A day on the islands
Last week the Cohort 8 graduate students headed to the islands of Diablo Lake for class. The topic of the day: island biogeography, which is the study …
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Pulling alders, mulching and making friends
Last weekend 43 volunteers gathered at the learning center and pulled on their work gloves. Shovels, pulsakis, buckets and pruning shears in hand, these volunteers joined NCI …
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Gary Snyder and "Riprap" book give-away
If you know anything about Gary Snyder, then you can understand why we here at North Cascades Institute are incredibly excited about his forthcoming visit to Seattle …
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Skiing into Spring
Here in Western Washington many of us wait in anticipation for the coming of spring. Indications of this seasonal change are different for different people. For some …
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A coyote in Diablo Lake
“That’s a cougar!” Well, maybe…We saw a brown blur slink over the crest of the island. Whatever it was, this was a big, brown mammal. One might …
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"Tom Robbins Incognito"
Though we haven’t coerced him in to a Sourdough Speaker Series presentation — we’re working on it! — Skagit Valley scribe Tom Robbins is definitely a part …
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Spring Mountain School
Spring Mountain School is so fun! Middle school through high school students get to study forest carnivores, learn about and explore habitat around the learning center and …
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Fairy slippers, lady fern and trailing yellow violet
Unbelievable! So many plants are pushing their way out of the ground. Just a quick glimpse at what is rapidly unfurling and flowering around the learning center.
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Kulshan Creek kids migrate, mingle and munch
Friday, April 17th I tagged along with Amy Brown and Orlando Garcia, assisting with the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program. With the arrival of spring and the return …
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Diablo Paddling Perfection
Prys, draws, sculling, sweeps, posts and something called the Duffek, no these are not different ways to rid yourself of mosquitoes, they are just some of the …
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