ENF 2018 Wildlife Historical Bus Tour
Stoney Creek Inn offers a discounted $79 per night rate for the same days. For reservations call: 815-777-2223 or through their website
Best Western offers a discounted $71.10 per night rate for the same days. For reservations call: 815-777-2577 or through their website
8:00 am -- Leave Ramada, Galena, IL
12:00 pm -- Lunch at Cracker Barrel Restaurant, Des Moines, Iowa
3:00 -- DeSoto Wildlife Refuge, home of the 1865 Steamboat, Bertrand
5:00 -- Mormon Trail Winter Quarters -- Paid
7:00 -- New Victorian Inn, York, Nebraska -- Paid
7:30 -- Dinner at The Kitchen, York, Nebraska
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
8:00 am -- Leave New Victorian Inn
9:00 -- Stuhr Pioneer Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska -- Paid
11:00 -- Great Platte River Road Archway Monument -- Paid
12:30 pm -- Lunch Buffet at The Alley Rose -- Paid
1:30 -- Fort Kearny State Historical Park -- Paid
3:30 -- Rowe Sanctuary and Iain Nicolson Audubon Center -- Paid
4:30 -- New Victorian Inn, Kearney, Neb. -- Paid
5:00 -- Dinner at HyVee Market Grill, Kearney, Neb. -- Paid
7:00 -- Fort Kearny State Recreation Area, Hike/Bike Trails -- PaidWednesday, March 14, 2018
8:00 am -- Leave New Victorian Inn
9:00 -- Funk Waterfowl Production Area -- Paid
10:00 -- Prairie Dog Federal Waterfowl Production Area -- Paid
11:30 -- Lunch at Country Cookin', Holdrege, Nebraska
12:30 pm -- Nebraska Prairie Museum, Holdrege, Nebraska -- Paid
3:00 -- Hastings Museum, Hastings, Nebraska -- Paid
5:00 -- Look for Prairie Dogs and Burrowing Owls
7:00 -- Dinner at Iron Skillet, York, Nebraska -- Paid
7:30 -- New Victorian Inn, York, Nebraska -- Paid
Thursday, March 15, 2018
8:00 am -- Leave New Victorian Inn
12:00 pm -- Lunch at Machine Shed Restaurant, Des Moines, Iowa
3:00 -- Visit Amana Colonies, Amana, Iowa -- Paid
6:00 -- Return to Ramada, Galena, IL
Your Tour guide -- Terrence N. Ingram
Terrence N. Ingram, Executive Director of the Eagle Nature Foundation, has been conducting tours to see bald eagles and other wildlife for over 50 years. He has organized, directed and taught environmental leadership training camps and workshops for over 30 years, both in Wisconsin and Canada.
He has been a keynote, banquet, and conference speaker for many local and state conventions, speaking on many topics, including beekeeping, bald eagles, birds of prey, bird watching, preservation, prairies and environmental leadership training. He has been a speaker at 40+ Earth Day Celebrations across the Midwest. He has been a federal bird bander for the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service for over 50 years. He has conducted research on the bald eagle for many organizations and businesses, including power companies, barge companies and the U. S. Army.
For over 20 years he has been Editor and Publisher of the Bald Eagle News, Nature News and the monthly Small Beekeeper's Journal. He photographed and produced a set of four filmstrips on the Birds of Prey for Coronet Films. He has photographed and produced the 16 mm film, Eagle Country, and has written the coffee table book, EAGLE.
For his many years of environmental preservation work he received the prestigious, Sol Feinstone Environmental Award from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and a Honor Roll Award from the National Izaak Walton League. Illinois’ Lt. Governor, Pat Quinn, named him a 2006 Illinois Environmental Hero. In 2015, the University of Wisconsin/Platteville honored him as an Outstanding Alumnus.
Tour Reservation Information
The tour cost is $895.00 per person, or $845.00 per person double occupancy, which includes the cost of the tour bus and the tour guide, three nights in motels, entrance fees to all locations as well as certain meals. ENF members receive a discounted rate of $795.00 or $745.00 dbl-occ. This rate is available to anyone who joins ENF at the time they register. - Each person will be responsible for four meals during the four days. Each motel has a free hot breakfast buffet. - This tour cost does not cover a possible stay at the Ramada, $69 or at the Stoney Creek Inn, $76, before or after the tour, or Best Western, $71.10, before or after the tour. - We will need a minimum of 12 persons registered and paid for this tour by Feb. 1, 2018. - There will be no trip insurance for participants on this trip. If ENF should cancel the trip, you will be refunded by ENF for 100% of your fees already paid. If you should cancel the trip, consider your fee a tax-deductible donation to ENF, as ENF will not be issuing a refund, if you should cancel for any reason. - We recommend that each person planning to join us for this tour get their own private trip insurance for the tour. - The tour bus will leave from and return to: Ramada, Galena, IL. 815-777-2043. Time for departure will be 8:00 AM sharp on March 12, 2018 and return at ~6:00 PM on March 15. Your vehicle may be parked for no charge in the Ramada parking lot while you are on the tour.
Registration and Payment
If you wish to make payment by check or cash, download the Historic Bus Tour brochure and registration form and send form and payment to:
Send your registration form and payment to:
The Eagle Nature Foundation, Ltd.
300 East Hickory Street
Apple River, IL 61001-9549
If you wish to pay online by credit card, debit card, gift card, you can register for the trip using
the PayPal links below. Please select the appropriate button below.
You can pay a $400 deposit up to Feb 1, 2018, and pay the remainder prior to Feb 15, 2018.
Or you can pay the full amount at once. Please select the appropriate link below.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
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Note: If you are paying online the days before a bus tour, please call us at 815-594-2306 so we can confirm your reservation.
Additional
This tour is sponsored by the Eagle Nature Foundation, (ENF). ENF is an international, tax-exempt, non profit 501(c)3 organization, which develops and implements habitat preservation strategies for endangered species, conducts a wide variety of nature education and awareness programs, engages in and supports bald eagle research, conducts fund-raising drives to preserve endangered species' habitats, and provides funds for monitoring efforts.
In addition to helping to save habitat, ENF is developing a nationwide program of publicity about the bald eagle and other endangered species to make the American public aware of the plight of our national symbol and the need to preserve the wilderness it requires to survive.
Throughout the year a variety of ENF publications and news releases present information about the bald eagle and other wildlife issues and problems, as well as events sponsored by the organization.
Membership is open to the public.