Category: Wenatchee Watershed

yellow bellied marmot

Join Week 10 – Naturalist Challenge

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Welcome to final week of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! March brings us the first signs of spring, while our mountains are still shining with snow. Try to get outside early when the mud is firm under foot! Continue Reading →

Antelope bitterbrush leaves are wedge-shaped and 3-lobed near the tip

Join Week 9 – Naturalist Challenge

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Welcome to Week 9 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! March brings us the first signs of spring, while our mountains are still shining with snow. Try to get outside early when the mud is firm under foot! Continue Reading →

Western Meadowlark

Join Week 8 – Naturalist Challenge

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Welcome to Week 8 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! March brings us the first signs of spring, while our mountains are still shining with snow. Try to get outside early when the mud is firm under foot! Continue Reading →

Sagebrush buttercup (Ranunculus glaberrimus)

Join Week 7 – Naturalist Challenge

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Welcome to Week 7 of our 10-week challenge, designed to encourage new naturalist discoveries as we continue to practice social distancing and wait for the coming vaccinations! March brings us the first signs of spring, while our mountains are still shining with snow. Try to get outside early when the mud is firm under foot! Continue Reading →

Looking N from Lake Wenatchee State Park

Join Week 6 – Naturalist Challenge

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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 … Plant Recovery After Fire?

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Plants are closely attuned to the places they live, their habitat. Plant species differ in their ecological amplitude to respond to changes to their habitat. They grow successfully in places within their tolerance levels for environmental factors such as cold, shade, or drought combined with abiotic factors such as soil type and geographic locale. In addition to usual fluctuations in the growing conditions habitat can be altered, at times dramatically, by disturbances such as fire or flood. Continue Reading →