Bozeman Climate Alliance

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Please join us to learn about wildfire ecology. and the role of wildfire in the ecosystem. Ecologically speaking, large high-severity blazes are ecological gifts that create essential habitats for many plants and animals. Common practices like thinning and prescribed burning are largely ineffective at slowing or halting the largest, extreme weather-driven blazes and have many negative ecological impacts. Wuerthner will cover how homeowners can learn to live with fire.

About George Wuerthner
George Wuerthner is an ecologist and author of 38 books, including Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Wuerther has traveled extensively throughout the West to document where, why, and how wildfires have burned. He is now the ED of Public Lands Media. Most recently prior to that positon, he worked as ecological projects director for Tompkins Conservation.

#### Presented by Gallatin Valley Earth Day in partnership with Gallatin Wildlife Association and Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance

Where: Fairgrounds, 901 N. Black and Tamarack
When: Saturday April 20 from 10 - 3pm
Full Schedule: GallatinValleyEarthDay.org

Enjoy

• Exhibit Halls 1 and 2: Dozens of environmental exhibitors and live music in from solar companies to permaculture, FWP to CCL!
• Outdoors, see the petting zoo and check out the latest EVs.
• In Exhibit Hall #3, hear talks on fireproofing your home 11am, growing a food forest 12pm, tips for growing trees 1pm, a raptor shows at 1:30 and 2:30, and get to know the City's forestry division at 2pm.\.

Children's activities include the Magic Monster Show at 10 and 10:30, face painting, journaling, and activities at many of the exhibitors' booths!

6:30PM | Norm Asbjornson Hall | Room 165
Ian Van Coller: “Naturalists of the Long Now”
Van Coller, MSU Professor of Photography, will present his most recent work focusing on environmental issues related to climate change and deep time. These projects have centered on the production of large-scale artist books, as well as direct collaborations with paleoclimatologists.

This is offered as part of MSU Climate Week. To see the entire list of events, go to: https://www.montana.edu/communitydevelopment/climateweek.html

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC!

### Sponsored By MSU Climate Solutions Group, MSU Campus Climate Coalition,and Gallatin Valley Earth Day

### Free Raffle Drawing GREAT Prizes from Simms (Waders and Pack), Bridger Brewing, Colombo's Pizza & Pasta, Beacon Coffee Roasters, Stio Bozeman Mountain Studio, and others.

4:30PM | Norm Asbjornson Hall | Room 137
Pico Alt: “Past Climate of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: How Lessons from Lake Sediments Can Inform Our Future”
Pico Alt is a PhD candidate in the MSU Department of Earth Sciences and will discuss how members of MSU’s paleoecology laboratory use natural archives to uncover the vegetation and fire histories of our forests and present recent findings on the vegetation and climate history of the GYE.

This is offered as part of MSU Climate Week. To see the entire list of events, go to: https://www.montana.edu/communitydevelopment/climateweek.html

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC!

### Sponsored By MSU Climate Solutions Group, MSU Campus Climate Coalition,and Gallatin Valley Earth Day

### Free Raffle Drawing GREAT Prizes from Simms (Waders and Pack), Bridger Brewing, Colombo's Pizza & Pasta, Beacon Coffee Roasters, Stio Bozeman Mountain Studio, and others.