As the snow is melting and Spring is is coming in full force, winter’s grasp is quickly fleeting from our minds. It’s hard to imagine that just …
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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 …
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For the members of Cohort 14, everything is starting to come full circle. The Learning Center looks as it looked when we arrived last July: Pyramid’s faces …
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Time has a variable quality when you live in the mountains. Spring can descend on you with no warning, like it happened overnight, but a day can …
Read More of Passing the Paddle: Cohort 13 Graduation
The M.Ed program through Western Washington University and North Cascades Institute has several different parts to it. Though it evolves and changes every year, the general format …
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In the wintertime interim between teaching Mountain School in the fall and teaching Mountain School in the spring, graduate students in the North Cascades Institute Masters in …
Read More of Non-Profit Ninjas Slay the Behemoth
The North Cascades are full of secrets. One must have a specific intention to discover the scenic treasures of the peaks, and that intention is usually accompanied …
Read More of An Upriver Life: The Skagit Beyond Highway 20
Today is my last day of living at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center—my home since the spring of 2010 when I started working for North Cascades …
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After graduating from North Cascade Institute’s M.Ed. program I began working for the Cowlitz Valley Ranger district as an Invasive Plant Technician. It was really just a …
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What have I been doing since graduating from the North Cascades Institute M.Ed program in 2003? A lot. As it turns out, in a small non profit, …
Read More of From North Cascades Institute to the Montana Natural History Center
