Slowly, gently, the snowflake spirals downwards. It pirouettes through the sky, first drifting this way, then another, finally coming to rest on a precarious pile of powder.
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Students! Parents! Teachers! During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors. We hope …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 16: Glaciers!
Students! Parents! Teachers! During this time of school closures and stay-at-home guidelines, North Cascades Institute is sharing lessons and activities from our talented Mountain School instructors. We hope …
Read More of Mountain School @ Home Lesson 15: Watersheds in the North Cascades and at Home
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
Summer is well underway, though it is a bit cooler in Cascadia than we’ve gotten used to in recent years — no complaints, we’re enjoying the clean air …
Read More of July 2019 Photo Round Up!
This Naturalist Note is written by graduate student Marissa Bluestein, as part of the Fall Natural History Project In North Cascades Institute’s M.Ed. Residency coursework. You can …
Read More of Fire and Ice: How Lava and Glaciers Formed Mount Baker
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 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
By Gavin Willis, graduate student in the institute’s 14th cohort. So much of natural history is about storytelling. Whether it is telling about the budding of Indian Plum …
Read More of Glacial Ice Worms: Ancient Story Tellers
North Cascades Institute hosted a class called Sit, Walk, Write: Nature and the Practice of Presence. Participants began their days with a sitting meditation, followed by writing …
Read More of The Practice of Presence: Responding to Inner & Outer Landscapes Field Notes and Poems (Part Two)
