In the early morning hours of a chilly October day, Adam Brayton and Christine Sanderson, students with the North Cascades Institute’s Graduate M. Ed program, awoke to …
Read More of An Increasing Presence: Moose of the North Cascades
I love the anticipation of winter—the ski-film fests, the patrol fundraisers, the dusting of snow on ridges. But at this moment, hoping for snow so I can …
Read More of Snow School: Where Science Meets Winter
MOUNTAIN CARIBOU ROAM up and down the mountains from valley bottom to mountaintop, back and forth across an international border, in and out of political discourse, and …
Read More of Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope
“In the beginning, there was nothing but water and ice and a narrow strip of shoreline,” says the oral tradition of the Nuxalk, the coastal people who …
Read More of Better with Beavers: How partnerships with a rodent are helping restore watersheds in the Pacific Northwest
By Jihan Grettenberger, graduate student in the Institute’s 16th cohort. What do you love about the North Cascades and the Skagit Valley? I love the burning feeling …
Read More of Our Water, Your Future: The Story of Climate Change and the Skagit River
By Hanna Davis, graduate student in the Institute’s 16th cohort. There are various facets to graduate life at North Cascades Institute: taking classes, a teaching practicum, work …
Read More of Stories of Change: Storytelling as a Means of Climate Communication
Every Sunday I will be posting photos collected from various NCI graduate students and staff. Please enjoy this glimpse into our everyday lives here in the North Cascades.
Read More of Photo Roundup: April 30 2017
Call of the wild: can America’s national parks survive? America’s national parks are facing multiple threats, despite being central to the frontier nation’s sense of itself by …
Read More of North Cascades Institute in The Guardian
By Manasseh Franklin For much of the lower 48 states, it’s easy to consider glaciers as distant, sometimes extraordinarily so. A great deal of my research and …
Read More of Integral Ice : A Creative Residency reflection
Join North Cascades Institute at Village Books in Bellingham on May 3 at 7 pm for a free reading by Kathleen Dean Moore from her new book Great …
Read More of Great Tide Rising: Toward Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change