Announcing the Wenatchee Area Field Guide
The Wenatchee Area Field Guide is light-weight, waterproof, and fits into your pocket. Use to help identify common native plants and animals Continue Reading →
Category: Wenatchee Valley
John DeGraaf’s And Beauty For All
See John de Graaf’s film, Redefining Prosperity, at the Wenatchee Library on April 16 at 6pm. He will introduce “And Beauty For All” Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 15
East Wenatchee resident and Wenatchee Naturalist, Keith Minard, enrolled in the fall 2018 course as a retiree, wanting to rekindle his childhood habit of keeping a field journal. He dug Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 12
Throughout the seasons, the Wenatchee and Columbia River watersheds inspires so many of us with beauty and wonder. I’m pleased to share three perspectives of Wenatchee Naturalist class members, Jean Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 11
I know you’ll enjoy meeting three class members who each applied their creative outlooks into projects. Read on to meet Wenatchee Naturalists, Seiko Arakaki Betsy Dudash, and Julie Smith. Seiko Continue Reading →
Two Leading Natural History Authors Speaking in Wenatchee!
Next week, the Wenatchee Public Library is featuring two terrific Washington authors, Robert Michael Pyle and Jack Nisbet. Both are regionally and nationally acclaimed natural historians, gifted writers of award-winning Continue Reading →
Columbia Rolls On Event: Salmon Homecoming
Wenatchee Naturalist, Mara Bohman, invites us all to attend this free event on Nov. 15, 2018, at the Cashmere Riverside Center, 6:30-8:30pm They called them June Hogs, the largest and Continue Reading →
A terrific new phone app for Pacific NW tree ID!
Fall is a great time to start to learn more about our native trees, especially conifers. And, a new phone app allows you to carry a field guide in your Continue Reading →
But Where do the Animals Sleep? by Amanda Fisher
At our final Wenatchee Naturalist class last December, Amanda wowed us all with her lyrical poem about Wenatchee watershed wildlife. Read the poem aloud to delight in her magical use Continue Reading →
Plein Air painting “Bridged” by Cindy Rietveldt
Wenatchee Naturalist, Cindy Rietveldt, can be found almost every morning walking her dog walk along the Wenatchee River in Peshastin. Each day, she observes, takes pictures and then goes home Continue Reading →