Conservation

Washington’s newest community forest was brought to life on Thursday, April 14 when Western Rivers Conservancy transferred the 3,714-acre Nason Ridge property on Lake Wenatchee to Chelan County. This historic achievement is the result of a four-year effort by Western... Read More...

The pygmy rabbit is endangered and lives in the shrub steppe near Wenatchee. Not only is the pygmy rabbit facing habitat loss, wildfires, predators and climate change, but a new virus is sweeping west that may threaten this already fragile... Read More...

Right now, there is a proposed industrial solar development project for Badger Mountain under way. Industrial solar needs to be very close to existing substations (hence, interest in Badger Mountain). Solar developments have fences around them which impacts animal movement... Read More...

Editors Note: We recently read an article on the national Audubon website about the six ways in which birds are important to the environment and to people. One of the ways in which birds directly help people is by finding... Read More...

Wenatchee Naturalist course instructor Susan Ballinger would like us to consider joining the N.C.W. hummingbird project to help scientists understand Anna’s Hummingbirds overwintering in our region. Are you interested in joining in the one hour of data collecting from the... Read More...