Editor’s note: Mountain School is about to start back up for its fall season! After teaching two seasons and hundreds of students last year, I thought a …
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I have recommended the hike to Cascade Pass and up Sahale Arm to countless visitors in search of a day’s worth of adventure while working this summer …
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Come every fall, winter and spring quarter, the graduate students in residency at the Environmental Learning Center leave for a long weekend dubbed the “Natural History Retreat.” …
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….’Mountain’, you say, ‘School!’” Mountain!! School!! Mountain! School! It has been another successful season here at Mountain School, the North Cascades Institute’s flagship program through which naturalist-educators …
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Wild Eats From Land to Sea in the San Juan Islands Saturday, June 14, 8:00am to Sunday, June 15, 5:00pm Lopez Island, WA Imagine fulfilling your desires …
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You know when you’re waiting and waiting for your meal to be served at a restaurant so you finally get up to go to the restroom, knowing …
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Highway 20 opened last Thursday at noon after six months of being closed — as it is every winter, due to heavy snows and avalanche danger over …
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Evolution of the Genus Iris A reading by Robert Michael Pyle Saturday, May 10, 2014; 7 pm Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham Free! …
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The anticipation was torture for an amateur botanist from southern climes. It took three weeks for the tight buds to finally crack and unfurl into star-shaped flowers.
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Whoa! Wha….?! Sometimes one’s path is rerouted as they are traveling upon it. Or so it can seem. It was early January, and we graduate students had …
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