Seasons In The Skagit: Fall
Fall Hello everyone! We are moving towards the end of fall and the beginning of winter in the Skagit Valley. The leaves are falling from the trees …
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Wildlife Encounters In The Methow: A Natural History Intensive
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 …
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What is a cohort? An Introduction To C16
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 …
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Classroom in Bloom: Growing the locavores of tomorrow
Hot. Dry. Dusty. A perfect description for the Methow Valley, an area currently in a severe drought. So it was rather surprising then when the new graduate …
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The Trifecta: C14's Last Natural History Retreat
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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Connections in the North Cascades
by Rachel Gugich, M.Ed. Graduate Student “The point at which two or more things are connected, A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or …
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The art of teaching in an unfamiliar ecosystem
In the middle of May, I moved halfway across the country, to a state I’d never been to, to play at a wetland with five- and six-year-olds.
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Nearing completion
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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Graduate M.Ed. Program on the road
Staff from our Graduate M.Ed. Program will be attending several of the Northwest’s best graduate school exhibitions this month. If you live near any of these places and …
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Park Creek Pass: A Tale of Two Hikes
It was early August, and time for the end-of-quarter North Cascades backpacking adventure for the new graduate students, collectively called “Cohort 13.” At 12 people, plus two …
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