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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
We were very excited to have Cliff Mass as one of our instructors for the 2010 Northwest Naturalists Retreat, and then thrilled when he posted a piece …
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Does Justin go around mumbling about amphibians? Brandi about mycorrhizal fungi? Martine about the medicinal uses of Oregon grape? Natural history projects are the last big curricular …
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All over Washington, the earth is reawakening. Can you see it? In a period of only a few weeks, spring has come – a monumental paintbrush caressing …
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North Cascades Highway is nearly open. The snowmobiles are put away, the traps are closed for the season and the wolverine crew has moved on to other …
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