Pend Oreille Chapter Video Information
Below is information about each of the videos created by the Pend Oreille Chapter – to be used when videos are posted on the Master Naturalist Website. Note that other videos from 2020 are not included here, because more current videos on the same topics from 2021 have been uploaded.
Filename: 3-River Restoration 04Apr20
This presentation was created and presented by Brita Olson, Watershed Coordinator with the Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (LCFWG), on April 4, 2020. The LCFWG has done recent river restoration projects on the Bull River and Vermilion River and they have several upcoming projects to enhance local watershed areas. Video links can be found here:
Roots: Bringing Back the Bull River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7OkiNA9GQ&t=132s
Pulse: A Story of River Restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brgJKgH37F0&t=11s
Filename: 4-Lake CDA Water Quality
This video includes two presentations about the water quality of Lake Coeur d’Alene, from April 9, 2020. The first is by Rebecca Stevens, Restoration Coordinator for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. The second is by Dr. Craig Cooper, Limnologist for Idaho DEQ. In the 1880’s silver and gold were discovered along the Coeur d’Alene River east of Lake Coeur d’Alene in what is called the Silver Valley. Tailings and other wastes from the mining process over the years flowed into the river and lake and have contaminated the lake with significant heavy metals, resulting in the death of fish and aquatic life. These presentations address the history and remediation efforts to improve the water quality of the area.
Filename: 5-Rathdrum Aquifer-10Apr20
This presentation was by Seth Oliver, Hydrogeologist for Idaho DEQ, on April 10, 2020. The Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer provides water for over half a million people in North Idaho and Eastern Washington. Much of that water flows into the aquifer from the southern end of Lake Pend Oreille into gravel and cobble deposited during Ice Age Floods over 15,000 years ago. Seth presented the geologic history of the area and water quality and quantity of the aquifer.
Filename: 7-Hager Lake Project
This presentation was by Derek Antonelli, Pend Oreille Chapter of IMN and President of the Calypso Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society on April 11, 2020. In 2012, Derek headed up a study of the flora of the Hager Lake area (west of Priest Lake in Bonner County). This rare peatland area had previously had its plants studied 57 and 20 years previously. The 2012 study added 111 species to the list of plants in the area.
Filename: 8-Mammals of North Idaho
This presentation was by Laura Wolf, Wildlife Biologist with IDFG in Coeur d’Alene on April 16, 2020. Laura presented the different species of mammals in Wetlands, Forests, Alpine Regions and Urban/Suburban areas of North Idaho.
Filename: 20a-Ornithology
Carrie Hugo, Wildlife Biologist with the BLM office in Coeur d’Alene, conducted this class about birds on June 12, 2020. The presentation included information about how birds help us understand ecosystems and are great indicators of habitat quality. Carrie presented the natural history of birds, including unique adaptations, such as their respiration, keen eyesight, feathers and complex communication. Some birds migrate thousands of miles annually, with Arctic Terns migrating the farthest – over 12,000 miles one way from the Arctic to Antarctica and then returning to the Arctic to breed the next year. She includes information about many birds of North Idaho, predator/prey species, seed dispersers, pollinators, breeding, nesting, apps and field guides.
Filename: 22-Entomology
Danielle Malesky, Entomologist with the USDA Forest Health Protection office in Coeur d’Alene, conducted this class in early July for our chapter about Entomology and Forest Health Protection. Idaho is part of two Forest Health Protection regions: Northern Region 1 (with offices in Coeur d’Alene and Missoula) and Intermountain Region 4 (with offices in Boise and Ogden). Danielle’s presentation included information about management and monitoring of the forests (including aerial surveys), insect and disease publications, insect morphology, insect ecology and beetle-kills of trees. The presentation also includes references to local offices of the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL), the U of I Extension Forestry group and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, where individual landowners can get help if they have issues with their trees dying from insect or root diseases.
Filename: 24-Medicinal and Edible Plants of North Idaho
This presentation was conducted in late July by Cari Hudson, local herbalist, and Pat Meyers, Education Chair for IMN’s Pend Oreille Chapter. The presentation included a discussion about wildcrafting and warnings about making sure that the plants that are collected are not poisonous “look-alikes”. Cari told the class that everyone who wildcrafts should have activated charcoal capsules handy in case poisonous plants are ingested and you are not close to a medical treatment facility. A link to the Poisonous Plants of North Idaho was shown. The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) plant atlas link was presented, showing the class how to find out if a plant grows in the area (tabulated by genus). Those links are below:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ipnf/learning/?cid=fsm9_019170
http://bonap.net/Napa/Genus/Traditional/County
The presentation included sections on Medicinal “Weeds” (plants usually considered weeds by the public), Medicinal Herbs, Wild Edible Plants of the Northwest, Mosquito-Repellent Plants and references to publications.
Filename: 27-Priest River Complex Geology Presentation
On October 9, 2020, Andy Buddington, Geology Instructor at Spokane Community College, conducted this presentation about the Priest River Metamorphic Core Complex for the Pend Oreille Chapter of the Idaho Master Naturalists. Andy’s research involves study of local and regional geology and tectonics, as well as mineral deposits. He has published several papers on Precambrian rocks of the Priest River metamorphic complex. Andy discussed how younger sedimentary layers of suprastructure rocks have been detached along fault lines from the underlying metamorphic basement rocks, which have been uplifted to the surface in some areas via tectonics and pressure. The exposed outcrops of “basement” rocks had once been 20 to 25 miles below the surface. The presentation includes the history of the Priest River metamorphic core complex, from the initial deposition of Precambrian “Belt sea” sediments to the crustal extension, uplift and unroofing of sedimentary layers about 50 Million years ago.
The Priest River Complex includes Hauser Lake gneiss (1.48 Billion years old) and Laclede augen gneiss outcrops (1.58 Billion years old) and even older Pend Oreille gneiss outcrops at 2.65 billion years old. A field trip conducted by Andy on October 10 gave the class viewings of these rock outcrops along the Pend Oreille River near Laclede and Priest River.