Who would have dreamed that a national forest, a housing non-profit and an environmental education organization would team up to provide Seattle-based Asian and Pacific Islanders with …
Read More of Institute Receives USFS Conservation Award
I recently had the opportunity to join Megan McGinty, North Cascades Institutes’ Climate Challenge Program Coordinator, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a meeting with representatives …
Read More of Spring in the Smokies
Many hands make light work. An old saying at the forefront of my mind throughout the first North Cascades Wild spring day trip. A dozen NC Wild …
Read More of NC Wild Springs into Stewardship
At the beginning of the M.Ed. residency, every graduate student writes down several goals. These personal goals are for both our teaching practicum as well as for …
Read More of Full Moon Rising
March 17 marked a day of recognition for the hard work and dedication of the graduate students of Cohort 9, and their completion of a Masters in …
Read More of C9 Graduation: The Mark of New Beginnings
Despite the fact it seems like we just said goodbye to the final fall Mountain School group only a few weeks ago, the spring season is fast approaching. Staff …
Read More of Finding Our Inner Child
Several weeks back, North Cascades Environmental Learning Center was abuzz with talk of an animal kill on campus near the Peninsula Trail behind the dining hall. A …
Read More of Unsolved Mystery: Dinner on Diablo's Shore
I like taking photos. I really like taking photos. I have taken tens of thousands of photos in my life, many of them over the course of …
Read More of Living Life in the Here and Now
After a month without snowfall and bare ground at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, it appeared our snow days had ended for the winter season and …
Read More of Return of Winter
Last summer, during the first quarter of our graduate program, our professor John Miles had us read several excerpts by author Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor …
Read More of Poking Around in Wonder
