Congratulations to Chris Voigt of the Washington State Potato Commission and the “Washington Grown” team! They are the 2024 recipients of the Northwest Regional Emmy® Award in the Informational/Instructional – Long Form Content category. If you haven’t seen the show, take a look at the episode that was nominated for the Emmy®.
In other award news, Confluence, an annual CAHNRS product, is a Print Media – Alumni Engagement finalist for the National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association’s Projects and Publications Competition. Winners will be announced at the conference next week. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the marketing and communications and development teams that they are awardees. This year’s issue of Confluence will be solely digital, but of the same quality as last year. The digital format offers the ability for expanded content and provides more opportunities to share the great work of CAHNRS.
Before meeting some of our alums at the end of the week, I spent time in Omak for the Board of Natural Resources (BNR) retreat. This was my first trip north of Wenatchee. I like the area.
Following the monthly BNR meeting, we toured several Department of Natural Resources sites. While we focused on recreation lands last year, this year’s focus was wildfire. Conversations about prescribed burns reminded me about a number of visits I made to Extension offices in California. With wildfire season upon us and low rainfall and snowpack in Washington, the conversations were timely.
Lynx habitat management was a new and interesting topic for me, though similar to human-wildlife interaction management around mountain lions in many areas throughout California. After this week’s meeting, I have a bit of a reprieve from the board activity. I will miss July’s meeting for vacation time, and the board doesn’t meet in August.
Pullman was lively last weekend. I expect the same this weekend, with many alumni in town for reunion celebrations. Hopefully the weather continues to warm up.