Rock On, Gerry!
Gerry Cook caps 44 years of service with the US National Park Service with a beautiful retirement party at Eagle Haven winery Story by special guest Elisabeth …
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The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader
Pacific Crest Trailside Reader series Co-Editor Rees Hughes will be doing a reading from his new book Saturday, November 12 beginning at 7 p.m. at Village Books in …
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The call of the sandhill crane
By Hank Leftner — Join us at the Learning Center on October 22-23, 2011 for a Sourdough Speaker Series presentation by Hank as he introduces us to …
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The History of Skagit Dams – Seeing Things Anew
By Ana Maria Spagna I’ve driven Washington’s Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, for years. I used live in Rockport right along the highway, and I used …
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A Trip on the Mule with Ranger Gerry Cook
Story and photos by Zach Montes It is July 26th and 55 degrees at the Ross Lake trailhead. The Cascade Climate Challenge participants, about to embark on …
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See the wild side with new North Cascades tours
Seattle City Light’s Skagit Tours has added a guided van-and-hiking day tour of its Skagit hydroelectric project and nearby falls, gorges and viewpoints of the North Cascades.
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New NW wildflower field guide for iPhones
By Daniel Matthews Editor’s note: Renowned Northwest naturalist Daniel Mathews, author of Cascade-Olympic Natural History, recently released a new field guide with a twist — “Northwest Mountain …
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Green Fire: A History of Huxley College
by Bill Dietrich I’ve led a double life, writing about Nazis, pirates, and Napoleonic generals in my fiction but drawing on my newspaper experience to teach environmental …
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Institute recognized with NPS award
By Kurt Repanshek, originally published in National Parks Traveler July 7, 2011. For a quarter-century the North Cascades Institute has been working in partnership with the National …
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Lessons from Nature
A group poem written by the 4th graders of Lummi Nation School, based on an Ute Prayer. The poem was drawn from inspiration during students’ time at …
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