Out & About: Hazen Audel to celebrate nature at Ferris
OUTGOING – Hazen Audel, a former Ferris High School biology teacher and host of NatGeo TV’s Survive the Tribe, will present a program in Spokane entitled “Fascinating Stories of Natural History and the People that Live Along Side Them.”
The talk will be Wednesday, 7 p.m. at Ferris High School Auditorium, 3020 E. 37th.
“My goal is to get everyone, especially students, excited about science,” he said.
Audel’s been a wilderness instructor and guide for Outward Bound Outdoor School and Boulder Outdoor Survival School and he has guided nature trips to the Amazon, Central America and the South Pacific.
Audel has recently finished filming Primal Survivor, a new National Geographic Channel series set to air in 2016. It documents his adventures living with and working with indigenous people in some of the world’s most remote places.
Wednesday’s program is free but donations can be made to Ferris Environmental Sciences.
Centennial Trail extension funded
OUTROUTE – Friends of the Centennial Trail has made a $20,000 matching funds gift to Washington State Parks for a west end trail extension.
Funds were generated by donations and the annual Spokane Bike Swap and Expo held in April. In the past four years, $98,000 in Bike Swap proceeds have been invested in the friends’ Trail Builder’s Fund.
The Northwest Extension will add nearly two miles of separated trail from Sontag Park to the Nine Mile Falls Recreation Area. The project launched in October and will be completed in spring.
The Spokane River Centennial Trail has been “a source of community pride, enjoyment and free recreation for 25 years,” said Loreen McFaul, executive director. “There is great synergy right now to complete its gaps, upgrade the asphalt surface and make it easier to navigate.”
The Northwest Extension will bring trail users to the Nine Mile Falls Recreation Area on Lake Spokane. By summer, trail users will have 39 miles of trail in Washington linked to 24 miles in Idaho.
Forest meeting set
OUTREACH – The Forest Service has scheduled a public meeting to discuss the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Walla Walla Community College campus in Clarkston, Washington.