Cultivating awareness, understanding, and stewardship of the Wenatchee River region
The American goldfinch are small social resident songbirds active in our neighborhoods. Watch for the lemon yellow male with a black cap and groups of birds flying together, calling “potato chip.” Continue Reading →
Northern Flickers are common across North America and using drumming and calling during the breeding season to communicate with mates. Continue Reading →
Visit the Chelan Ridge HawkWatch International site to view and learn about migrating raptors. Continue Reading →
Last fall, three intrepid adults commuted from the north to take part in the 12-week Wenatchee Naturalist course: Darlene Schoenwald arrived from Withrop, Don France traveled from Manson, and Christy Nielsen Continue Reading →
During the Wenatchee Naturalist course, each participant visits their own field site and makes weekly field journal observations. At the end of the course, each person creates a presentation, sharing Continue Reading →
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 →
As our days grow darker, I’m looking forward to ecologist John Winnie Jr.’s Ecuador travelogue, filled with light and life. Mark your calendar so you can take a break from Continue Reading →
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 →
We live in an exciting time where the internet has birthed a new field: Citizen Science. The Oxford English Dictionary recently defined citizen science as “scientific work undertaken by members Continue Reading →
This morning, a 2017 Eastmont High School graduate and summer intern at the Wenatchee World, Hunter Brawley, came along on his first-ever bird-watching outing. He used his camera to capture Continue Reading →