Events

NCW EcoChallenge, May 6 - 19. Registration opens 4/9. The NCW EcoChallenge is a community-wide competition for Chelan and Douglas county residents. Participants challenge themselves to try new, environmentally-friendly behaviors for two weeks. You choose the behaviors you want to commit to doing (from dozens of options) and report your progress online daily. In addition to learning how to reduce your carbon footprint, you have a chance to win valuable individual prizes and cash for the nonprofit agency of your choice! […]

Sleepy Hollow Riverside Ramble View PDF Date Mon, 05/13/2019 Time 5:30-7:00 pm Location Lower Sleepy Hollow Preserve Sign up online here! Give your mother the gift of an evening spent in nature. One of our newest protected properties, Sleepy Hollow Preserve contains almost 40 acres of land along the lower Wenatchee. On this outing, we will explore what makes this place so special and important to protect. This takes place the day after Mother’s Day, so we will be including […]

On Monday, May 13, at 5:30 Bob Carson, Phillips Professor of Geology & Environmental Studies at Whitman College will be giving his famous Missoula Flood Demonstration at Walla Walla Point Park, near Picnic Shelter #1.  The Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute is sponsoring it. Directions to picnic shelter 1. A video of Bob Carson can be viewed below doing the demonstration last summer on the Green River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsVkG4XcbiE