A terrific new phone app for Pacific NW tree ID!
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 →
Tag: habitats
But Where do the Animals Sleep? by Amanda Fisher
At our final Wenatchee Naturalist class last December, Amanda wowed us all with her lyrical poem about Wenatchee watershed wildlife. Read the poem aloud to delight in her magical use Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 9
Chelsea Evans is a young professional who has choose to return to her hometown of Cashmere. She jumped into last fall’s evening Wenatchee Naturalist course while working her day-job at Continue Reading →
Citizen Science Tools for everyone
We live in an exciting time where the internet has birthed a new field: Citizen Science. The Oxford English Dictionary recently defined citizen science as “scientific work undertaken by members Continue Reading →
Plein Air painting “Bridged” by Cindy Rietveldt
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 →
National Habitat Network features Wenatchee Naturalist Lisa Robison
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 →
Citizen Science in action at CDLT’s Mountain Home Preserve
This morning, a 2017 Eastmont High School graduate and summer intern at the Wenatchee World, Hunter Brawley, came along on his first-ever bird-watching outing. He used his camera to capture Continue Reading →
Mara Bohman: Salmon Recovery in North Central Washington
Wenatchee Naturalist, Mara Bohman, shares her article, Salmon Recovery in North Central Washington, originally published in the Wenatchee World as an April 2017 four-part series on local salmon recovery efforts. Mara Bohman Continue Reading →
Major Vegetation Zone Classifications for Washington’s east-side Cascades
6 Viewpoints: Major Vegetation Zone Classifications for Washington’s east-side Cascades: Watchable Wildflowers: A Columbia Basin Guide: B.L.M. Woodland Park ZooWashington Wildlife Plants of Southern Interior B.C. & the Continue Reading →
Wildfires affect on local landscape
Last summer on July 7, 2014, my husband and I landed in Fairbanks, Alaska after a 10-day wilderness river trip. We turned on our cell phones and found text messages Continue Reading →