[Mountain School has officially ended for the spring season! On Friday afternoon, Institute staff and instructors waved a bittersweet goodbye to 5th graders from Mountain View Elementary, …
Read More of The Gift of Mountain School
It only takes a few days in Forks, Washington, to be dead sure that the town is the rainiest place in the lower forty-eight. And that is …
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Paddles up. Uhh! Forward. Portside paddles never quite in synch. Rest. The silence of the Skagit River current carries minds and bodies gently forward. I lean to …
Read More of Sunday on The River: A Fishtown Poem
Robert Sund is our bard of the Skagit River, a singer of songs celebrating skunk cabbage, frogs, muddy water, ducks, and the rising tide. In the summer …
Read More of New Book Captures Late Northwest Poet Robert Sund's Words
While spring is busy blooming and blossoming at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, there is still time during quiet evenings to curl up and read a …
Read More of David Douglas: Collector, Naturalist, Explorer
Days are growing longer and birdsong is filling the mountain air as the North Cascades awaken from the long winter. With the Washington State Department of Transportation …
Read More of News release: North Cascades National Park Ready for Spring and Summer Visitors
During the last weekend in April, Seattle artist and North Cascades Institute friend and instructor Molly Hashimoto led a wonderful and inspiring 3-day Adult Seminar on Printmaking with …
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Notes from Disappearing Lake: The River Journals of Robert Sund A reading by Tim McNulty May 15, 2012; 7 pm Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th Street, …
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I think it may be safe to say that life is coming back to the North Cascades as of today, and yesterday, and even a few weeks …
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With an Introduction Recounting Current Happenings in the Foodshed Project [We are excited to publish the fifth piece in our Foodshed series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs …
Read More of Edible Geography: Perspectives and Practice in Foodshed Education
