Nature's Classroom By Carlyn Saunders
Imagine a world where kids roam freely through forests, scale mountains, and paddle down winding rivers—not just in video games, but in...
Be Prepared to Fall in Love with the Yakima Canyon Interpretive Center By Jill Scheffer, KEEN President
Kids will not remember their best day of television, or the time spent scrolling through social media. A butterfly landing on a nose; a...
Discovering and Interpreting Wildlife Tracks and Signs By Deb Essman
Have you ever been alone in wintry woods and found a mysterious track in the snow? Maybe it caused a sudden rush of fear, a “…tighter...
The Legacy of Helen McCabe By Sasha Wohlpart
We base too much of our life on material things. The utilization of recreation tends to inspire materialism towards the finer...
Water Solutions for our Future By Carey Gazis
“Water is the elixir of life,” reads many an introduction to the hydrologic cycle. Water is magical. We drink fresh water daily,...
Cheating us out of a healthy shrub-steppe By: Jill Scheffer, KEEN President
Ah cheatgrass…it gets stuck in your socks, tangled in your dog's tail, and is just flat out destroying our native shrub-steppe habitat....
Small, Furry, and Integral to the Shrub Steppe By, Kristina Ernest
When we think about mammals of the shrub steppe, those that most often come to mind are deer, coyote, elk, and the elusive badger. We are...
