The North Cascades Institute Staff and Graduate students have spent weeks packing food, preparing curriculum, shuttling canoes, calling students, organizing camping gear and finalizing lessons in preparation …
Read More of Introducing the 2010 Cascades Climate Challenge Team!! (Part 1)
Summer is officially here, despite the gloomu weather’s persistence otherwise, and North Cascades Wild is near. With training and packing behind us, this summer’s crew leaders embarked …
Read More of North Cascades Wild Recon 2010
The transition from spring to summer has been a long awaited and hopeful one to those of us living in the Pacific Northwest this year. This past …
Read More of An Institute ode to summer
Jim Alt, Institute naturalist, and Jan Healy, retail manager, at the Institute’s new store inside the Newhalem Visitor Center. When you plan your next trip into the …
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Most of the current North Cascades Institute graduate class – “C9” – participated in another year of the Bellingham Ski to Sea race over the Memorial Day …
Read More of Taking on the Ski to Sea
Spring is here and it was time for the North Cascades Institute cohort-ions of the ninth – C9 graduate students - to take our spring retreat on Sunday, May 23rd …
Read More of From the Cascades to the Olympics
As spring slowly transitions to summer in North Cascades National Park, reminders of the adventures that await North Cascades Wild (NC Wild) participants are everywhere in the …
Read More of NC Wild pulls weeds & plants seeds of excitement
From sea to shining sea . . . Well, okay, not that far, but North Cascades Institute has been traveling far and wide recruiting students to join …
Read More of Summer Youth Roadshow
All over Washington, the earth is reawakening. Can you see it? In a period of only a few weeks, spring has come – a monumental paintbrush caressing …
Read More of Painting a Washington spring portrait
Byron Odion of Clinton installs solar panels March 10 at the Mount Baker/Snoqualmie National Forest and North Cascades National Park headquarters. Photo by Scott Terrell. Published in …
Read More of Going solar: panels on Institute building will cut energy costs