Yakima County Extension Office
WSU Yakima County Extension is located inside the Yakima County Resource Center, behind the Union Gap Mall: 2403 S. 18th. St. Suite 100, Union Gap, WA 98903
Phone: (509) 574-1600
Fax: (509) 574-1601
Office Hours
OPEN Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm & 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Due to COVID-19 employees are temporarily working from home. Please call 574-1600, using the phone tree, leave a message with the extension you need to talk with. They will call return your call as quickly as possible.
Tipton Hudson
WSU Yakima County Extension Director, Associate Professor in Rangeland and Livestock Management
hudsont@wsu.edu / (509) 962-7507
Animal Sciences, Irrigated Pasture, Range and Riparian Management Extension Professor
All calls are being forwarded to Tipton Hudson, Kittitas County Office hudsont@wsu.edu / (509) 962-7507, until position is filled.
Alison J. White
Extension Regional Specialist, 4-H Youth Development
alison.white@wsu.edu / (509) 707-8066
Alison White joined the WSU Extension team in 2013. As a regional faculty member, Alison works in both Yakima and Kittitas counties providing leadership, with an emphasis on youth development research and fund development, for 4-H Youth Development programs. After earning …more
Jenny W. Loyd
Extension Program Coordinator, 4-H Youth Development
jennifer.loyd@co.yakima.wa.us / (509) 574-1600
Jenny Loyd spent her childhood in Springfield, Illinois and received her B.S. in Horticulture from the University of Illinois. Jenny has been part of the 4-H family since 2007, as the 4-H Youth Development …more
Bonnie Abercrombie
Office Coordinator, WSU Yakima County Extension
bonnie.abercrombie@co.yakima.wa.us / (509) 574-1600
yakima.4h@wsu.edu
Bonnie grew up in the Lower Valley. In 1985 she moved to the Soap Lake area. She was currently working for the Grant-Adams WSU Extension office in Ephrata, before moving back to Toppenish. Bonnie is our Office Coordinator. Bonnie has two children, a son and a daughter and one grandson and one granddaughter. Her and her husband live on a small farm in Toppenish and raise cattle and hay.
Yadira (Yadi) Olivera Guerrero
Yakima County Extension Family Resiliency, Health and Wellness Specialist WSU Extension | Youth and Families
yadi.olivera@wsu.edu / (509) 574-1582
Yadi Guerrero grew up in the Lower Valley and is passionate about community-engaged research that promotes organization and system-level change. She aims to collaborate with her community and provide quality evidence-based programming to prevent adverse health outcomes for youth and families county and state-wide. …more
Bernardita Sallato
Tree Fruit Extension Specialist
b.sallato@wsu.edu / (509) 786-9205
Bernardita Sallato’s areas of expertise are soil and plant nutrition in tree fruit. Her program will be focus on orchard efficiency and horticulture production improvement by managing soil fertility, root growth and water – nutrient uptake….more
Holly B. Lacell
Food $ense Coordinator, SNAP-Ed
holly.lacell@wsu.edu / (509) 574-1600
Holly has been with the Yakima Ext. SNAP-Ed program for nearly 7 years. She loves reading, cats, and coffee.
Claudia R. Steen
Yakima County Master Gardeners Program Coordinator
claudia.steen@wsu.edu / (509) 574-1604
Claudia received her BS degree and worked in a clinical lab as a microbiologist for 10 years. She then received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Science at San Francisco State University in 1978 and was offered an Associate Professor position at Central Washington University where she became the Program Director for the Clinical Laboratory Science Program …more