Students! Parents! Teachers! During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors. We …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home: Lesson 1 – Sit Spots
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of Mountain School! Over the past 29 years, more than 30,000 youth from Northwestern Washington State have traveled up the Skagit River on Highway 20, past …
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Covid-19 forces Environmental Education Centers to refund $4M to Public Schools Residential Environmental Education programs in Washington collectively serve over 50,000 Washington school kids each year. Our programs …
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By Kimberly Cauvel for the Skagit Valley Herald originally published August 10, 2019 Between stints of fear, self-doubt and even physical pain at times, a group of …
Read More of Area high schoolers immersed in North Cascades
To: Premier of British Columbia John Joseph Horgan Dear Premier Horgan, I am writing to express North Cascades Institute’s opposition to the permit application by Imperial Metals for …
Read More of Letter opposing mining in the Skagit River Headwaters
In 2019, Smokey Bear celebrates 75 years at the forefront of the Forest Service’s wildfire prevention campaign. To commemorate Forest Service wildfire prevention efforts, replicas of historic …
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Skagit County Planning and Development 1800 Continental Place Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Re: Kiewit Infrastructure Quarry Operation, Permit PL19-0033 I am writing to express North Cascades Institute’s …
Read More of North Cascades Institute opposes Marblemount Quarry proposal
A small parcel of land overlooking Fidalgo Bay was a hub of activity last Saturday as 12 high school students with the North Cascade Institute embarked on …
Read More of Youth Ambassadors Work to Return Fidalgo Bay Property to its Natural State
State, federal, and partner biologists will release approximately 8 fishers Wednesday, December 5, in the Skagit River watershed of Ross Lake National Recreation Area, a unit of …
Read More of Restoration of Fishers to the North Cascades Begins!
Saul Weisberg remembers when it hit him. In the early 1980s, he and two friends were on a climbing trip in the Pickets, a notoriously hard-to-reach chain …
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