Join Week 3 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 3 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations!
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Stories in Place: Wenatchee Calls You Home
Today, I’m launching an occasional series titled “Stories in Place,” I plan to feature individual perspectives about how landscapes anchors us to home. I’m pleased to feature guest blogger, Jana Fischback, Executive Director of Sustainable Wenatchee, Continue Reading →
Join Week 2 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 2 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! I invite you to rustle up a pair of snowshoes, shoe gripper/spikes, or cross county skis and head out to create your own adventure.
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Curious About…tracking cats and dogs?
The Wenatchee Valley has been blanketed in snow this week, creating fresh opportunities for tracking dogs and cats, right in our yards and neighborhoods. Our towns are often travel corridors for wild Felines and Canines, like coyote, cougar, and bobcat. By learning to identify domestic dog and cat prints in snow and mud, we are training our brains to know when we see a wild member of these animal families. Continue Reading →
Join our 10-week Naturalist Challenge!
I’ve put together a 10-week challenge to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! Starting on Monday, Jan. 25, 2020 and running for ten weeks. Continue Reading →
Curious About … Local Wintering Mule Deer?
What brings so many deer to our valley? How are they doing? Why do I see more deer during wintertime? I reached out to WDFW biologist Devon Comstock to find out about current mule deer research that is underway locally. Studies are designed to help biologists learn more about wintering mule deer habitat needs. Continue Reading →
Curious About … Western U.S. Migrating Mule Deer?
One reason that mule deer can thrive in so many varied habitats is their ability to be seasonal long-distance migrants. Mule deer follow the same routes, season to season, and year to year. Continue Reading →
12/6/2020 -Arctic NWR 60th Anniversary- Celebrate, then Advocate!
On Sunday, Dec. 6th, join polar bears, caribou, and myriad of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl to celebrate 60 years of protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Tragically, President Trump has just announced the sale of oil and gas leases on the Arctic NWR’s 1002 area of the coastal plain, the critical calving grounds for the Porcupine Caribou herd. This push is the result of Congress passing a controversial tax bill in 2017 that mandates leasing on the coastal plain, sacred lands of the Gwich’in people and vital habitat for caribou, polar bears and migratory birds. Continue Reading →
Kitchen Window Community Science
Becoming a Project Feederwatch volunteer can be one way to battle feeling gloomy all winter long, November to April. Consider becoming a community scientist making bird observations as you look out your window. You will join over 20,000 Canadian and U.S. participants during this is kick-off week for Project Feederwatch: Continue Reading →
Leaves are not Litter!
This week, my yard turned golden with maple and aspen leaf fall. It was perfect timing when my email in-box announced the The Xerces Society’s blog post “Leaves Are Not Continue Reading →