With the start of a new school year, autumn is often a time of new beginnings. For North Cascades Wild participants, the season is a chance to …
Read More of NC Wild: Fall Experiences Build on Summer's Past
[We are excited to publish the first piece in our Foodshed Series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs working so hard to provide program participants and staff …
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Practicing natural history requires us to be consciously aware, to be intentional observers of our surroundings. To be a naturalist involves surrendering what we know about a …
Read More of Naming as Knowing
On a dreary September morning a team of 6th grade students from Seattle’s Westside School upend cobble in Deer Creek while searching for macro-invertebrates – living clues …
Read More of Understanding Connection and Community
As members of the current M.Ed. graduate cohort, we often have opportunities to assist with North Cascades Institute programs and courses outside our regular teaching schedules. Last …
Read More of Reflections on the 12th Annual Thunder Arm Writing Retreat
People experience the seasonal transformations of the natural world in a myriad of ways. Each of us may recognize subtleties taking hold of a landscape in times …
Read More of Fall Vignettes from the Institute
Earlier this October, Seattle artist and North Cascades Institute friend Molly Hashimoto led a wonderful and successful workshop on watercolor painting in nature at the Environmental Learning …
Read More of Watercolors in the North Cascades
“Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to …
Read More of Finding Community in the North Cascades
Last weekend Cohort 11 graduate students had the chance to step away from our roles as Mountain School Instructors and again return to being students of Natural …
Read More of From Teacher to Student and Back Again
I knew that when I moved to North Cascades Institute’s Environmental Learning Center to begin the residency portion of my Masters in Environmental Education degree, it was …
Read More of From the Learning Center to Bellingham: A Grad's Transition Back to the 'Real World'
