On a rainy Friday morning in Bellingham, eight environmental educators cram tightly into a van fully equipped in winter gear. The van’s destination—Mt. Baker Ski Area. Rain …
Read More of Snow School 2016: Experiential Education on Mt. Baker
People in Montana and Northwestern Wyoming have been living and recreating in close proximity to grizzlies upon settlement. In Washington nobody has seen a grizzly in nearly …
Read More of Grizzly Bears in the Pacific Northwest: Part 5
Written as an essay for the Conservation Psychology class at Western Washington University. “In wildness lies the hope of the world.” John Muir Today, our world faces …
Read More of Hope Within Wildness
Bill Gaines has been at the forefront of the grizzly bear recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years. I recently had the opportunity to sit …
Read More of Patience and Persistence: An Interview with Grizzly Bear Biologist Bill Gaines
For the North Cascades Institute’s 14th cohort of Graduate M.Ed. students, it was a year marked with adventure, struggle, triumph and togetherness. Our cohort is a very …
Read More of Transition Trek 2015: At the Confluence of the Graduate Residency and Campus Programs
With the near extermination of the grizzly came a tremendous loss to the ecosystem. Grizzlies play an important role in the natural environment as pollinators, seed dispersers, …
Read More of Grizzly Bears In the Pacific Northwest: A Natural History (Part 3)
“In late September 1967, Rocky and Lenora Wilson had packed up to Fisher Basin, one of their favorite places, for the ‘high hunt.’ During twilight hours, a …
Read More of Grizzly Bears In the Pacific Northwest: A Natural History (Part 1)
This is the second article in Mike’s “Howling to be Heard” series; you can read the first one on wolf folklore here. Wolves have been a part …
Read More of Howling to be Heard: Wolf Evolution and Behavior
“My grandmother what big teeth you have.” “The better to eat you with, my dear!” Myths and legends, both positive and negative, have surrounded the wolf for …
Read More of Howling to be Heard: Wolf Folklore
One winter afternoon in 2009 I was driving on a state highway through central Wisconsin on my way back to school in Southeastern Minnesota. Fresh snow blanketed …
Read More of Howling to be Heard: An Introduction to Wolves
