General Meeting: Guest Speaker Tony Jones

Title: Owl Roads Lead to The Sax-Zim Bog of Minnesota

Description of Topic: Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota is a bird-lover’s paradise, spanning over 300 square miles of mixed peat bogs, spruce and tamarack forest, meadows, and wetlands. It supports more than 240 species of birds, including winter specialties like Great Gray and Northern Hawk Owls, Pine Grosbeaks, and Boreal Chickadees. In the summer, it has specialties like Golden-winged Warbler and Connecticut Warbler. Beyond birds, the bog is rich in wildlife — from bobcats, martens, and wolves to deer, moose, and a surprising variety of insects and wildflowers.

Bio of Speaker: Tony G. Jones is an attorney at the firm of Ruesch Reeve Werrett & Jones PLLC in Hurricane, Utah. He practices law throughout the week but he is a birder and lepidopterist on the weekends. Tony has degrees in Biology and Japanese from the University of Utah and a law degree from Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He has been a birder for over 28 years. His dual interest in butterflies has come in the last 15 years. He served on the Utah Ornithological Society board and has served as President of the Utah Lepidopterists’ Society for the last 15 years. His birding travels have been throughout the country, including Ohio and Minnesota and he has visited the Sax Zim Bog in Minnesota in both the summer and winter.