Golden October
Have you made time to go “larching?” The word is a bit silly, but gaining popularity in Washington as more and more of us anticipate the turn-of-season by our two species of deciduous conifers. Continue Reading →
Tag: habitats
Curious About … Plant Recovery After Fire?
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 →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 15
East Wenatchee resident and Wenatchee Naturalist, Keith Minard, enrolled in the fall 2018 course as a retiree, wanting to rekindle his childhood habit of keeping a field journal. He dug Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 13
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 →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 12
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 →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 11
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 →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 10
The 2018 Fall Wenatchee Naturalist class culminated with a lively December gathering where each person shared their own personal reflection about becoming a naturalist. This is the first of several Continue Reading →
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Coastal Plain – A Visual Conversation
Join North Central Washington Audubon members, Susan Ballinger and Tim and Mary Gallagher, as they share stories and photographs of caribou, grizzly bears, birds, and plants from their adventures to Continue Reading →
Two Leading Natural History Authors Speaking in Wenatchee!
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 →
Columbia Rolls On Event: Salmon Homecoming
Wenatchee Naturalist, Mara Bohman, invites us all to attend this free event on Nov. 15, 2018, at the Cashmere Riverside Center, 6:30-8:30pm They called them June Hogs, the largest and Continue Reading →