The Murie Center, in partnership with Grand Teton National Park, engages people to understand and commit to the enduring value of conserving wildlife and wild places.
The Murie Center, in partnership with Grand Teton National Park, engages people to understand and commit to the enduring value of conserving wildlife and wild places.
The Murie Center is proud to offer an array of programs in 2010 that promote science-based wilderness and wildlife conservation while inspiring creative interactions with the natural environment. Additional offerings will be publicized as details are formalized. For further information regarding any of the programs listed below, please email The Murie Center’s Director of Programs and Communications, Jon Mobeck, or call 307-739-2246, ext, 2.
Dates: June 24-27, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: Join the Murie Center and nationally renowned local photographer Henry H. Holdsworth for a long weekend with an animal that’s a little long in the face. Enjoy a stay at the historic Murie Ranch inside Grand Teton National Park and be treated to a glimpse of the fascinating world of this elusive yet endearing animal.
Price: $1,345 includes lodging for 3 nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and tuition; $995 includes all meals and tuition only.
Date: July 8, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: A women-specific day of casting, knots, entomology, and basic fishing know-how. A classic session in the morning will be followed by an afternoon at the river.
Price: $35 includes light breakfast, box lunch, classroom and field instruction and all equipment.
Dates: July 29 – August 1, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: Join Barbara Erb for a weekend of meditation, writing and retreat in nature at The Murie Center. Find your authentic voice and inner guidance as you reflect within the tranquility of the ranch. Discover your uniqueness while also realizing your connection with all that is.
Price: $450 includes lodging in a Murie Ranch cabin for three nights, all meals and tuition; $250 includes all meals and tuition only.
Painting By Joan Hoffman
Dates: August 19-22, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch - A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: At this retreat, participants saw and experienced connections to the natural world and learned to paint these connections. Our attitudes about landscapes develop our broader cultural and environmental awareness. All our Public Lands, from our National Parks to our Wilderness Study Areas, need our attention. Art is not just about an end product. People, art and nature cultivate healthy communities.
Price: $595 included lodging for 3 nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and tuition; $350 included all meals and tuition only
Dates: August 26-29, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: Join Wildlife Biologist and Yellowstone National Park wolf re-introduction specialist Doug Smith and Grand Teton National Park’s Senior Wildlife Biologist Steve Cain at the Murie Ranch to learn about the philosophical issues surrounding the presense of wolves within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Emmy-award winning wildlife cinematographer Bob Landis will welcome the group and show footage of Adolph Murie.
Price: $545 includes overnight accommodations for 3 nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and program tuition. $345 for local (non-lodging) fee for entire program which includes all meals and program tuition.
Dates: September 23 & 25, 2010
Location: Jackson Hole, WY-Center for the Arts
Description: Olaus and Mardy Murie were integral to the creation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1960. The Murie Center celebrates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Refuge with a long weekend of films and presentations.
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Cathy Shill
Dates: October 1-3, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: This creative retreat is for all kinds of poets, writers and artists who are interested in exploring the link between the many voices found in nature, and the wisdom of their own unique voice. Join Cathy Shill, biologist and nature guide, and Lyn Dalebout, biologist and poet as we venture to various locations and provide left and right brain exercises to link the power of place to the power of your imagination. Emphasis will be given to creative translation of personal insights and inspiration into journal form.
Price: $495 includes lodging for two nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and tuition; $295 includes meals and tuition only
Silhouette of Moose In Front Of The Tetons
Dates: October 7-10, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch - A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: Join the Murie Center and renowned Jackson Hole-based photographer Henry H. Holdsworth for a long weekend with an animal that’s a little long in the face. Henry H. Holdsworth, author and photographer of the recently published book “Moose of Yellowstone and the Tetons” and owner of Wild by Nature Gallery in Jackson, will be your host and guide on a journey into the secret lives of these wonderful and photogenic creatures.
Price: $1345 includes lodging in a Murie Ranch cabin for 3 nights, all meals and tuition; $995 includes all meals and tuition only
Erica Wheeler
Dates: October 21-24, 2010
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in Grand Teton National Park
Description: For writers and non-writers alike. All levels of experience. Join Erica Wheeler for a weekend exploring what place means to you. Reconnect with yourself and the land and receive tools to find and articulate your stories of place and belonging. Writing exercises, group discussion, supportive feedback and time in the beauty of the Tetons when the elk are bugling.
Price: $495 includes lodging in a Murie ranch cabin for 3 nights, all meals and tuition; $295 includes all meals and tuition only
