Category: Mammals

Announcing the Wenatchee Area Field Guide

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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 →

A forgotten rodent cache, now lupine patch

Shrub-steppe Sprouts from a Forgotten Seed Cache

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Forgotten seed caches sometimes sprout in the shrub-steppe. Rodents like deer mice, voles, and pocket gophers cache seeds from antelope bitterbrush and lupine that if un-eaten, sprout and grow in to the next generation of plants. Continue Reading →

Coyote paw print photo by Susan Ballinger

WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 13

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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 →

Central Washington’s Rebounding Pygmy Rabbits

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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 →

Unlocking the needs and habits of our mule deer

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The foothills are softly greening up, bright yellow buttercups are in bloom, and male western meadowlarks sing loudly from atop sagebrush. From our human perspective, the harsh conditions of winter Continue Reading →