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On a warm morning this summer, more than 20 children from the City of Wenatchee’s Day Camp joined me to play Pokémon Go at Saddle Rock — except instead of looking for imaginary creatures on a screen, they searched for local wildlife in the bushes.

On Wednesday, Rebecca Frank and Omar Garcia, site stewards with the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, walked through 20 acres damaged by fire earlier this week on Horse Lake Road. Their task was to assess damage.

The 20-acre Horse Lake Road fire is 100 percent contained. A fire engine remained on scene Tuesday as a precaution.

The area’s top land conservation group announced Tuesday it has been awarded a $5,000 Think Green Grant from Waste Management.

Living in an era of megafires will be the first topic in the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center’s environmental film series, which begins Aug. 30.

It’s called synergy, when efforts combined produce an effect greater than the sum of their parts. We see synergy in the Entiat Valley, and it is good and more good.

If a piece of land could talk, there wouldn’t be many that could claim to have helped fire victims, salmon, a contractor, an accountant and a building inspector.

We're delighted to announce that we've hired Curt Soper to lead the organization to higher levels of service to conservation and community.

This article originally ran in The Wenatchee World in June 2016.

It’s starting to get hot outside, which means families are flocking to rivers & lakes to beat the heat. When temperatures rise into the 80s, all my hikes end in places to swim! Spending time at the lake or river with your kids can be fun – and it can also help them improve their understanding of how the world works. So next time your kids look like they’re searching for something to do, try some of these activities to help them learn more about rivers, lakes, and our drinking water.

A coveted natural area will be preserved in perpetuity by a land deal between the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust and the Chelan PUD

Proposed land acquisition would preserve 25 acres of environmentally unique lands.

Valley residents get a chance to spend time in nature while exploring exciting topics on our Thursday Walk-and-Talks.