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Climate Change and Agriculture in Eastern Washington
March 7 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeThe Wenatchee Valley College Sustainability Committee will host the first presentation in its new speaker series Climate Solutions and Climate Justice on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m.in The Grove Recital Hall, Music and Art Center, on the Wenatchee campus. This free event is open to the public.
Chad Kruger, director of both the Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, will present “Climate Change and Agriculture in Eastern Washington.” Kruger will discuss how climate change is impacting agriculture in Eastern Washington and what can be done about it. Kruger served on the 2007/2008 Washington State Climate Action Team, co-chairing the Agriculture Sector Carbon Market Workgroup, the Washington Department of Natural Resources Expert Council on Climate Change, and the board of the Northwest Ag Business Center, and he was a Commissioner on the Douglas County Water Conservancy Board. Kruger is also the lead author of the multi-agency Washington Soil Health Initiative. WVC Sustainability Coordinator Dr. Joan Qazi said that the Climate Solutions and Climate Justice speaker series is “an effort to help our students and local community understand our changing climate and its local impacts, as well as how to build climate resiliency here.”