On a rainy Friday morning in Bellingham, eight environmental educators cram tightly into a van fully equipped in winter gear. The van’s destination—Mt. Baker Ski Area. Rain …
Read More of Snow School 2016: Experiential Education on Mt. Baker
As we ready for our 30th spring and summer of offering outdoor explorations and learning adventures in the North Cascades, we acknowledge another important anniversary too: the …
Read More of Celebrating 30 & 100 Years Birthdays!
As the snow is melting and the trees are budding, our Naturalist Team is getting ready for teaching in the mountains. At the North Cascades Institute‘s Environmental …
Read More of Naturally Wonderful Naturalists: New staff of 2016
People in Montana and Northwestern Wyoming have been living and recreating in close proximity to grizzlies upon settlement. In Washington nobody has seen a grizzly in nearly …
Read More of Grizzly Bears in the Pacific Northwest: Part 5
By Hannah Newell, a M.Ed. Graduate student of the Institute’s 15th Cohort Pacific Wren This avian is a year round resident in our coniferous forests but to me …
Read More of Natural Notes on the Pacific Wren and Saw Whet Owl
The North Cascades Institute has a Graduate Residency program where Western Washington University students live and learn at the Environmental Learning Center located near Diablo, Washington for …
Read More of Wilderness Awareness School and Islandwood: Graduate Exchange Weekend
By Kelly Sleight, graduate student in the institute’s 14th cohort. Lichen and People Lichen and people have interacted since time immemorial. Humans have used lichen as food, medicine, …
Read More of Lichen Love: A Natural History of Lichen (Part Two)
Véronique Robigou participated in the North Cascades Institute’s Creative Residence Program this winter, joining the tradition of poets, naturalists, dancers and researchers who have participated in the past. As described …
Read More of Véronique Robigou: Artistic Mapper in Residence
By Kelly Sleight, graduate student in the institute’s 14th cohort. There is a low mist in the woods- It is a good day to study lichens. -Henry David …
Read More of Lichen Love: A Natural History of Lichen (Part One)
While the Broncos and the Panthers were playing the biggest football game of the year, almost two dozen of us living in the upper Skagit valley traveled …
Read More of Snapshots of Paddling on the Skagit
