Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest Jack Nisbet (Sasquatch Books) Spokane-based writer Jack Nisbet is a treasure for anyone interested in the ways natural …
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Northwest Coast Indian Art Bill Holm (University of Washington Press) From blankets to gambling sticks, coffins to rain hats, spoons to shaman’s paraphernalia, seemingly every material aspect …
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One of the pillars of North Cascade Institute and Western Washington University’s M.Ed. graduate program is a “sense of place.” This can be hard to define, but …
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As part of our “Nature in Writing” series, Joseph K. Gaydos and Audrey DeLella Benedict read from The Salish Sea, Thursday, April 16, 7 pm, in the …
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North Cascades Institute welcomes Colin Haley and his presentation “From Shuksan to Cerro Torre” to the Mountaineers Seattle Program Center April 10, 2015 at 7 pm as …
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by Lauren Ridder, M.Ed. Graduate Student There are only a couple of things that can stop me in my tracks. When clouds part to reveal a night sky …
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**Editor’s Note: sharing this information from our friends at North Cascades National Park. Public Invited to Open Houses on Options for Grizzly Bear Restoration in North Cascades Ecosystem …
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By Christian Martin (Originally published in the Cascadia Weekly, Jan 2015) In the same week that the Republicans put all of their political muscle in to pushing …
Read More of This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein’s manifesto on “capitalism vs. the climate”
One winter afternoon in 2009 I was driving on a state highway through central Wisconsin on my way back to school in Southeastern Minnesota. Fresh snow blanketed …
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At the start of 2015, the themes of change and transformation are on my mind. It seems impossible not to think of these with so much attention …
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