By Jennifer O’Toole, graduate student in the Institute’s 16th cohort. Curiosity is born from one of the most unlikely of places: boredom. I used to fight the …
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Last month we welcomed the 2017 naturalist team to the North Cascades Institute Environmental Learning Center. A mixture of new and returning faces, these naturalists are an integral part of …
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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 …
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We are thrilled to have been included in Tim Egan’s cover story for the October 2016 issue of National Geographic! “In early fall I went to North …
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Bill Gaines has been at the forefront of the grizzly bear recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years. I recently had the opportunity to sit …
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By KERA WANIELISTA for the Skagit Valley Herald, November 23, 2015 BOWMAN BAY — Bracing against the wind at Deception Pass State Park’s Bowman Bay, 10-year-old EmmaLee …
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Indira Mejia-Chavez was born in Mexico, but her mom raised her and her two younger siblings in the Skagit valley, where she lives today. Her first experience …
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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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Guest post by Brian Stafki I was part of North Cascades Institute’s Graduate M.Ed. Program third cohort. I felt like I was part of the first, second and …
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“Dear President, Please stop the government shutdown by Sunday. I am dying to go to Mountain School and it is being canceled. I am writing to you …
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