WSU Extension and the Snoqualmie Watershed Forum will present a workshop on government grant and cost-share programs that help forest and farm owners improve their property. This free workshop will take place 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at the Snoqualmie Library. Many area landowners have dream projects to enhance their property, improve wildlife habitat […]
A WSU Extension project aimed at increasing diversity in the country’s land-grant university system has received national recognition. WSU Extension’s Change Agent States for Diversity project team is a member of a consortium that won the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension award for Multistate Efforts for 2009. The Change Agent States (CAS) project is […]
As WSU expands its global presence, faculty members are seeking new ways to reach far-flung colleagues and audiences. One crucial tool is conferencing, but the process can be fraught with difficulties. The event must be designed, speakers must be scheduled, and ideas must be refined into reality. Help is now available on the […]
WENATCHEE – Thanks to the efforts of Extension educator Tim Smith, sweet cherry growers in central Washington are using new environmentally friendly materials and methods to control Cherry fruit fly. Washington is the nation’s leading producer of sweet cherries and a third of the crop is exported. The key quarantine pest of sweet cherries is […]
Imagine a job in which you must cut the coat off a 200-pound, wriggling creature without so much as scratching the animal or damaging the coat, then repeating that task 100 times or more. For sheep shearers, it’s all in a day’s work and, with the help of WSU Extension, the number of skilled and […]
Nearly 400 Washington State University Extension educators from throughout the state will gather on the Pullman campus March 1-3 for the biannual all-extension conference.“Creating A Culture of Change: Extension, Entrepreneurism and Engagement” focuses on how to affect and adapt to change in order to better serve extension clients, said WSU Extension Dean Linda Kirk Fox.“Many […]