The National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are seeking public input on a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that evaluates options for restoring grizzly …
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In the early 1980s, five young men who loved teaching, the natural world, and the North Cascades dreamed of creating a field school to teach about the …
Read More of “Teaching in the Rain: The Story of North Cascades Institute” by John Miles
In 2023’s frenetic days, it’s hard to believe I once had the incredible privilege of three months as North Cascades Institute’s writer-in-residence. But so it was. In …
Read More of What Water Holds: From the North Cascades to Village Books
You see that fin slicing up through the surface—tall, tall, taller—until at last the body follows and an exhaled plume of breath huffs up? You know you’re …
Read More of Meet the Bigg’s Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
I had one huge question: is this what they actually need? Is this experience something that will be helpful for these students? Is this 9-day canoe experience …
Read More of The Power of Patience: Building Community in Youth Leadership Adventures
You may have heard about the Sourdough Fire burning in the North Cascades from local news or social media, and we want to share directly with you …
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Presented by Village Books and North Cascades Institute Find your next book for the Fall and Winter months ahead in presentations by authors, poets and naturalists sharing …
Read More of Nature of Writing Speaker Series ⎸ Fall 2023
I sat on a sunbaked rock after a long canoe day and watched our students ecstatically jump into the icy cold waters. Two students, Lili and Maya, …
Read More of Languages: Barriers or Bridges in Youth Leadership Adventures?
North Cascades Institute is heartbroken to share the news that Chef Charles Claassen passed away last Thursday. This has been sudden and shocking to all of us …
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Initially preserved to protect its dwindling forests and population of Roosevelt elk, Olympic National Park is home to diverse ecosystems that boast glacier-capped mountains, old-growth temperate rain …
Read More of Campfire Stories: “Syncing Up at Sol Duc” with Rena Priest
