An update on the status of the park’s elk herds will be the next installment in the Perspectives Winter Speaker Series at Olympic National Park.
The Feb. 14 program will be from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, Port Angeles.
Patti Happe, a park wildlife biologist, and Kurt Jenkins, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, will present “Olympic Elk: Monitoring a Park Icon.” The two will talk about how improved technology has adding to biologists’ understanding of the park’s Roosevelt elk, whose protection and preservation was a central reason for the establishment of Olympic National Park.
The series takes place the second Tuesday of each month through April and is sponsored by Olympic National Park and the Friends of Olympic National Park.
‘SIGNS OF HOME’
Author Barbara Johns will be at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park on Saturday for a presentation of her new book “Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita.”
The book is based on the experiences recorded by the Seattle artist in a diary he started after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tokita was interred in a camp in Minidoka, Idaho, one of 10 relocations camps set up across the United States.
The program will be from 2-4 p.m. Copies of the book will be available for purchase in the park’s bookstore. Johns will be available afterwards to sign books.
Admission is free. The park is at 319 Second Ave. S., Seattle. For more information, call Ruth Kerr at 206-220-4238.
MONTANA PARKS PASS
For people planning to visit a Montana state park, that state is now selling its 2012 park pass for nonresidents. While Montana State Parks charges a $5 daily entrance fee for nonresidents, it also sells an annual pass. The annual pass is good for one year from the date it is issued, and is available for $25 for the first vehicle and $20 for each additional vehicle. You can purchase an annual pass online at app.mt.gov/Als/Index. For more information, go to stateparks.mt.gov.
Last year, Washington created a similar pass. The Discover Pass, which provides access to lands managed by State Parks, Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Natural Rescources, is $10 per day or $30 annually.
Jeffrey P. Mayor: 253-597-8640 jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com blog.thenewstribune.com/adventure
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