Join Week 6 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 6 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! Continue Reading →
Curious About…tracking rabbits and squirrels?
The Wenatchee Valley has been blanketed in snow this week, creating fresh opportunities for tracking wildlife in our neighborhoods. The edges of town are home to many small mammals, including Nuttall’s cottontail rabbits. Where trees dominate, we have both native and non-native squirrels. Continue Reading →
Join Week 5 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 5 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! Continue Reading →
Celebrating Volunteers- 2020 style
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 →
Stories in Place: Dog Rock Gorge
This “Stories in Place” post features a late-afternoon 2/9/21 trip report by naturalist Jenny Graevell, and the larger tale of how her conservation volunteerism has engendered a strong web of friendships. Continue Reading →
Join Week 4 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 4 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! Continue Reading →
Join Week 3 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 3 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations!
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Stories in Place: Wenatchee Calls You Home
Today, I’m launching an occasional series titled “Stories in Place,” I plan to feature individual perspectives about how landscapes anchors us to home. I’m pleased to feature guest blogger, Jana Fischback, Executive Director of Sustainable Wenatchee, Continue Reading →
Join Week 2 – Naturalist Challenge
Welcome to Week 2 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! I invite you to rustle up a pair of snowshoes, shoe gripper/spikes, or cross county skis and head out to create your own adventure.
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Curious About…tracking cats and dogs?
The Wenatchee Valley has been blanketed in snow this week, creating fresh opportunities for tracking dogs and cats, right in our yards and neighborhoods. Our towns are often travel corridors for wild Felines and Canines, like coyote, cougar, and bobcat. By learning to identify domestic dog and cat prints in snow and mud, we are training our brains to know when we see a wild member of these animal families. Continue Reading →