**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 …
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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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As a book reviewer for the Cascadia Weekly, I pay close attention to what’s being published, with a special focus on books on regional topics, releases from regional publishers and …
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I remember my first introduction to the world of primitive skills – the day my employer and mentor first showed me how to make fire by friction.
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By Sharon Birzer, artist and natural history illustrator My Creative Residency journal @ North Cascades Learning Center, Diablo Lake, July 11-18, 2014 July 11-13 The first three days …
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Editor’s note: Gary Ferguson teaches a Nature Writing Workshop for the Chuckanut Writers program at WCC on Nov 18, 9:30-4:30, $75. Co-presented by North Cascades Institute, Ferguson …
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Editor’s note: The following essay is an excerpt from the new book The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby, published this fall by …
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North Cascades Institute has always believed that the route to conservation passes through the head and the heart — “we take children outside to fall in love with …
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