Wildlife biologist to talk about birds at Dungeness River Nature Center

SEQUIM — Scott Gremel will present “Early Successional and Non-Forested Bird Habitat on the Olympic Peninsula” at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Gremel will address a meeting of the Dungeness River Audubon Society in the Dungeness River Nature Center’s Rainshadow Hall, 2099 W. Hendrickson Road.

Gremel, a wildlife biologist at the Olympic National Park, will discuss how fires, river flooding, channel migration, avalanches and other seemingly disastrous events can actually create rich habitat for birds.

In addition to monitoring spotted owls, Gremel has studied other bird communities in burn areas and the Olympic pocket gophers in mountain meadows.

The presentation is free and open to the public.