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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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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By Annah Young, 2020 Connections Coordinator I was nervous as I drove up to Kendall Elementary in northern Whatcom County on the first day of the Connections …
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By Terry Tempest Williams, September 2020 With these ashes in hand that have fallen from near and far on the drought-cracked desert of Utah, I raise my …
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Mountain School is the Institute’s 30-year-old flagship program. Students (predominantly 5th graders) travel deep into the North Cascades to spend three days in its ecosystem establishing a foundational relationship with …
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