As students in the Masters of Environmental Education program, naturalizing is at the forefront of our studies. Our curriculum encourages, and requires, us to get outside and …
Read More of Birding Tools of the 21st Century
Two weeks ago I headed down valley on my spring break. Somewhere around Everett, it suddenly hit me that the world was GREEN. I realized that the …
Read More of Spring is Really Coming…
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Institute writing instructor Ana Maria Spagna’s new collection of essays Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness. Join us …
Read More of Ana Maria Spagna's "Spawning in the Mud"
I recently had the opportunity to join Megan McGinty, North Cascades Institutes’ Climate Challenge Program Coordinator, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a meeting with representatives …
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Several weeks back, North Cascades Environmental Learning Center was abuzz with talk of an animal kill on campus near the Peninsula Trail behind the dining hall. A …
Read More of Unsolved Mystery: Dinner on Diablo's Shore
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 …
Read More of Poking Around in Wonder
During my winter break back in the Midwest, I decided to visit a family place near a lake in northern Michigan for a few days for some …
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The sheer power of water was apparent in the North Cascades this last weekend after a recent Pineapple Express hit the Northwest. Warming temperatures combined with a …
Read More of Natural Shifts in the North Cascades
When I awoke the other morning to see a forest of snow-covered trees, I felt just as excited when I made the same discovery as a child …
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Doug Chadwick, a renowned writer of natural history based in Whitefish, Montana, is our first fall speaker in the 5th annual Sourdough Speaker Series at the North …
Read More of The Wolverine Way: An Interview with Doug Chadwick
