Natural Connections- East of the Cascades

Kettle Valley Songbird Festival, May 20-22
A special weekend of events celebrating bird migration through this unique habitat. For more information, call 509-775-0441 or look over this attached brochure (pdf).

Coulee Corridor Scenic Byway birding trail map is available through Audubon Washington. Part of The Great Washington State Birding Trail series, this guide features remarkable birding sites along the Columbia River. For a copy contact Audubon Washington at 866-WA-BIRDS. For more information about resources in the Coulee Corridor visit www.couleecorridor.org.

Enjoy Migrating Sandhill Cranes
The Othello Sandhill Crane Festival is a three-day celebration, March 18-20, 2005 featuring a wide range of natural history tours and lectures including opportunities for viewing migrating cranes. Tours fill up early so prompt registration is encouraged.
www.othellosandhillcranefestival.org

Discover the Native Plants of the Columbia Basin. The Columbia Basin Chapter of the Native Plant Society offers field trips around the region, plant sales, garden tours and more! Trips scheduled through the winter. Find out the details at www.wnps.org/cbasin/events.html

Get Out and Hike! The Cascadians is an outdoor recreation and conservation club located in Yakima, Washington. Activities include hiking, backpacking, climbing, skiing, bicycling, kayaking, and rafting. Cascadians have been enjoying the trails and peaks of the Pacific Northwest since 1920. There are hiking trails galore and heaps of eastside outings and information. www.cascadians.org/

Interested in guided field trips?
Find an Audubon Chapter near you.
Find a Washington Native Plant Society near you.
Books

Northwest Arid Lands: An Introduction to the Columbia Basin Shrub-Steppe,

Singing Grass, Burning Sage: Discovering Washington’s Shrub-Steppe,
by Jack Nisbet (Graphics Arts Center Publishing, 1999).

Natural Connections homepage || Around Puget Sound || Olympic, Kitsap Peninsula and SW WA
by Georganne O’Connor and Karen Wieda (Battelle Press, 2002).