By Betsy Fradd, WSU Extension PULLMAN, Wash. – New poplar varieties grown for bioenergy using inter-specific hybridization and selection techniques will be discussed in a webinar sponsored by Washington State University Extension 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14.
STANWOOD, Wash. – The annual Country Living Expo and Cattlemen’s Winterschool Jan. 31 will offer more than 185 workshops and classes in skills from cheesemaking and beekeeping to agribusiness, landscape design and small-scale solar power.
By Hope Belli Tinney, Washington SBDC ELLENSBURG, Wash. – When Megan West needed funding to open a clothing store in Ellensburg, she knew it was a bad sign when loan officers asked about her age but not her bona fides.
SEATTLE – Early registration is open through Feb. 9 for a short course about food ingredient technology to be held Feb. 25-26 at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel, Seattle Airport. Last year’s course filled up quickly.
KENNEWICK, Wash. – Discounted registration is open through Jan. 5 for the 2015 Pacific Northwest Oilseed and Direct Seed Cropping Systems Conference, where new and proven strategies to improve crop production and income generation will be highlighted.
By Lori Maricle, College of Pharmacy YAKIMA, Wash. – Angela Stewart and Stuart J. Muller will oversee extension of Washington State University’s doctor of pharmacy degree program to Yakima.
By Betsy Fradd, WSU Extension STANWOOD, Wash. – Trees and technology are making the road to renewable resources more promising with each growing season.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. – A restoration and management plan for Mill Creek west of downtown will be presented by landscape architecture students from Washington State University at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in a Walla Walla City Council work session in council chambers on the second floor of 15 N. Third St.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News VANCOUVER, Wash. – Why an insect the size of a fingernail has been compared to a great white shark is becoming more apparent as the brown marmorated stink bug accelerates across the Pacific Northwest.
STANWOOD, Wash. – Researchers, bioenergy staff and extension professionals will conduct the initial poplar-for-bioenergy harvest in Snohomish County noon-3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at the Pilchuck demonstration site.