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Palouse Basin Water Summit

Palouse Basin Water Summit This Summit is FREE and open to the public!  Please join us to learn more about our water resources and the people who are making a difference.  This year's keynote speaker is Brian Richter, President of Sustainable Waters and the topic is "Chasing Water: Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability." 4:30 pm-8:30 […]

WRC Lecture- Jim Clark

“Water Resource Recovery Facilities….it isn’t simply wastewater treatment and disposal anymore.” This presentation will look at water scarcity including pressure from population growth and distribution; provide statistics about how much usable water there is available and how it is being used; discuss the importance of reusing water to the maximum extent possible, and beneficially recovering […]

Stream Clean-up for the Orcas

Join Palouse Conservation District for a volunteer planting event to celebrate Orca Recovery Day to address downstream water quality issues. About this Event Far from ocean waters, surrounded by a […]

WRSM Meeting & Social

Our Spring WRSM Meeting & Social will be Tuesday December 3rd at 5pm in Coll 235.  This will count as one of the three experiential requirements needed to complete the certificate, so if you haven’t been to one of these before and can make it, please do come! During this meeting, you’ll learn a little […]

Joe Zagrodnik- Predicting weather in WA State

Predicting weather in Washington State: recent advances and opportunities Joe Zagrodnik Date: Monday, February 24th   |   Place: Paccar 202   |   Time: 4:10-5pm As weather systems pass from the Pacific Ocean […]

Running Dry

Jim Thebaut is an accomplished and experienced CEO, President with expertise and extensive achievements as an environmental planner, journalist, Executive Producer of documentaries, educator, world traveler and ambassador of diplomacy and a public policy expert.  He has managed multi-disciplinary teams and created the public information education documentary feature projects THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: ARE WE RUNNING […]

Phenological Whiplash in Lakes

Phenological Whiplash in Lakes September 23, 2020 - 12:00pm EST / 9am PST Webinar Speaker: Hilary Dugan Visit the following link for connection information: https://necsc.umass.edu/webinars/phenological-whiplash-lakes   Climate change is leading to overall warming and increasing variability across many ecosystems. In northern lakes, extremely early or late lake ice melt has cascading effects throughout the food web. […]