Events

Family Winter in the Wild Weekend and Day Adventures Weekends: 2/11-2/14 or 2/19-2/21 Days: 2/15, 2/16, 2/17, 2/18 Basecamp Cascadia is teaming up with Winter Wildlands Alliance Snow School to provide day and weekend adventures to connect families (open to all ages) to the world of snow science and winter recreation. Both options (day or weekend) offer a four-hour winter adventure complete with snowshoeing, a winter ecology trek, snow science, and sledding. For more information click here.

Healing The Big River masterfully combines the art of visual storytelling with passionate essays. From the source, a tiny spring in the Canadian Rockies, to the sea, readers are guided on a journey back to the origins of the 1243 mile river and learn about the complicated history and impact of the Columbia River Treaty .The twelve contributing authors, a mix of first nations, tribes, and salmon recovery advocates, speak of their relationship to the Columbia and advocate for a […]

Family Winter in the Wild Weekend and Day Adventures Weekends: 2/11-2/14 or 2/19-2/21 Days: 2/15, 2/16, 2/17, 2/18 Basecamp Cascadia is teaming up with Winter Wildlands Alliance Snow School to provide day and weekend adventures to connect families (open to all ages) to the world of snow science and winter recreation. Both options (day or weekend) offer a four-hour winter adventure complete with snowshoeing, a winter ecology trek, snow science, and sledding. For more information click here.

Hosted by the Chelan Douglas Land Trust REGISTER HERE In honor of Black History Month, join noted writer and ornithologist, Dr. Drew Lanham, along with Derek Sheffield and Dr. Joan Qazi, and other members of the WVC Sustainability Committee, for a reading and conversation on the many intersections between race and the environment during this species moment when the life of the planet hinges on the decisions we make today. CDLT is a co-sponsor of this event. This event will happen via Zoom […]

Family Winter in the Wild Weekend and Day Adventures Weekends: 2/11-2/14 or 2/19-2/21 Days: 2/15, 2/16, 2/17, 2/18 Basecamp Cascadia is teaming up with Winter Wildlands Alliance Snow School to provide day and weekend adventures to connect families (open to all ages) to the world of snow science and winter recreation. Both options (day or weekend) offer a four-hour winter adventure complete with snowshoeing, a winter ecology trek, snow science, and sledding. For more information click here.

Hosted by the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center Environmental Film and Speaker Series: Canoeing the Vanishing Arctic Join us for a Zoom presentation of “Canoeing the Vanishing Arctic: Down the Hood River to the Arctic Sound” on Tuesday, February 23 at 7 PM. This presentation by Andy Dappen details a canoe trip that local Wenatchee residents embarked on in order to explore the rapidly-changing Arctic. The presentation is highlighted by a reading of Paul Hessburg’s ballad-style poetry that distills […]

Event by WSU Extension Puget Sound Forest Stewardship Virtual Event Do you want to learn new things about enjoying and caring for your wooded property? Do you want to learn things like why so many trees are dying and what to do; how to protect your property from wildfire; agroforestry and nontimber product opportunities; how to improve wildlife habitat; how to successfully plant and care for young trees; and much more? Do you want to participate in roundtables and discussion panels […]

Hosted by the Cascadia Conservation District Join us Mondays in March at 7-pm via Zoom to learn from our experts: March 1: Native Plant Selection and Care with Mel Asher March 8: Native Plants for a Firewise Home with Al Murphy March 15: Noxious Weed Control with Julia Sanderson March 22: Using Native Plants in Landscaping with Betsy Dudash RSVP at www.cascadiacd.org or by calling (509) 436-1601.

Indigenous Language Class Hosted by Wenatchee River Institute Join Annette Timentwa, Language Curriculum Coordinator for the Colville Confederated Tribes Language Department, for this 5-week basic introductory class on the nxaʔamxčín language. The class will be covering Moses-Columbian language history, phonetics/orthography, vocabulary and grammar. Each class will cover 5-10 words or phrases, along with some simple grammar concepts to try and make simple nxaʔamxčín sentences. Classes will cover family terms, colors, numbers, and feelings because Annette feels that these are lessons […]

Hosted by the Cascadia Conservation District Join us Mondays in March at 7-pm via Zoom to learn from our experts: March 8: Native Plants for a Firewise Home with Al Murphy March 15: Noxious Weed Control with Julia Sanderson March 22: Using Native Plants in Landscaping with Betsy Dudash RSVP at www.cascadiacd.org or by calling (509) 436-1601.

Hosted by Wenatchee River Institute Price: Free Wolverines have returned to Washington's South Cascades. And scientists have discovered the first reproductive female wolverine and her two kits in Mount Rainier National Park in over one hundred years. Since 2008, Cascades Carnivore Project has been studying the natural recolonization of wolverines in Washington. Over the past decade, they have detected 9 individual wolverines from Mount Rainier National Park through the US Forest Service Wilderness areas south to Mount Adams. Wolverines are […]

Hosted by Wenatchee River Institute Join Annette Timentwa, Language Curriculum Coordinator for the Colville Confederated Tribes Language Department, for this 5-week basic introductory class on the nxaʔamxčín language. The class will be covering Moses-Columbian language history, phonetics/orthography, vocabulary and grammar. Each class will cover 5-10 words or phrases, along with some simple grammar concepts to try and make simple nxaʔamxčín sentences. Classes will cover family terms, colors, numbers, and feelings because Annette feels that these are lessons that can be […]