Perspectives Program Series Announced at Olympic NP

Monday November 9, 2009

Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park.

This year's 11th annual Perspectives series will begin at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center on Tuesday, November 10. Beginning at 7:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month from November through May, this year's series will offer windows into a wide range of Olympic National Park topics including the recent discovery of a fossil sea star near Kalaloch, snorkel trips, and high-mountain archeology.

All programs will take place at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center at 3002 Mount Angeles Road in Port Angeles and are free of charge. The topics and dates are as follows:

November 10 - Plate Boundary Observatory: Monitoring the Pacific/North American Plate Boundary in Western United States and Alaska
December 8 - Fossil Sea Star Reveals Clues to Olympic's Geologic Past
January 12 - From Headwaters to Sea: Riverscape Snorkel Surveys to Assess Fish Populations in Olympic National Park
February 9 - An Olympic Poet and Naturalist
March 9 - Dam, Salmon, and Nutrients: Freshwater Ecology of the Elwha River Restoration Project
April 13- They Went Where?! Archeology from the River Valleys to the Mountain Tops
May 11 - Lake Ozette Mercury Studies

For more information, call 360-565-3130.