By Vince Richardson for the Skagit Valley Herald DIABLO LAKE — To truly learn about the great outdoors, one has get out into it and experience the …
Read More of Mountain School: a campus in the great outdoors
Editor’s note: Mountain School is about to start back up for its fall season! After teaching two seasons and hundreds of students last year, I thought a …
Read More of Op Ed: The Education of an Environmental Educator
….’Mountain’, you say, ‘School!’” Mountain!! School!! Mountain! School! It has been another successful season here at Mountain School, the North Cascades Institute’s flagship program through which naturalist-educators …
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Highway 20 opened last Thursday at noon after six months of being closed — as it is every winter, due to heavy snows and avalanche danger over …
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By Kimberly Hall March 28th, 2014 10:38 am Somewhere in South Seattle We n’de ya ho We n’de ya ho Win de yah Win de yah ho …
Read More of Tales from a Greyhound Bus: From Goodbyes to New Beginnings
A small avalanche across Highway 20 just east of Newhalem at milepost 121 had residents of the Environmental Learning Center stuck at home Monday morning through Thursday …
Read More of The Snow and The Shining
There’s a t-shirt that proclaims, “SAVE THE HUMANS.” It’s usually accompanied by an image of a cartoon whale, or maybe a panda bear. Have you seen it? …
Read More of Holy Gaia! I've Been Saved!: The Nature of Education and Vice Versa
Five pairs of fifth graders are scattered on the Buster Brown Trail. In each pair, one is blindfolded with a colorful bandana, being carefully – the teacher …
Read More of Make a Love Connection: Biophilia in the North Cascades
Guest post by Katherine Storrs Nothing beats the moments when you witness a student make connections between the environmental education lessons taught here at the North Cascades …
Read More of Sensory Awareness: The Gateway to Environmental Empathy
I watched quietly as each bend in the road revealed more of the steep, inaccessible wilderness that looms above Highway 20. It was my first couple of …
Read More of Seeking Spirituality in the North Cascades
