Seasons In The Skagit: Fall
Fall Hello everyone! We are moving towards the end of fall and the beginning of winter in the Skagit Valley. The leaves are falling from the trees …
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Wildlife Encounters In The Methow: A Natural History Intensive
Chompers and Lewisa, the new beaver residents of Beaver Creek, quickly became much more active as their wire cages were placed in the cold creek, splashing about …
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A Question of Scale: Plant Phenology Across Time and Space
By Joe Loviska, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. March 20, 2016. I’ve been keeping an eye on the western flowering dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) out in …
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The Social Lives of Trees: Part 3 Underground Partnerships
By Emma Ewert, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Take a look at part one and part two of her series on the social lives of trees! While …
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Wolverines: A Natural History
By Tyler Davis, graduate student of the Institute’s 15th cohort. Wolverines are elusive creatures that are primarily found in the far reaches of wilderness areas. These animals …
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The Social Lives of Trees: Part 2 Mycorrhizal Fungi
By Emma Ewert, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Take a look at part one of her series on the social lives of trees! It is …
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The Social Lives of Trees: Part 1
By Emma Ewert, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. I have always found trees comforting and familiar. Playing in the dense woods surrounding my childhood home, …
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Mapping a Sense of Place
By Aly Gourd, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Imagine a world that makes sense. Mentally erase all of the tangled lines on the old, industrial-age …
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Urban Foraging: A back-country approach to front-country living
By Rob Healy, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Somewhere at the murky crossroads of a lifelong passion for preparedness and survival, the excitement of days …
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Eating Snow: Climate Change, Snowpack and Agriculture Water-Use Policy in the Methow Valley
By Annah Young, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. I wedged myself between two boulders on the summit of Silver Star Mountain in Okanagan County, Washington …
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