For the Youth Leadership Adventures (YLA) program, a normal summer looks like bringing around 80 local high school students on a backcountry adventure that is anything but …
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Christian Martin: How long have you lived in and around the North Cascades, and how long have you been working as an artist? Gretchen Leggitt: I’ve lived …
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To engage in the process of phenology is to engage with the cyclical, seasonal phenomena occurring in the world all around you. Or, in other words, tuning …
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To help take us away from the troubles of the world, we asked some staff and friends to share videos of them reading poetry during April, National …
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Amidst all else going on in the world, we are mourning the loss of our dear friend Peter Hardin Jackson, son of the late U.S. Sen. Henry …
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Good fences make good neighbors, wrote Robert Frost. Border walls aside, that remains true of Canadian mines upstream of Washington waters. We love our Canadian neighbors and …
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Last month was the 165th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliott signed between Governor of Washington Territory and 82 different tribal leaders, including …
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“Located in the most remote corner of the continental United States, hunkered below a wilderness cascading down from the mountains, early Bellingham… had ambition,” writes historian Judy …
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Day in and day out we share our love of the North Cascades and value our access to nature near and far. It’s our routine. And life …
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North Cascades Institute partners with North Cascades National Park and Seattle City Light to develop and implement the curricula, training, marketing and registration for Skagit Tours. We …
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