2024 ​Speaker Series

Most of our speaker programs will be available to attend via ZOOM. 
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November

Northern California Bats
Saturday, November 16th, 2024, 6:30 PM
​Quincy Library, 445 Jackson Street
NorCal Bats is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of bats throughout Northern California. In addition, they are committed to public education regarding the environmental benefits of bats and dispelling fears and myths that lead to the death of roosts and colonies. Located in the Sacramento Valley, trained volunteers care for injured and orphaned bats throughout the valley and surrounding foothills.

Plumas Audubon Society is honored to host NorCal Bats here in Quincy. Join us November 16th at 6:30pm at the Quincy Public Library to learn about these animals and their importance. Learning about the ecosystem services bats provide and using that knowledge to inform others in turn helps to protect our natural world. Their presentation will dispel misconceptions about bats and discuss how their work helps to save these highly valuable mammals with education and rescue. In addition to their presentation, attendees will get an opportunity to view up to three local species up close and in person! 

​Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children or students, and pre-registration will be required due to limited space. NorCalBats is funded entirely through donations and presentations. They do not receive any funding from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, US Department of Agriculture, any state or federal agency, or major corporation. “Help us save the bats of California! Please contribute” reads their website: norcalbats.org
About the speaker: Corky Quirk is the founder of NorCal Bats, an organization that provides care for injured bats and educational programs for libraries, school, nature programs, fairs and other events throughout the region. Corky has been working intensely with native bats since 2004 and has educated thousands of people. She works with injured and orphaned bats, returning them to the wild and keeps a captive colony of non-releasable bats for use in education. She is permitted through the CA Department of Fish and Wildlife and the USDA. Corky also is responsible for maintaining the website, norcalbats.org.
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She is also an experienced environmental educator who got her start with Camp Fire Boys and Girls. She has an undergraduate degree in natural resource planning and interpretation from Humboldt State University. She teaches three days a week at Yolo Basin Foundation, a wetland education program in the Sacramento Valley, in addition to her work with bats.

July

Cultivating Connectivity: Fish Passage & Aquatic Connectivity
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024, 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
​Quincy Library, 445 Jackson Street
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June

Cultivating Connectivity: Local Carnivore Research
Saturday, April 17th, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM
​Quincy Library, 445 Jackson Street
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May

Cultivating Connectivity: Citizen Science
Tuesday, June 4th, 2024, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
West End Theatre, 541 Main St, Quincy
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April

Cultivating Connectivity: Wildlife Corridors
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024, 6:30-8:00 PM
​Quincy Library, 445 Jackson Street​​

March

Friends of California Condors, Wild and Free
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, 6:00-7:00 PM
​Quincy Library, 445 Jackson Street​
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Lane Frank is a Board Member at Friends of California Condors Wild and Free. He's been involved with the organization since 2013 and has been viewing CACOs since the late 1990s when he started working at his company’s radar test site in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Sylmar, in the northern SFV. 

​Friends of California Condors Wild and Free is a group of volunteers that work closely with the U S Fish and Wildlife Service to promote the continued recovery of the California condor focusing on outreach, education, research, and support of the cooperative stewardship. Including the Friends group, there are 22 organizations supporting the CACO recovery program, and without their continual participation the recovery program would not be possible. They also perform refuge maintenance, conduct on-refuge tours, and provide limited financial assistance to the USFWS for needed equipment such as nest cameras.
Since moving to Plumas County in 2019, Lane has been providing education about these birds to interested parties and some grassroots education about lead alternatives to local hunters and the effects of lead on the local wildlife, specifically the local birds.​

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Last year's speakers...
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Plumas County Big Year:
365 days of discovery, connection, contribution, and fowl obsession in the Lost Sierra
​(Part One)
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Paul Hardy shared the birds, the data, lessons learned, and personal reflections about his (successful) quest to break the Plumas County Big Year record in 2022.

Paul founded the Feather River Land Trust in 1999, where he served as Executive Director for 17 years. ​His 30+ years of conservation, land management, and non-profit experience includes working as an avian scientist for the University of Arizona for 3 years, a wildlife biologist on the Plumas National Forest for 5 years, ​co-creating the Sierra-Cascade Land Trust Council and Northern Sierra Partnership,​ and ​serving on the​ boards of the California Council of Land Trusts and Plumas Audubon Society.
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Paul was born beside the Middle Fork Feather River at the Western Pacific Railroad Hospital in Portola, where he grew up, graduating from Portola High School in 1988. He and his brother, Mark, were lucky to have parents (Richard and Becky Hardy) who took them fishing, hunting, hiking, wildlife watching, and camping throughout the Feather River Watershed and western U.S. After obtaining degrees in wildlife biology from the Universities of California and Arizona, Paul moved back to the Feather River region in 1998 to help start FRLT. Paul recently launched Hardy Conservation and the Center for Conservation Renewal; however, his primary job and joy is supporting his teenage kids, Emmalyn and Andrew, in Quincy, California with lots of help from friends and family.
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Did you miss it? Watch the recording on YouTube!
Plumas County Big Year:
365 days of discovery, connection, contribution, and fowl obsession in the Lost Sierra
(Part Two)

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Paul Hardy shared the rest of the story about the birds, the data, lessons learned, and personal reflections about his (successful) quest to break the Plumas County Big Year record in 2022.

Did you miss it? Watch the recording on YouTube!

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