Outdoor Skills & Ethics Workshop

Location: Wenatchee Valley College-Grove Recital Hall-MAC The Subaru/Leave no Trace Traveling Trainers will be presenting an interactive, hands-on workshop teaching participants to minimize impacts when recreating outdoors. Attendees will learn: How to prepare for your outdoor adventure to minimize risk impact. The three methods of pooping in the outdoors, why trash should be packed out, and what to do with dirty dishwater. How to build a Leave No Trace campfire to prevent harming ecosystems. Where to set up camp and […]

Safety Around Water

Make water safety awareness a priority. Every day, ten people in the US loose their lives to drowning. About 1 in 5 of those fatalities are children under 14. The Wenatchee Valley YMCA is offering FREE community swim lessons to 500 youth, teens, and adults as part of our Y SPLASH outreach. Registration for the weeklong event opens on March 23. In addition to learning lifesaving water safety and self-rescue skills, participants can increase their physical activity by swimming. Swimming […]

Living with Wildfire

May 23, 6-7pm at the Saddle Rock Trailhead. Presenter Patrick Haggerty, Cascadia Project Coordinator, will describe how Cascadia’s helps private landowners meet personal goals and also benefit native plants and animals.  Patrick will share examples of his work with a variety of local people to develop plans to better steward their lands and increase fire resiliency. For more information visit www.cdlandtrust.org

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