On an unusually warm and sunny March Saturday in the Skagit Valley, I visited the home of Kimber Burrows, North Cascades Institute’s Mountain School Manager. Cars filled …
Read More of Listening to Community Voices: Proposed Mining in Marblemount
Do you have childhood memories of daydreaming about being a squirrel and gliding from tree to tree in a forest? Can you recall getting lost in tiny …
Read More of Forest School: An Environmental Education
The North Cascades Environmental Learning Center is home to an extensive Natural History collection used for environmental programming located in the Sundew Classroom. Named after a carnivorous …
Read More of Under the Stars: Astronomy at the Environmental Learning Center
The North Cascades Institute offers a great diversity of year-round programming, but few will disagree that Mountain School has been one of our greatest successes. For 28 years, the …
Read More of On the Bus to Wonder: Burlington-Edison Joins Our Mountain School Community
The Skagit Valley has been one of my favorite places to photograph bird life in Washington state. Winter season is one of the best times of the …
Read More of Raptors of the Samish Flats: The Photography of Mukul Soman
I’ve devoted the last three years of my life to figuring out how to combine two of my greatest passions: environmental activism and environmental education. In 2018 …
Read More of Reconnect Earth: Activating the Next Generation of Environmental Advocates
On November 17, 2018 I attended the ninth annual Northwest Youth Leadership Summit at The Mountaineers Seattle Program Center. While I was there, I interacted with leaders …
Read More of Empowering Future Environmental Leaders: 2018 Northwest Youth Leadership Summit
I love the anticipation of winter—the ski-film fests, the patrol fundraisers, the dusting of snow on ridges. But at this moment, hoping for snow so I can …
Read More of Snow School: Where Science Meets Winter
In December, I was able to volunteer with the Kulshan Creek Program in Villa Santa Maria along with two other members of the North Cascades Institute’s M.Ed …
Read More of The Environmental Educator’s Dilemma: How to Bring the Outdoors Inside
Last October, I had the pleasure of representing North Cascades Institute’s Youth Leadership Adventures (YLA) at the SHIFT Festival in Jackson, Wyoming. This year, the festival explored the health benefits …
Read More of 2018 SHIFT Awards: Connecting Public Lands and Public Health!
