We really miss having Mountain School students at the Environmental Learning Center! Until we can welcome them back, Senior Program Instructor Alexa Brandt is sharing one of …
Read More of Mystery Skulls with Alexa #4: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I’ve been reading a lot of books about walking lately: rambling through pages that recount long saunters across lands familiar and foreign. The curriculum is reminding me …
Read More of The Art of Rambling
We really miss having Mountain School students at the Environmental Learning Center! Until we can welcome them back, Senior Program Instructor Alexa Brandt is sharing one of …
Read More of Mystery Skulls with Alexa #3: Nice to Meat You!
Durante este tiempo de cierres de escuelas y guías para quedarse en casa, el Instituto de North Cascades está compartiendo lecciones y actividades de nuestros talentosos instructores de …
Read More of Escuela de Montaña en Casa Lección 18: El ciclo del agua
When the coronavirus pandemic hit a year ago and schools, businesses and gathering places suddenly shut down, North Cascades Institute was forced to close their Environmental Learning …
Read More of Institute reopening with Spring + online author readings!
Students! Parents! Teachers! During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors. We …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 18: Water Cycle
We are excited to announce that Rebecca (Bec) Detrich has been selected as our next Executive Director! Our board of directors and staff hiring team chose her …
Read More of Introducing Rebecca Detrich, our next Executive Director!
We really miss having Mountain School students at the Environmental Learning Center! Until we can welcome them back, Senior Program Instructor Alexa Brandt is sharing one of …
Read More of Mystery Skulls with Alexa #2 : Herbivores
There is so much to distract us these days from our primary task, which is to renew honorable kinship with the Earth. Yes, economics, politics, justice, health—all …
Read More of “Speaking for the Wild” by Kim Stafford
It’s a problem — pulling a collection of poems together. I had a friend who consulted a Tarot deck. Another who threw a sheaf of poems down …
Read More of “Trails & Tracks; Poems and Memory” by Bill Yake
