3rd Annual Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival

Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity! Biodiversity Day is an opportunity to celebrate the web of life on Earth, which supports everything in nature that we need to survive- food, clean water, and shelter.

Celebrate biodiversity by joining us on a birding or plant walk this spring. The Land Trust is hosting Birding on the Henry`s Fork on Wedensday, June 5 and a Plant Ecology Tour of Woods Creek Fen on Friday, June 14. Links to these events can be found in our bio. By joining us on one or both of these walks, you`ll learn about the biodiversity in our own backyards!

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Happy World Bee Day! Today is the day we get to celebrate bees and other pollinators. Did you know that nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops? Yet bees and other pollinators are under threat from human activites.

Here are some tips from the @unitednations on what we each can do to aid our polinators:
-plant a diverse set of native plants, which flower at different times of the year;
-buy raw honey from local farmers;
-buy products from sustainable agricultural practices;
-avoid pesticides, fungicides or herbicides in our gardens;
-protect wild bee colonies when possible;
-sponsor a hive;
-make a bee water fountain by leaving a water bowl outside;
-help sustain forest ecosystems;
-raise awareness around us by sharing this information within our communities and networks.

Join Teton Regional Land Trust on part 2 of our Free the Willows restoration project on Six Springs Ranch. In 2005, volunteers planted native willows and hawthorne trees along Six Springs Creek to promote bank stabilization, provide cover for spawning Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout, and create better habitat/ shelter for birds and wildlife. 19 years later, these beautiful and mature plants are providing amazing wildlife habitat and have successfully stabilized the previously eroding banks. Last year, volunteers removed exclosure materials (fence materials/ t-posts) from around the mature plants, freeing them, but there is still a little work left to do in order to complete this project. Together we will get our hands dirty, learn more about the importance of Six Springs Creek to our local wildlife, and celebrate this successful restoration project!

Volunteers will meet at the Land Trust office (1520 S. 500 W., Driggs) at 9:45am on Saturday May 25th. From there, we will walk out to the exclosures, and anticipate working from 10am - 12pm. Link to signup in bio.

Things to bring: snacks or lunch, a hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, layers (long sleeves), muck boots or water-proof boots (as it will likely be wet out there), and work gloves. TRLT will provide beverages.

Come help us clean up the Teton Creek Pathway this Friday, May 17 from 10am-2pm.

The Teton Creek Collaborative partners- @tetonlandtrust, @tvtapidaho, @friendsofthetetonriver, and Valley Advocates for Responsible Development, and @legacyworkstetons - are seeking volunteers to help us clean up a Teton County easement property. Clean up will include removing historic trash including barbed wire and other scrap metal. Please dress appropriately.

For more details and to sign the waiver, please go to https://tvtap.org/events/tcccleanup/ (link in bio).

Join Teton Regional Land Trust`s Executive Director, Kim Trotter this Thursday, May 16 from 3-4:30pm at the @museumofidaho in Idaho Falls. She will be presenting to the Museum Club on the topic, "Connecting Habitat, Connecting Communities: Why Landscape Scale Conservation Matters."

Museum Club presentations are free to the public with the price of admission to the museum and are held once a month. To learn more about this presentation or any of the museum`s other presentations, visit museumofidaho.org or click on the link in our bio.

Tomorrow is World Migratory Bird Day! Millions of migratory birds are returning to their summer grounds after the long winter. This year`s theme is Protect Insects, Protect Birds.

According to @worldmigratorybirdday, "insects are essential sources of energy for many migratory bird species, not only during the breeding seasons but also during their extensive journeys and greatly affect the timing, duration, and overall success of bird migrations."

The Land Trust conserves fish and wildlife habitat, including habitat for many migratory birds, as well as insects. In fact, we have two programs specifically geared towards the protection of Trumpeter Swans and Sandhill Cranes, important migratory bird species that spend their summers in Teton Valley.

Join the Teton Creek Corridor non-profit partners (@tetonlandtrust, @tvtapidaho, @friendsofthetetonriver, and Valley Advocates for Responsible Development) on May 17 to help clean up a Teton County conservation easement property along Teton Creek and the Teton Creek Trail. Clean up will involve picking up historic trash, including barbed wire and scrap metal.

Equipment needed: gloves, long sleeves and pants to protect from wire/metal scraps, appropriate footwear, other weather appropriate clothing, water, sunscreen.

You can access the waiver (which will serve as your sign-up) at https://tvtap.org/events/tcccleanup/ (link in bio).

A huge thank you to all of our supporters for Idaho Gives! We are blown away by the incredible support we received this year. We raised a total of $31,216.00 for conservation in eastern Idaho, surpassing our goal of $25,000! 

Your contributions go directly toward conserving working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern Idaho for this and future generations.

Thanks to our generous donors, Bruce Mincher, Wes and Jean Keller, Greg Collins and Sue Miller, Tim Reynolds and Patty Isaeff, and Jim Key, for providing us with a $12,500 match! We couldn’t have done it without you.
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We are happy to announce the winner of this year`s Greater Yellowstone Crane Festival poster contest- Mary Lou Oslund! Her piece, titled "Foraging for Food Near the River`s Edge" was created using wood burning techniques and acrylic paint.

Her beautiful artwork will be used on the poster, in ads, on merchandise, and anything else we produce to promote the festival this year. Congratulations, MaryLou!

It’s the FINAL day of Idaho Gives. Thank you so much to those who have already donated. We are $1,230 away from our goal of $25,000! Your donation directly supports our work to ensure eastern Idaho can enjoy clean rivers and streams, abundant wildlife, inspiring vistas, working lands, and a thriving economy.

Photo by: Linda Swope
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