The Kinship of Climbing and Farming
I have been daydreaming about homesteading since I was a kid. Three years ago it happened; I was a couple years into my thirties, mid-career at the …
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North Cascades Institute opposes Marblemount Quarry proposal
Skagit County Planning and Development 1800 Continental Place Mount Vernon, WA 98273 Re: Kiewit Infrastructure Quarry Operation, Permit PL19-0033 I am writing to express North Cascades Institute’s …
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Listening to Community Voices: Proposed Mining in Marblemount
On an unusually warm and sunny March Saturday in the Skagit Valley, I visited the home of Kimber Burrows, North Cascades Institute’s Mountain School Manager. Cars filled …
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Graduate Housing Expansion: Growing into the Future
In 2017 we began a $580,000 capital project to increase resiliency, build community and sustain the planned growth of our Graduate M.Ed. Residency program. The project includes …
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Naturalist Notes: February in the Mountains
“No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland February is the beginning of my favorite stretch of year – the transition from winter …
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The Confluence Garden: A Space For Growing Community
Here at the Confluence Garden we’re gearing up for winter. That means bringing in the irrigation hosing, tucking in the garlic bed with a blanket of straw, …
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Blue House Farm
By Tyler Davis, member of the Institute’s 15th Graduate Cohort. Spring has arrived and summer will be here before we know it. When I think about summer, I …
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Snapshots of Paddling on the Skagit
While the Broncos and the Panthers were playing the biggest football game of the year, almost two dozen of us living in the upper Skagit valley traveled …
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Primitive Skils: A Lesson in Reconnection
I remember my first introduction to the world of primitive skills – the day my employer and mentor first showed me how to make fire by friction.
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Cascade Pass: Go. Now!
I have recommended the hike to Cascade Pass and up Sahale Arm to countless visitors in search of a day’s worth of adventure while working this summer …
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