Finding Our Inner Child
Despite the fact it seems like we just said goodbye to the final fall Mountain School group only a few weeks ago, the spring season is fast approaching. Staff …
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Living Life in the Here and Now
I like taking photos. I really like taking photos. I have taken tens of thousands of photos in my life, many of them over the course of …
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Poking Around in Wonder
Last summer, during the first quarter of our graduate program, our professor John Miles had us read several excerpts by author Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor …
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Remembering the Small Things
When you bring 40 environmental educators together to share stories, songs, ideas, and experiences, the outcome can be amazing. On January 15th, instructors from IslandWood, Wilderness Awareness …
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A Naturalist's Weekend: Exploring Fungi, Fire and Beetles
After several weeks of preparing for and teaching fall Mountain School, graduate students of Cohort 10 momentarily stepped away from their roles as instructors and transitioned back …
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Coming full circle in the North Cascades
This is a time of transition. The warm summer season is changing as rapidly into a drenching autumn as is my progression from the residency with North …
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Changing Lives
This summer, “Changing Lives†became a rallying slogan for interpreters at the North Cascades National Park Visitor Center in Newhalem. This phrase reminded us of the impact …
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Summer's summit
What is a summit experience? For the 10th cohort of graduate students, in NCI’s residency program, the 9-day backpacking trip that culminated their first quarter of graduate …
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Changes, rapid and slow, at the Learning Center
Does Justin go around mumbling about amphibians? Brandi about mycorrhizal fungi? Martine about the medicinal uses of Oregon grape? Natural history projects are the last big curricular …
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Welcome graduate cohort 10!
Summer has finally arrived at the Environmental Learning Center! Diablo Lake has regained its characteristic green color, peregrine falcon fledglings are learning to hunt near the dam, …
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