Connecting to the natural world was tough when I was younger. I was taught that understanding the natural world was the domain of a scientist, …
Read More of Submarine Parents: How Orcas use Social Strategy in Parenting
Driving east on Highway 20, in route to my first day of class at the North Cascades Institute, I remember being struck by the wide valley narrowing …
Read More of Life After Glaciation: Upper Skagit River Bull Trout
When I was growing up in Western Washington summer was a glorious time. The cold weather and relentless rain would finally cease, and the warm embrace of …
Read More of Playing With Fire: A Cultural History of Wildfire in Western Washington
It was a cold, rainy day and I was hiking up to North Cascade Institute’s iconic hike: the Sourdough Waterfall. I was shadowing my first Mountain School …
Read More of Sweet Treat: Licorice Ferns in the North Cascades
If you asked me how I would describe myself on any given day, I might say that I am an educator and a student, a (slow) runner …
Read More of Citizen Science: An Ode to Collaboration
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas …
Read More of Rivers: Rebuilding Relationships with the Natural World.
The North Cascades Ecosystem is full of wonders I never thought I would experience when I first moved here from Florida. From snow on the mountain tops …
Read More of Cold-Blooded and Cold-Tolerant: Finding Reptiles In the North Cascades Ecosystem
When I’d chosen to write a natural history project on wasps, the only lead I had was that maybe I should pay a visit to Twisp. There …
Read More of Between Fear and Fascination: Studying Vespids in the North Cascades
