Tag: Wenatchee Foothills

Dry Gulch

Hiking for Health in the Wenatchee Foothills

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Leslie Bigos chronicle how starting to do a new exercies daily exercise has brough new joy to her life. Her daily hike became more than just self-improvement; as my fitness improved, I started enjoying how the light changed on Saddle Rock from one day to the next. Continue Reading →

A forgotten rodent cache, now lupine patch

Shrub-steppe Sprouts from a Forgotten Seed Cache

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Forgotten seed caches sometimes sprout in the shrub-steppe. Rodents like deer mice, voles, and pocket gophers cache seeds from antelope bitterbrush and lupine that if un-eaten, sprout and grow in to the next generation of plants. Continue Reading →

Coyote paw print photo by Susan Ballinger

WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 13

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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 →

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 →

Entiat River at Stormy Creek Preserve Photo by Carolyn Kinkade

WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 10

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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 →