{"id":1792,"date":"2014-09-26T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/?page_id=1792"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:54:35","slug":"nrs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/nrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2014\/05\/colockum3.gif\" alt=\"colockum3\" class=\"wp-image-494\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Taking care of the beauty of our area is the priority of all citizens of Chelan and Douglas Counties.&nbsp; Our area ranges from the Columbia River basin to shrub-steppe to dryland forest to alpine forests and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commercial farmers, ranchers&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/agriculture\/\">orchardists<\/a> are also a critical component of environmental conservation, preservation and sustainability.&nbsp;The educational programs offered help them remain viable and profitable, while&nbsp;doing their work in the most environmentally safe manner possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have two major initiatives in Natural Resources&nbsp;education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a)&nbsp;Forest Stewardship for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/nrs\/forestry\/\">private forest land owners<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(b)&nbsp;The Colockum Natural Resource Center for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/venue\/colockum-natural-resource-center\/\">teachers, students and the public<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these strive to help citizens and students to understand&nbsp; and manage our ecology and what they can do to help preserve and sustain it for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking care of the beauty of our area is the priority of all citizens of Chelan and Douglas Counties.&nbsp; Our area ranges from the Columbia River basin to shrub-steppe to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_expiration_date":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"cahnrs_clean_page_nonce":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14757,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792\/revisions\/14757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/chelan-douglas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}