Welcome New Graduate Students!
We are a new generation of environmental leaders. We are the 17th graduate cohort at the North Cascades Institute, ready to immerse ourselves in learning and work …
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Time Along the Skagit: Eagle Watching With Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program and Latino Outdoors
January can be warm on the lower Skagit and this late January Saturday was no exception. As Becky Moore, Alexei Desmarais and I arrived at the Howard …
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S’more Knowledge, S’more Fun: Kulshan Creek at Lyman Slough
Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program is a year-round educational program that engages young people ages 5 to 18 from two Skagit Valley neighborhoods in a series of …
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Ecosystem Engineers: A beaver curriculum
By Hannah Newell, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. A person’s perspective on the beaver is malleable. Some believe they are pests that need to be …
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Soaked with Knowledge: Kulshan Creek at Rasar State Park
All photography courtesy of Adam Bates, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Youth have a unique skill in creating adventures out of anything. So even though …
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Shooting Stars: Nighttime Photography, Wildflowers and More (a preview of 2016!)
By Rob Rich I came to the Pacific Northwest for many reasons, but one of them was, well, for the birds. Were those harlequin ducks for real? …
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Confessions of a Bibliophile
It has been almost two years now since I graduated with my Masters in Education from Western Washington University (WWU) and North Cascades Institute’s unique graduate program.
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Mountain School is ON!: Playing in the Snow, Compensating for the Government Shutdown
Columbia Elementary School was already told once they couldn’t come to Mountain School as planned. So they certainly weren’t going to let the biggest local snowstorm of …
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Life after grad school for an environmental educator and naturalist
ROBBY ASTROVE graduated from North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University’s M.Ed program in 2005 as part of the third Cohort of students. He is currently the …
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