Saying goodbye…for now
Today is my last day of living at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center—my home since the spring of 2010 when I started working for North Cascades …
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Long Goodbyes
Five weeks seems like a long time to spend in the North Cascades, but as the final days of my sabbatical from National Parks magazine approached, I …
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Joining the pack
I’ve spent two weeks at North Cascades Institute now, and I’m starting to feel like a member of the pack. But it took a while. I was …
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Seasonal transitions for a graduate student
Right now the Learning Center is transitioning from spring into summer, though the weather might not always show it. All of the graduate students in cohort 12, …
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In my backyard…
As winter comes to an end and we transition into the spring and summer months, something really exciting happens. I’m not talking about plants flowering and birds …
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Winter Canoe Adventure
What is a sunny day in January for, if not an adventure? On one such day a couple months back, I headed out in the Institute’s 14-person …
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Winter Reflection Brings Out The Poet
I was sitting in my house, thinking, and the first few lines of a poem that I haven’t thought of in years popped into my head: “In …
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A Winter Photo Tour of the Learning Center
It’s hard to describe where I live sometimes, especially in the winter (by which I mean late November through April). Most people I know aren’t familiar with …
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2013 Instructor Exchange
Each winter, students at North Cascades Institute, Islandwood, and Wilderness Awareness School get together over three weekends, one gathering at each of our campuses, to share the …
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A Winter Vocabulary Lesson
Hibernaculum (hi-buhr-NAK-yuh-luhm) (Latin, “tent for winter quarters”) can refer to: (zoology) The location chosen by an animal for hibernation. Commonly this may be a hibernating mammal or …
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