North Cascades Institute

Apr 25, 2016Institute Graduate Student

We are the North Cascades Institute. And if you are reading this blog you are somehow affiliated with or are curious about our organization devoted to environmental …
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Apr 18, 2016Institute Graduate Student

By Tyler Davis, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. Spring has arrived and summer will be here before we know it. When I think about summer, I …
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Mar 24, 2016Institute Graduate Student

By Sasha Savoian, part of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. The shifting of seasons. Temperature begins to rise as the arch of the sun lifts. Winds push …
Read More of A Phenology Fix

Mar 21, 2016Ben Kusserow

Phenology, or the study of natural cycles, is a constant part of life at the North Cascades Institute. We dive deep into when the first buds appear …
Read More of Graduation 2016: C14's Grand Finale

Feb 29, 2016Institute Graduate Student

By Hannah Newell, a M.Ed. Graduate student of the Institute’s 15th Cohort Pacific Wren This avian is a year round resident in our coniferous forests but to me …
Read More of Natural Notes on the Pacific Wren and Saw Whet Owl

Jan 11, 2016Institute Graduate Student

By Annah Young, Tyler Davis, and Ginna Malley-Campos who are all graduate students in the institutes 15th cohort. On December 4, 2015, over 20 local farmers, educators, …
Read More of North Cascades Foodshed Summit 2015

Dec 4, 2015Special Guest

By Kristin Musgnug I am a landscape painter whose goal is to make paintings of the kind of places that don’t usually show up in landscape paintings …
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Nov 18, 2015Mike Cuseo

For the North Cascades Institute’s 14th cohort of Graduate M.Ed. students, it was a year marked with adventure, struggle, triumph and togetherness. Our cohort is a very …
Read More of Transition Trek 2015: At the Confluence of the Graduate Residency and Campus Programs

Aug 19, 2015Special Guest

In celebration of the Learning Center’s 10th Anniversary, we’re sharing one of our favorite media stories on our wilderness campus on Diablo Lake in North Cascades National …
Read More of North Cascades Environmental Learning Center "provides the perfect blueprint for Seattle"

Aug 17, 2015North Cascades Institute

We are thrilled with The Seattle Times‘ story on Mountain School, the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center and the Institute’s 30 years of environmental education in the …
Read More of North Cascades Institute in The Seattle Times: "Mountain School makes the magic of the wilderness real for kids"