Explore the Pacific Northwest this year with North Cascades Institute and learn what makes our corner of the continent so special with hands-on, intimate experiences at the …
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North Cascades Institute is excited to announce our brand-new Youth Leadership Adventures program for motivated students ages 14-18 in Washington and Oregon. Youth Leadership Adventures combines two …
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What is a sunny day in January for, if not an adventure? On one such day a couple months back, I headed out in the Institute’s 14-person …
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One of my favorite things about this particular Masters in Education program through Western Washington University and North Cascades Institute is that most of the time it …
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At the far end of a trip north In a berry-pickers cabin At the edge of a wide muddy field Stretching to the words and cloudy mountains, …
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I was sitting in my house, thinking, and the first few lines of a poem that I haven’t thought of in years popped into my head: “In …
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Andrea Reiter is a graduate student at North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University studying environmental education. She grew up in Washington, getting the opportunity to explore …
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Heather Ellis is a future student of Social Work, currently on hiatus from school to work, take care of family, improve her photography, and give herself time for self-reflection …
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Graduate student Jacob Belsher writes a natural history book review on John McPhee’s Basin and Range According to James Hutton, a Scottish geologist working in the late …
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Three times during their year-long residency, the graduate students at the Learning Center venture outside for three days to learn about natural history. Our winter natural history …
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