories, variety of mountain, foothill, prairie and parkland photography ever since and raised in Lethbridge and has always been ecological land classifica- landscapes that are accessible from his home in experimenting with his first fascinated by plants and animals of the great tion, soil survey and Calgary. Much of his landscape painting expresses digital camera in high outdoors. interpretative products his love of the panoramic expanse of earth and sky school. After attending from inventories. Ron was instrumental in which he develops into lyrical compositions. His Ian Wilson has spent Ryerson University in developing the link of soils and ecological range work is represented in many important corporate many years exploring and Toronto and learning more traditional darkroom sites to native plant communities, which has been collections, in the university collections of Brigham photographing northern processes, Kyle returned to the prairies and valuable for habitat management and species at Young University, the University of Alberta, and in Canada. His photographs mountains he loves in Calgary, Alberta. Kyle’s risk. Ron also helped develop the 2010 reclamation public collections such as Calgary’s Civic Collection, have appeared in many photography became a passport to new places criteria for native grasslands and cultivated lands the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Glenbow- books and magazine across when he took on the role of photography guide; in Alberta. Alberta Institute, and the Royal Collection at the country. His most escorting artists, enthusiasts and photographers Windsor Castle. The book Waterton: Brush & Pen recent books are Waterton Wild, Wildflowers of alike to the Arctic and Antarctic where some of the Ryan Heavy Head, features over one hundred Laycock paintings of Waterton Park, and Wildflowers of Banff Park. Ian most stunning landscapes and wildlife exist. Akáyo’kaki, is a Waterton Lakes National Park accompanied by has also written five bestselling outdoor adventure Logging over 30 polar expeditions, Kyle isn’t averse well-known naturalist in essays by renowned author, Fred Stenson. Other books. He is now pursuing his passion of photo- to teaching his techniques to others; there are no Southern Alberta, equally articles and reproductions of his work have graphing wildflowers and wildlife. When he’s not secrets and Kyle enjoys nurturing a photographer’s recognized for his Blackfoot appeared in many Canadian and international art wandering in the mountains, Ian lives in Canmore, talent. Having a fervid taste for diversity and new traditonal-knowledge magazines, books and on two Canada Post stamps. Alberta. challenges, Kyle can be seen from culinary to approach to ecological WhitePine Productions has produced two instruc- commercial photography, anything creative and studies, and for his role as the lead conservator for Jacinthe Lavoie has tional DVDs featuring Laycock’s acrylic and new to keep his photographic eye fresh. His work is prairie rattlesnakes in the city of Lethbridge. Heavy been a flower-bug since her watercolour techniques. printed on a myriad of materials and media; from Head holds a Blackfoot Eminent Scholar Kainai childhood days. With videos and slideshows to canvas gallery wraps. Doctorate from Red Crow College and the Blood Carol Paterson training as a researcher, Tribe, a Masters degree in cultural anthropology ran away from a career as she has observed and Lyndon Penner from the University of Lethbridge, and principal an oil and gas accountant, enjoyed nature through grew up in rural transfer rights in the Niitsitapi discipline of Beaver she’s been writing about each season. Her most Saskatchewan and has Bundle Caretaking. He was formerly the Director of wildlife and adventure for recent books are Waterton Wild, Wildflowers of spent all of his time and Kainai Studies at Red Crow Community College, publications including BBC Waterton Park, and Wildflowers of Banff Park. energy on gardening since and is currently envisioning the development of a Travel, Fodor’s Travel, Jacinthe has also written twelve educational books. he was very young. He private school without walls, The Aimmoniisiiksi Roads and Kingdoms, Alaska magazine, Avenue She is now fulfilling her dream of writing about started working in the Institute, which will offer learning opportunities for Magazine, Red Deer Advocate and Vacay.ca. wildflowers and painting their beauty in watercol- horticulture industry at the age of 16, and now all ages, anchored in the Blackfoot knowledge our. During the seasons when flowers are dormant, writes, lectures, and teaches all over western Charlie Russell paradigm. Jacinthe lives in Canmore, Alberta. Canada. When he is not pulling weeds in the Local resident, Charlie garden or tromping all over the mountains in Valorie Webber is Russell is changing our James Goulet has a search of some obscure wildflower, Lyndon likes to a studied lover of every- perception of the grizzly, B.Sc. Honors in Geology and spend time with his nephews or sitting quietly thing floral with a repertoire the Great Bear. His books, lives in Saskatoon, but has somewhere with a good book to read and a cup of of over 500 wildflower films, and personal travelled all over Western coffee. His passion for Canada’s native plants is species. Valorie is also a presentations are spec- Canada, Nunavut and what first brought him to Waterton and he is gardener for hire and is tacular in scope and an inspiration to experience. Australia with geological thrilled to be your guide to some of the country’s involved with invasive exploration work. He lives a most beautiful flowers. species control. very active lifestyle visible through his prominent involvement in officiating and coaching gymnastics.

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~ 21 ~ 2017 Waterton Wildflower Festival WHAT’S NEXT Learning about wildflowers is a wonderful way to connect with nature. Once you start you’ll begin to notice the insects, birds, and mammals associated with them. We invite you to return this fall to take part in the Waterton Wildlife Weekend September 22 – 24. See you at next year’s Wildflower festival in mid-June 2018. Keep on botanizing! Sincerely, The Waterton Festivals Team

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