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Science meets art at Flathead Lake Bio Station

by By Margaret E. Davis
| November 22, 2023 12:00 PM


“Who here loves plants?” Seattle artist and former river guide and garden designer Sarah Jones asked the few dozen of us assembled for a day alongside Flathead Lake.

Since 1908 the Yellow Bay site has served as a biological field station, the oldest in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Science happens here year-round. In the fall the Flathead Lake Biological Station also becomes home to artists, courtesy the Missoula-based nonprofit Open AIR.

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