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WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 9
Chelsea Evans is a young professional who has choose to return to her hometown of Cashmere. She jumped into last fall’s evening Wenatchee Naturalist course while working her day-job at Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 7
Chapter 7 brings three more stories of new deep connections to North Central Washington’s landscapes by three class members. Susan Douglas was our longest-distance commuter, driving 70 miles from Almira Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 6
One component of the Wenatchee Naturalist course is to learn to quickly recognize 100 common plants and animals of the Wenatchee watershed. Class member Jan Evans created a fun Charades Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 5
In December, the most recent class of Wenatchee Naturalists completed their course by presenting final projects. Creativity ran high as participants reflected back on their personal growth over the 12-week Continue Reading →
Desert Night Snake Discovered at Saddle Rock
Budding herpetologist*, Torsten Watkins, is a 6th grader at Orchard Middle School and he likes to spend his free time seeking out native reptiles and amphibians. He and his Dad Continue Reading →
Brendan Morrison’s Eclipse Journey
Meet Wenatchee native, Brendan Morrison – a photographer, designer, and videographer. I asked Brendan to share his recent journey to Idaho to see the Ecilpse in the path of totality. Continue Reading →
The Goldfinch Farmers
I know you’ll enjoy this piece by Carolyn Kinne, retired Columbia Elementary teacher and Jock Kinne, retired wheat rancher and Wenatchee Naturalist. They enjoy their table-top home on Wenatchee Heights. Continue Reading →
Heather Murphy & Upper Basin Birders
Today marked the 200th time a bird survey has been conducted at Fish Lake by citizen scientists! This morning, a pontoon boat circumnavigated Fish Lake carrying binocular-wearing volunteers who observed Continue Reading →
National Habitat Network features Wenatchee Naturalist Lisa Robison
It was exciting to open the July enewsletter of the Habitat Network, a citizen science project offered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and see the lead article about Wenatchee Continue Reading →