David Wilderman, Lead Scientist for WA Department of Natural Resources, Natural Areas Program May 14, 2026 at 7:00 pm., Lacey Community Center Take a tour of beautiful Natural Areas that showcase the extraordinary features these sites protect, then delve into some of the work being done to manage and restore these very special protected areas. […]
Austin Greene, Ph.D., Lead scientist for Washington Department of Natural Resources, Aquatic Reserves Program April 30, 2026 7:00 pm, Lacey Community Center Austin Greene leads a team of scientists and technicians working to better understand the unique habitats on eight Aquatic Reserves in Washington and the impacts challenging the future of these ecosystems. In this […]
Washington’s beautiful landscapes support a tremendous diversity of ecosystems including marine eelgrass beds, tidepools, salt marshes, lowland rainforests, montane coniferous forests, subalpine and alpine meadows and parklands, shrub steppe, grasslands, prairies, sand dunes, riparian areas, forested swamps, vernal pools, marshes, fens and bogs. These ecosystems in turn support thousands of species, some of which are unique to […]
