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 hope …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 13: A Love Letter to the Douglas Fir
Mountain School instructors Jillian Ross, Imara White, Alexa Brandt, and Kari Paustian bring you this wonderful reinvention of a traditional Mountain School activity that goes by the acronym “ACHOTUS” (which stands …
Read More of Mountain School at Home ACHOTUS Ep1: Indigenous Presence
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 12: I Spy Nature
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 hope …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 11: Shadow Painting & Poetry
What makes boats so charming, so timeless, and so convivial? Let us travel backward along the river of time to the late 1920’s when the Skagit River …
Read More of Virtual Skagit Tours
Do you think that a place can have a purpose? What does it look like when a place embodies an intention? Nestled into the Douglas firs and …
Read More of New videos on the History of the Learning Center
In this time of protest and pandemic, I am struck by the loneliness of being a social animal in a world that tells us not to touch.
Read More of Where do we go to grieve? Where do we go to heal?
The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Charleena Lyles, Manuel Ellis, Rayshard Brooks — as well as the experiences of birders J. Drew Lanham and …
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Meet Tae —a Bellingham local who first joined us at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center in 2009 with her 5th grade class from Birchwood Elementary. She …
Read More of Mountain School Reflections #4: Tae
What makes a raptor a raptor? Enjoy this talk about birds like hawks and eagles and how they hunt prey with instructor Lindsay McCord. Awesome …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home: Raptors!
