From the Environmental Learning Center dining hall kitchenette where we were all awaiting the arrival of the 5th graders from Burlington-Edison School district, Mia began yelling “the …
Read More of My first day at (Mountain) School
If you can imagine a grayish-brown, rabbit-like creature the size of a grapefruit and nearly as round, that is an American pika. They inhabit mountain slopes, often …
Read More of “Buying Time for Pikas” by Thor Hanson
With the myriad of closures and cancellations surrounding the Covid pandemic over the past year-plus, the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center’s kitchen team has had to find …
Read More of The Search for the Perfect Trail Bar
NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS connect inextricably to the land around them. Their missions are rooted in understanding and exploring the history, present, and future of that …
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We really miss having Mountain School students at the Environmental Learning Center! Until we can welcome them back, Senior Program Instructor Alexa Brandt is sharing one of …
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There is so much to distract us these days from our primary task, which is to renew honorable kinship with the Earth. Yes, economics, politics, justice, health—all …
Read More of “Speaking for the Wild” by Kim Stafford
It’s a problem — pulling a collection of poems together. I had a friend who consulted a Tarot deck. Another who threw a sheaf of poems down …
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By Sasha Savoian, Education Specialist at Re-Sources In a year of isolation, online learning and uncertainty, twenty-nine high school students from Whatcom and Skagit counties mobilized around …
Read More of Youth for the Environment and People? YEP!
“He fell in love with the area the first time he saw it. And, although he worked long, hard hours on the farm, he always found time …
Read More of New exhibit celebrates the legacy of Skagit artist Jesus Guillén
By Heather McPherson The year was 2009, I was a sophomore in high school, and I had no idea I was about to embark on a series …
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