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  • 2025 Leavenworth Christmas Bird Count

    Wenatchee River Institute is participating in the Leavenworth Christmas Bird Count this year!

    The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a nationwide community science effort to count birds that has been happening for over 120 years. It is organized by the National Audubon Society, and local counts are compiled by regional Audubon chapters, community members, or organizations like WRI. Specific counts occur on one day in a 15-mile diameter circle around a town, and the Leavenworth count is happening on Tuesday, December 16th!

    There are plenty of routes to cover and lots of space for volunteer leaders or beginning birders to join in. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP above and we will send out more information the week before. You do not have to participate for the entire time.

    This is a great opportunity to both volunteer for this amazing community science project as well as learn from fellow community members. There is no cost to participate.

  • Día de los Reyes Celebration

    Dia de los Reyes celebrates the cultural tradition found across Latin America that symbolizes the end of Christmas. We wil enjoy traditional Mexican foods, guided nature walks at Wenatchee River Institutes campus, gifts for children, dance and musical performances, and storytelling. We hope participants will leave inspired to continue to get to know, care for, and celebrate the diverse social and natural aspects of our communities.

    El Día de los Reyes celebra la tradición cultural que se encuentra en toda América Latina y que simboliza el final de la Navidad. Disfrutaremos de comidas tradicionales mexicanas, caminatas guiadas por la naturaleza en el campus de Wenatchee River Institutes, regalos para niños, presentaciones de danza y música, y narración de cuentos. Esperamos que los participantes se vayan inspirados para seguir conociendo, cuidando y celebrando los diversos aspectos sociales y naturales de nuestras comunidades.

  • SheJumps x Wenatchee River Institute | Girl Winter Film Tour | WA

    Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Join SheJumps at the Wenatchee River Institute for an inspiring evening celebrating women in winter sports at the Girl Winter Film Screening. The six films highlight stories of perseverance, creativity, and connection to the mountains—told by and about women redefining what it means to thrive in winter.

    Enjoy six short films with a total runtime of 71 minutes:
    -Mimic featuring Pipe Kunst, directed by Hadley Michaels and Piper Kunst
    -Trails Still Blazing featuring Megan McJames, directed by Iz La Motte
    -Queen of the Catskills featuring Julie McGuire, directed by Jamie Kennard
    -Dear Superhero featuring Janina Kuzma, directed by Corinna Marie Haloran and Jase Hancox
    -Let My People Go Skiing featuring Ellen Bradley, directed by Ellen Bradley
    -That One Friend featuring Sierra Schlag and Waverly Chin, directed by Sara Beam Robbins and Grant Robbins

  • Red Barn Event: Habitat Gardening

    Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Native plants are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. Invertebrates, especially insects, take the wonderful products of photosynthesis that plants create and make them available to most of the animals that are part of the ecological web. All birds and many mammals would go extinct without native plants and their associated insects. We will explore this critical yet often hidden service and discuss how individual people and their communities can link their landscape to the local ecosystem and help sustain the intricate web of life around them by the selection and planting of particular native plants.

    About the presenter:
    Ted Alway is a long-time Peshastin resident, orchardist and founder of Derby Canyon Natives nursery. He went to college to study Ornamental Horticulture and left with a degree in Entomology; this presentation includes two of his greatest loves, bugs and native plants!

  • Community Seed Swap @ Wenatchee River Institute

    Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Free Community Seed Swap!
    Join WRI on National Seed Swap Day. Come to swap seeds or just pick up some seeds for your garden this year. All are welcome!

     

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Fire Reverie

    Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Join the Wenatchee River Institute and the Cascadia Prescribed Burn Association in a celebration of fire.

    This will be an evening to celebrate fire where we will bring warmth and light to the night. We will have firepits set up to gather around fire, fire dancers, a mobile sauna to enjoy after a cold plunge, food, stories, music, a drum circle and your community’s company.

    Please bring a chair to relax and listen to the poetry and music. We also encourage you to bring quick easy food to cook over the fire.

    This event is open and welcome for all to join, no registration is required.

  • Nature TRIVIA Night

    Downtown Wenatchee Orondo Avenue & South Columbia Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

    Join CDLT, Sustainable NCW, and Wenatchee River Institute for an evening of trivia at Watercore Cider! Come and test your knowledge of all things nature and sustainability.

    This is a FREE event, but donations are welcome.
    Prizes for the winning team!

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Winter Wander at the Hatchery

    Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery 12790 Fish Hatchery Road, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    Begin the year with new discoveries! No experience needed! Starting from the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, join Wenatchee River Institute naturalist guides on a one-mile trail along beautiful Icicle Creek. We will learn about native wildlife and ecology along the way. What signs do we see along the trail that tell us what animals were there? How do the plants and animals survive winter? Gaiters and poles will be provided (and snowshoes if weather/snowpack permits).

  • Red Barn Event: Wolf Land Film Screening

    Red Barn at Wenatchee River Institute 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA, United States

    No registration required. Doors to the Red Barn open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The film will start just after 7:00pm. Run time is 71 minutes and will be followed by a Q+A with producer Sarah Hoffman. This Red Barn Event is a LIVE ONLY event and will NOT be streamed or recorded.

    Wolf Land is a film about finding common ground in unlikely places. The team spent 2.5 years documenting the lives of “wolf protecting cowboy” and range rider Daniel Curry and rancher Jerry Francis in the remote wilderness of northeast Washington. Washington has had its share of conflict on this issue, and human/wildlife conflict is a story that’s typically told in polarizing extremes. This film’s goal was to document two people in the middle of this conflict working together to protect what’s most dear to each of them. For Daniel, that is endangered wolves and for Jerry, his cattle and way of life.

    We hope that this hyperlocal film, produced in the Northwest, has themes of coexistence that can touch audiences with a range of perspectives on this issue. Courtesy Cascade Public Media.

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