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Wenatchee Outdoors Welcomes New Volunteers

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What is Wenatchee Outdoors? Our organization is a non-profit 501(c)3 agency focused on being a community hub for local non-profits and businesses related to nature and outdoor recreation. We help you save time to find the trail you are looking for whether that be for mountain biking, hiking, trail running and many more outdoor human powered sports. We have over 700 guidebook posts which you can filter based on ability level, family friendly, dog friendly, handicap accessible and by location. Continue Reading →

Snowy Owl on rock pile Photo: Marilyn Sherling

Sense of Place: Surveying Raptors on the Waterville Plateau

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This week’s guest post by Marilyn Sherling includes stunning photos taken this winter during monthly community science surveys on the Waterville Plateau. Marilyn and her daughter, Amanda, are monthly volunteers for the East Cascades Audubon Society’s Winter Raptors Survey Project. This winter, over 300 volunteers across five states participated, surveying 451 routes. Continue Reading →

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Celebrating Volunteers- 2020 style

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Annually, Wenatchee Naturalists gather to celebrate volunteerism and to honor individuals who completed between 20-100 hours of conservation volunteering. Join me here in this blog to commend members of the class of 2019 who found themselves in a life circumstance that allowed for volunteering, despite the limits of a pandemic. Continue Reading →

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Wenatchee Naturalist Stories: Chapter 17

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Members of the 2019 class shared volunteer projects at our final session. Four people jumped right into community engagement in support of the program mission. Continue Reading →

Celebrating Volunteers!

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The annual all-Wenatchee Naturalist volunteer recognition social on Nov. 17th recognized 18 volunteers and awarded service pins. Guest science, Mark Oswood, talked about Alaska’s boreal rivers. Continue Reading →

Art-of-Community features Wenatchee Naturalists

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In his Art of Community Wenatchee World Podcast, Rufus Woods explores creative ways to build community.  Earlier this fall, several of us had the chance to visit with him about the Continue Reading →

National Habitat Network features Wenatchee Naturalist Lisa Robison

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It was exciting to open the July enewsletter of the Habitat Network, a citizen science project offered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and see the lead article about  Wenatchee Continue Reading →