While I have personally never beheaded a chicken, I’ve definitely heard the saying, “running around like a chicken with its head cut off,” but I have never …
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Spring means a lot of things. Growth. New life. Lots of color. Bright greens. Warmth. Sunshine. Rain. Melting snow. Longer days. Last month, cohort 12 graduate students …
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Vargas Island wolves at Clayoquot Sound, BC; photo by David Moskowitz. David Moskowitz presents his new book Wolves in the Land of Salmon at Village Books in …
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Andrea Reiter is a graduate student at North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University studying environmental education. She grew up in Washington, getting the opportunity to explore …
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Graduate student Jacob Belsher writes a natural history book review on John McPhee’s Basin and Range According to James Hutton, a Scottish geologist working in the late …
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Three times during their year-long residency, the graduate students at the Learning Center venture outside for three days to learn about natural history. Our winter natural history …
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Hillary Schwirtlich is a graduate student in her third quarter of North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University’s M.Ed. program. She grew up in South Texas, moved …
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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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Every year, graduate students at North Cascades Institute are tasked with keeping a Natural History Journal. At the end of each quarter we turn in ten selected …
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North Cascades Institute welcomes Robert Michael Pyle to Village Books in Bellingham, 1200 11th St., Friday, December 7, 7 pm. Free! Robert Michael Pyle has been interpreting …
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