Spring 2025 Institute Photo Round-up!
Why does spring seem like the most “blink and you miss it” of seasons? For sure, here at the Institute it’s when things are really revving up: …
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Blog Archive
Joy in the Outdoors: A Juneteenth Reflection
Guest post by the Institute’s Welcoming & Belonging Advisor, Alma Busby-Williams, reflecting on the importance of Juneteenth and finding comfort outdoors. I learned from my great grandmother, …
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Nature of Writing Speaker Series | Spring 2025
Our Nature of Writing Speaker Series brings community together in conversation to celebrate the authors, artists, poets and naturalists illuminating the natural world with the turn of …
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The Trees are Speaking: Lynda Mapes’ Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
To be in an old-growth forest is to feel cloaked, as if walking in a living terrarium, padding around a soft kingdom of green. Sitka spruce, western …
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Answering the Call of the Oregon Spotted Frog
It is the last day of February, a no-jacket-needed, blue sky afternoon. The Twin Sisters Mountains, white with snow, highlight the horizon to the east. Within the …
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The Healing Power of Nature: Mountain School at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Mountain School is an immersive environmental education program that has served regional fifth graders since 1990. During the 3-day program, students spend most of their time outside, …
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Birding the Salish Sea: Scoters, Loons & Harlequin Ducks, oh my!
Guest post by Amanda Colbert Spring in the central Salish Sea is one of my favorite times of year to get out on the water and look …
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Wild Work & Community Connections
Since 2021, the Institute has provided paid service days to our staff. We encouraged everyone to use those hours to volunteer with a local nonprofit organization or …
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Pacific Harvest: Watermelon Kelp Salad
SEA VEGGIES BOOST YOUR HEALTH AND FLAVORS! The first time I tasted wild nori, it was served up in crispy handfuls from a recycled cereal box in …
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Statement of support for our friends at the National Park Service and US Forest Service
North Cascades Institute is committed to being a good partner to North Cascades National Park and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. We are in communication with both agencies’ …
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