Sunrise on Pyramid Peak, taken from the Environmental Learning Center parking lot. Photo by Angela Burlile Every Sunday I will be posting photos collected from various NCI …
Read More of NCI Weekly Photo Roundup: December 4 2016
It seems a little strange to write about summer as we step into winter but there has to be a start to every story and the story …
Read More of A Look Back At Our Summer in the North Cascades
This is the first of a weekly photo roundup series I will be posting here on Chattermarks. These photos are collected from various NCI graduate students and staff, …
Read More of Weekly Photo Roundup: November 27 2016
Chompers and Lewisa, the new beaver residents of Beaver Creek, quickly became much more active as their wire cages were placed in the cold creek, splashing about …
Read More of Wildlife Encounters In The Methow: A Natural History Intensive
The 16th graduate cohort has arrived at the North Cascades Institute. Tasked with the responsibility of introducing ourselves to you readers, I thought it best to start …
Read More of What is a cohort? An Introduction To C16
If you are new to or unfamiliar with the North Cascades Institute, there are a few bits of jargon that need to be explained: Western Washington University has …
Read More of An Open Letter to the 16th Cohort
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 …
Read More of Soaked with Knowledge: Kulshan Creek at Rasar State Park
By Véronique Robigou – Artist, Geologist, and Natural Science Illustrator. At the start of the year, I was very fortunate to join the legion of artists, naturalists, and …
Read More of Winter Musing in an Alpine Refuge: Creative residency January 18-30, 2016
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 …
Read More of The Trifecta: C14's Last Natural History Retreat
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
