Sit back with a cup of tea and your feet up and enjoy this excerpt from North Cascades Institute’s online poetry reading “Light in Winter: A Dialogue …
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Exciting news! Don Striker has joined North Cascades National Park as the new Superintendent. Striker most recently served as the superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve …
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NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS connect inextricably to the land around them. Their missions are rooted in understanding and exploring the history, present, and future of that …
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North Cascades Institute and Village Books hosted an online conversation on May 13 — part of the Nature of Writing Speaker Series, as well as our ongoing …
Read More of An Evening with Saul Weisberg and Friends
I’ve been reading a lot of books about walking lately: rambling through pages that recount long saunters across lands familiar and foreign. The curriculum is reminding me …
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There is so much to distract us these days from our primary task, which is to renew honorable kinship with the Earth. Yes, economics, politics, justice, health—all …
Read More of “Speaking for the Wild” by Kim Stafford
It’s a problem — pulling a collection of poems together. I had a friend who consulted a Tarot deck. Another who threw a sheaf of poems down …
Read More of “Trails & Tracks; Poems and Memory” by Bill Yake
Poetry from the Porch is back for 2021! This new reading in our ongoing series features the verse of Kyce Bello from her 2020 debut collection “Refugia,” …
Read More of Happy National Poetry Month – enjoy Poetry from the Porch videos
“He fell in love with the area the first time he saw it. And, although he worked long, hard hours on the farm, he always found time …
Read More of New exhibit celebrates the legacy of Skagit artist Jesus Guillén