Cultivating awareness, understanding, and stewardship of the Wenatchee River region
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 →
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 →
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 →
Two young professionals, Marjie Lodwick and Malarie Morgan, commuted down from Leavenworth all fall to participate in the Wenatchee Naturalist course. Both were able to immediately apply class materials to 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 →
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 →
North Central Washington is filled with wildflowers, awaiting discovery. Here is a short list of identification tools you can carry with you into the field. 3 photo field guides in Continue Reading →
6 Viewpoints: Major Vegetation Zone Classifications for Washington’s east-side Cascades: Watchable Wildflowers: A Columbia Basin Guide: B.L.M. Woodland Park ZooWashington Wildlife Plants of Southern Interior B.C. & the Continue Reading →
Last summer on July 7, 2014, my husband and I landed in Fairbanks, Alaska after a 10-day wilderness river trip. We turned on our cell phones and found text messages Continue Reading →
Situated north of Ephrata on state-owned lands in a sagebrush-covered coulee, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is successfully running an innovative, semi-wild pygmy rabbit recovery program, now in Continue Reading →