Red Barn Event - The Return of Wápupxn (Canada Lynx)

Streaming link: https://youtube.com/live/Y3AbqeQaUl0?feature=share

This is a FREE event with a donation basket at the door.
Doors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Conservation Northwest, the Okanogan Nation Alliance, the Province of British Columbia, Okanogan Region Trappers and a team of dedicated individuals have begun implementing a five-year project that will restore wápupxn, one of our brothers, back to their ancestral lands. Our high mountain ecosystems have been out of balance since the disappearance of wápupxn in the 1980s when they vanished from the landscape.

Our goal is to implement a Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) population augmentation to restore wápupxn to the Kettle Range in northeast Washington. The Colville Tribes are dedicated to the long-term monitoring and protection of this culturally important species.

Presenter:

Rose Piccinini is a Senior Wildlife Biologist for the Colville Tribe’s Fish and Wildlife Department. She graduated from WSU with a degree in Wildlife Ecology in 2004 and has been working as a field biologist for the last 20 years. Rose started her career studying the iconic sharp-tailed grouse; an endangered species that is found in native grassland and shrub steppe habitats. After years of working in the drier habitats, Rose transitioned to the forest environment where she worked with teams to protect wildlife resources impacted by timber management proposals. Rose conducted surveys for Northern goshawks, great gray owls and other forest specific species. Now as a District Biologist, Rose works in the Population Management Division where she participates in population management for all wildlife species on the Reservation, North Half and the Tribes’ Usual and Accustomed Areas. Seasonally she can be found in the field trapping and monitoring Canada lynx and gray wolves, counting waterfowl and loons, checking on eagle nests, and flying in helicopters to count moose, deer, elk and big horn sheep.