Exploring Winter's Arrival
When I awoke the other morning to see a forest of snow-covered trees, I felt just as excited when I made the same discovery as a child …
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Coming full circle in the North Cascades
This is a time of transition. The warm summer season is changing as rapidly into a drenching autumn as is my progression from the residency with North …
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Summer's summit
What is a summit experience? For the 10th cohort of graduate students, in NCI’s residency program, the 9-day backpacking trip that culminated their first quarter of graduate …
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Welcome graduate cohort 10!
Summer has finally arrived at the Environmental Learning Center! Diablo Lake has regained its characteristic green color, peregrine falcon fledglings are learning to hunt near the dam, …
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Introducing the 2010 Cascades Climate Challenge Team!! (Part 1)
The North Cascades Institute Staff and Graduate students have spent weeks packing food, preparing curriculum, shuttling canoes, calling students, organizing camping gear and finalizing lessons in preparation …
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Taking on the Ski to Sea
Most of the current North Cascades Institute graduate class – “C9” – participated in another year of the Bellingham Ski to Sea race over the Memorial Day …
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From the Cascades to the Olympics
Spring is here and it was time for the North Cascades Institute cohort-ions of the ninth – C9 graduate students - to take our spring retreat on Sunday, May 23rd …
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Our visit to Wilderness Awareness School and Islandwood
The celebration of my 28th year happened over the second half of the Instructor Exchange last weekend. For those unfamiliar, Instructor Exchange is a fun-filled, long weekend …
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Becoming bird observers
A flit of gold. A flicker of green. Soft song notes from within a tangle of blackberry vines. A surprising whoosh of hovering wing-sweeps, mere inches above …
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In the presence of eagles
Along the Skagit River, the month of December marks the beginning of an incredible display of interaction among two of western Washington’s most prominent species – eagles …
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