BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wenatcheeriverinstitute.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2. 30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:24460ee7-2693-461a-b3d7-c111edfdc1f5 X-WR-CALDESC:Streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYduajgr7M\n \nThis is a partnered event with the Wenatchee Valley chapter of the Nativ e Plant Society and the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Society of Wetlan d Scientists.\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.\n\nJo in us for a presentation on Cottonwood (Populus species) which are common across North American floodplains and riparian ecosystems\, including thos e of the Columbia River Basin and the watersheds of the North Central Casc ades. Across the West\, there are several species of cottonwood\, all of w hich are riparian specialists that rely on the flowing water that rivers a nd streams provide to disperse their seeds\, facilitate growth\, and compl ete their life cycle. Cottonwood are often a dominant tree species in arid and semi-arid floodplains and build wildlife habitat through forest stand s and shape fish habitat through their large wood that influences rivers a nd their floodplains. Here we’ll discuss how cottonwood evolved to be true river specialists\, and what their presence\, absence\, and regeneration can tell us about a river’s history and diversity: its flow regime and the evolution of its channels across the watershed. Join us for a virtual fie ldtrip through the rivers of North Central Washington as we unlock the nat ural history of rivers\, as told by their floodplain cottonwood forests. \n\nNate Hough-Snee is a Leavenworth\, Washington-based wetland and ripari an ecologist who researches and restores aquatic ecosystems across the Pac ific Northwest. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology from Utah State University's Wat ershed Sciences Department. An environmental storyteller at heart\, Nate c urrently spins environmental narratives of the Wenatchee and Entiat waters heds\, Lake Chelan\, and Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Nate currently wo rks with the Lake Chelan Research Institute as a senior scientist and cond ucts environmental research and policy work through his firm\, Meadow Run Environmental. Recently Nate has focused his attention on environmental fl ows for rivers and streams\, and how they affect various forest habitats. As a past president of the Society of Wetland Scientists’ Pacific Northwes t Chapter\, most of Nate's ecosystem stories are told about rivers\, plant s\, and people and with enough humor to have a good time.\n\nPhoto credit Nate Hough-Snee X-WR-RELCALID:7ed0e29b5376713eb3dc3b241482e93a X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20250309T020000 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59ba4cbd-a14a-40d3-8506-f40372a49d36 DTSTAMP:20260407T110213Z DESCRIPTION:Streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYduajgr7M\n\n This is a partnered event with the Wenatchee Valley chapter of the Native Plant Society and the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists.\n\nDoors open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and w ine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.\n\nJoin us for a presentation on Cottonwood (Populus species) which are common ac ross North American floodplains and riparian ecosystems\, including those of the Columbia River Basin and the watersheds of the North Central Cascad es. Across the West\, there are several species of cottonwood\, all of whi ch are riparian specialists that rely on the flowing water that rivers and streams provide to disperse their seeds\, facilitate growth\, and complet e their life cycle. Cottonwood are often a dominant tree species in arid a nd semi-arid floodplains and build wildlife habitat through forest stands and shape fish habitat through their large wood that influences rivers and their floodplains. Here we’ll discuss how cottonwood evolved to be true r iver specialists\, and what their presence\, absence\, and regeneration ca n tell us about a river’s history and diversity: its flow regime and the e volution of its channels across the watershed. Join us for a virtual field trip through the rivers of North Central Washington as we unlock the natur al history of rivers\, as told by their floodplain cottonwood forests. \n \nNate Hough-Snee is a Leavenworth\, Washington-based wetland and riparian ecologist who researches and restores aquatic ecosystems across the Pacif ic Northwest. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology from Utah State University's Water shed Sciences Department. An environmental storyteller at heart\, Nate cur rently spins environmental narratives of the Wenatchee and Entiat watershe ds\, Lake Chelan\, and Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Nate currently work s with the Lake Chelan Research Institute as a senior scientist and conduc ts environmental research and policy work through his firm\, Meadow Run En vironmental. Recently Nate has focused his attention on environmental flow s for rivers and streams\, and how they affect various forest habitats. As a past president of the Society of Wetland Scientists’ Pacific Northwest Chapter\, most of Nate's ecosystem stories are told about rivers\, plants\ , and people and with enough humor to have a good time.\n\nPhoto credit Na te Hough-Snee DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T200000 LOCATION:HYBRID EVENT: WRI's Red Barn 347 Division Street\, Leavenworth\, W A 98826 or livestream via our YouTube Channel SUMMARY:Red Barn Event - Cottonwoods: Unlocking our Rivers' Histories END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR