Week of Events
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Location:Β The Barn @ Barn Beach Reserve, 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA Hosted by the Wenatchee River Institute & A Book for All Seasons ADMISSION BY DONATION, ALL AGES WELCOME! DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM FOR NO HOST REFRESHMENTS Langdon Cook goes in search of the salmon in "Upstream", his timely and in-depth look at how these beloved fish have nourished humankind through the ages and why their destiny is so closely tied to our own. […]
Fire & Ice Geology Tour
Fire & Ice Geology Tour
Saturday, October 14: 9:00am to 5:00pm The Wenatchee Valley Museum Presents- Tour shows you the site of the largest landslide to have occurred in the country. You will learn to read and thereby understand the features of the basalt cliffs. Once upon the Waterville Plateau, you will see evidence of the continental ice sheet that once covered this area: Withrow Terminal Moraine, Kames, Eskars, Drumlins an Kettles. See the Grand Terrace At Brewster and the source of the Glacial Erratics […]
Fall Migration Walk
Fall Migration Walk
Team Naturaleza presents a Fall Migration Walk Sunday, October 8 at 1 PM - 3 PM Location: Walla Walla Point Park Let's adventure on town! Team Naturaleza invites you to a FREE and family-friendly walk with us at the Walla Walla Park to observe beautiful migratory birds returning to South America. Marjie Loodwick, a local USFWS biologist who loves to share about nature with others, will introduce us to the Columbia River Basin on a 2-3 mile walk on a […]
Catastrophic Flooding on Earth & Mars
Catastrophic Flooding on Earth & Mars
Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, October 10 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee. Big, bigger, biggest: Catastrophic flooding on Earth and Mars The Wenatchee Valley Erratics go to Mars, two meetings in a row!Β Dr. John Buchanan, EWU professor of geology, will talk about catastrophic outburst flooding by various mechanisms that have been occurring on Earth and Mars through geologic time. Dr. Buchanan will examine how the […]
Out of Bounds Program
Out of Bounds Program
The YMCA presents-October 13th, 2017 is the first day for our Out of Bounds program. During that day we will be at Enchantment Park and the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery. The fees are $29 for members and $39 for community members. The fees increase by $10 the Friday before. Program check in begins at 7:30am and we will arrive back to the YMCA by 4:00pm. At Enchantment Park, we will be playing on the playground, playing parachute games, and eating […]