Category: Wenatchee Valley

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 →

Horan Natural Area . Photographer Bruce McCammon

WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 12

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Throughout the seasons, the Wenatchee and Columbia River watersheds inspires so many of us with beauty and wonder.  I’m pleased to share three perspectives of Wenatchee Naturalist class members, Jean Continue Reading →

Wonderland by Seiko Arakaki

WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 11

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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 →

Two Leading Natural History Authors Speaking in Wenatchee!

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Next week, the Wenatchee Public Library is featuring two terrific Washington authors, Robert Michael Pyle and Jack Nisbet.  Both are regionally and nationally acclaimed natural historians, gifted writers of award-winning Continue Reading →

Douglas-fir has a pointed spear-like branch-tip bud.

A terrific new phone app for Pacific NW tree ID!

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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 →

Cindy Rietvelt's painting "Bridged" of the railroad bridge that crosses the Wenatchee River, west of the Apple Capital Look Trail pedestrian bridge

Plein Air painting “Bridged” by Cindy Rietveldt

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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 →