The magic of wolverine tracking
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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Naturalist Notes
An Institute ode to spring
Harbinger—a presage, a foreshadow, to announce. Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something. We all experience the wildness of the North Cascades differently. Each of …
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Capturing the Cascades wolverine
You would think it wouldn’t work. First of all, the wolverine is an elusive creature. It inhabits the untrammeled heights of mountain ranges and is rarely seen …
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Crossing a bobcat's path
It is nearing the end of February, and yet, while spring is shouting out with buds blossoming and fair weather, I find myself craving the cold of …
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Encounters of a wolverine kind
It is the radio call we’ve been waiting for all season. Adam and I linger beside the truck, waiting to unload a couple of snowmobiles and get …
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Becoming bird observers
A flit of gold. A flicker of green. Soft song notes from within a tangle of blackberry vines. A surprising whoosh of hovering wing-sweeps, mere inches above …
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"I saw the weasel"
By Katie Roloson For those of you who have worked in environmental education, at a summer camp, or with kids you may have played the game, “Bob …
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Trying out twig tracking
At the Environmental Learning Center, the weather this week hints almost of spring. It is tempting to get swept away from the season at hand into those …
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Watching winged friends
When the crops of the Skagit farmlands are put to rest for winter, they come. With the sky’s gray backdrop so common to a winter in western …
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Venturing south for a snowshoe
December 21st, the official start of winter, has just only recently passed. Though it may be only a calendar date to some, in Washington’s Cascades, winter’s arrival …
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