Join PCEI on a week-long adventure around the Palouse! We will be exploring natural areas, creating nature art, learning the history of the Palouse area, visiting local farms, and meeting local artists. Get ready to paint, draw, collage, color, and weave to create awesome art projects using the natural world for inspiration! Campers will create […]

Enjoy reading and the outdoors with your children at the PCEI Nature Center every Tuesday from 10 AM to noon! Each week in June through August, a special guest from the community will read books on a specific theme followed by fun outdoor activities. Please bring your own blanket or camp chairs.Each week, check back […]

Featured Reader: Jade and Ben StellmonLongtime friends Ben and Jade think reading and friendship go hand in hand. They love to share their favorite authors with each other, but their favorite thing to do is read books each night to their four book-loving children.    Featured Book: "I Am Invited To A Party!" by Mo WillemsPiggie is […]

The cycling clinic will cover the basics of bicycle safety, maintenance, and riding skills. The overall goal is to promote bicycling as a healthy lifelong activity, competitive sport, and a mode of transportation. Participants will be divided into groups based on previous experience, age, and skill level. The clinic will include demonstration and practice of […]

Join us for an afternoon of art, nature, food, drink and live music at the PCEI Nature Center.  Located at 1040 Rodeo Drive, we have 12 acres of beautiful open space, wetlands, gardens and a native plant nursery for you to enjoy during your Artwalk experience. A supervised group bike ride to the PCEI Nature Center […]

Featured Readers: Kim Harris-Thacker and Madeleine JohnsonStories are Kim's passion, whether she's reading them or writing them. A former editor and teacher, Kim now finds herself in the lucky position of being a stay-at-home mom to two girls who never tire of having books read to them. Kim loves unique, beautiful settings in stories, so […]

Open to the public. Please email Carole Wells for an agenda. Need directions to PCEI?

Enjoy reading and the outdoors with your children at the PCEI Nature Center every Tuesday from 10 AM to noon! Each week (June through August) a special guest from the community will read books on a specific theme followed by fun outdoor activities. Please bring your own blanket or camp chairs.Each week, check back to […]

There will be no Summer Storytime time today.  PCEI's Summer Storytime will resume on Tuesday, July 9th.

Enjoy reading and the outdoors with your children at the PCEI Nature Center every Tuesday from 10 AM to noon! Each week (June through August) a special guest from the community will read books on a specific theme followed by fun outdoor activities. Please bring your own blanket or camp chairs.Each week, check back to […]

Featured Reader: Lora Lee BoalLora Lee is a former preschool teacher with a big imagination. She is always able to put herself into the stories she hears and reads. Lora Lee loves to swim, camp, go for walks, and tell and listen to stories while on long drives or near the campfire. She also loves […]

Join University of Idaho’s Master Water Steward volunteer water quality monitoring workshop at PCEI! Participants in the program attend an 8-hour workshop which combines classroom instruction and hands-on field work. Once a volunteer becomes a certified Master Water Steward, they can adopt a stream location to conduct regular monitoring on. Lunch is provided. Professional development […]