Why Natural History Matters
Thomas Fleischner, co-founder of North Cascades Institute, will read from The Way of Natural History at Village Books on July 8 at 4 pm. Info at www.ncascades.org/events.
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Tony Angell is for the Birds: Celebrating life of the Puget Sound
As part of our “Nature of Writing” series, John Marzluff & Tony Angell present Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to …
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In the Company of Corvids: John Marzluff in the North Cascades
As part of our “Nature of Writing” series, John Marzluff & Tony Angell present Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to …
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Gifts of the Crow: A Conversation with John Marzluff and Tony Angell
As part of our “Nature of Writing” series, John Marzluff & Tony Angell present Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to …
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Bird Migrations at Ebey's Landing
This past Earth Day Weekend, the North Cascades Institute hosted the 3rd Anuual Migratory Bird Festival! The event was sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and brought …
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The Animal Dialogues: A Natural History Book Reflection
In 2010, I completed a year-long bicycle tour through many countries famous for their exotic creepy crawlies and, while reading Craig Childs’ book The Animal Dialogues, I couldn’t …
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The Sweet Smell of Winter
For field biologists, winter is typically the time of year when we hunker down, pore over data, fix gear, drink lots of coffee, and dream of spring …
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Latitudinal and Longitudinal Explorations of Natural History
As much as we love North Cascadian landscapes, we here at the Institute are still called to visit and experience other amazing places on our planet. We …
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Naming as Knowing
Practicing natural history requires us to be consciously aware, to be intentional observers of our surroundings. To be a naturalist involves surrendering what we know about a …
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Fall Vignettes from the Institute
People experience the seasonal transformations of the natural world in a myriad of ways. Each of us may recognize subtleties taking hold of a landscape in times …
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