Listening to Coyote
By Emily Ford, part of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. After a rainy and dark winter, I’ve started to recognize the North Cascades as I remember them …
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Where the Powerlines Start
Bumper to bumper traffic on I-5 provides the perfect thinking spot. Usually this is the place where my mind starts to wonder things like “Why does traffic …
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John McMillan's Cabin: Traveling the paths of ghosts
By Hannah Newell, a M.Ed. Graduate student of the Institute’s 15th Cohort Where would one place their grave in these woods? And how could one bury themselves? …
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Growing Minds: Tree Planting at Cornet Bay with the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program
Environmental Education has the unique opportunity to bring people and organizations together in the most radical places on this planet. Last month, myself and three other members …
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Finding Freedom in the North Cascades
By Aly Gourd, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. As graduate students and adventurers in the North Cascades, we take risks. We take risks in living where …
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Snow School 2016: Experiential Education on Mt. Baker
On a rainy Friday morning in Bellingham, eight environmental educators cram tightly into a van fully equipped in winter gear. The van’s destination—Mt. Baker Ski Area. Rain …
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Down Valley Conference Adventure: A Grad's Perspective
Living at the Environmental Learning Center near Diablo, WA changes how we approach everyday decisions. Little trips, for instance, turn into a three day down valley adventure! …
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Transition Trek 2015: At the Confluence of the Graduate Residency and Campus Programs
For the North Cascades Institute’s 14th cohort of Graduate M.Ed. students, it was a year marked with adventure, struggle, triumph and togetherness. Our cohort is a very …
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The art of teaching in an unfamiliar ecosystem
In the middle of May, I moved halfway across the country, to a state I’d never been to, to play at a wetland with five- and six-year-olds.
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Cascade Pass: Go. Now!
I have recommended the hike to Cascade Pass and up Sahale Arm to countless visitors in search of a day’s worth of adventure while working this summer …
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