Annual Envirothon to be at Klemgard

Palouse Conservation District’s annual Whitman County Envirothon competition will be April 26 at Klemgard County Park. Open to high school students, it offers an opportunity to extend knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management.

Topic for this year is salt and freshwater Estuaries.

The one-day event, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., encourages students to exercise their problem solving skills as they rotate through five stations including soils/land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife and a current environmental issue. The competition lasts three hours and is followed by l...