Hey Bud
You know when you’re waiting and waiting for your meal to be served at a restaurant so you finally get up to go to the restroom, knowing …
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Taking Flight at the Migratory Bird Festival
By Erica Keene Smiles, laughter and flapping arms – I mean, wings. Yes, wings. These were the best parts of a sun-filled weekend spent learning about migratory …
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But To Carry On: Ribes has Arrived!
The anticipation was torture for an amateur botanist from southern climes. It took three weeks for the tight buds to finally crack and unfurl into star-shaped flowers.
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Red Moons, Meteors and Mars! Oh My!
By Kaci Darsow By one thirty in the morning, my beer was empty, my hands were numb and the dimly lit but distinctively red moon was sinking …
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Elk Xing
If you drive on State Route 20 between Sedro-Woolley and Concrete, you can participate in citizen science without even leaving your car. Researchers at Western Washington University …
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Gorging the Senses on Gorge Lake
Though I moved to the Environmental Learning Center last August, I had visited many times before during my first summer while living in Bellingham as a graduate …
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Make a Love Connection: Biophilia in the North Cascades
Five pairs of fifth graders are scattered on the Buster Brown Trail. In each pair, one is blindfolded with a colorful bandana, being carefully – the teacher …
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Fresh Tracks of the Sun Chaser
The glow begins as it would, blanching the sky to make invisible the cosmos. Black becomes cornflower and a fiery fuchsia lights the very highest tips of …
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A-Hunting for the Details
Today I went on a hike looking for wildflowers. I failed, miserably. But this was accounted for in the strategic plan, a given before I’d even cinched …
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"Imaging the Arctic: Climate Science Through Art" at Whatcom Museum, Jan 11
Join North Cascades Institute and the Whatcom Museum on January 11, 2 pm, for the Vanishing Ice Speaker Series! This final presentation in the four-part series will …
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