Several weeks back, North Cascades Environmental Learning Center was abuzz with talk of an animal kill on campus near the Peninsula Trail behind the dining hall. A …
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Last summer, during the first quarter of our graduate program, our professor John Miles had us read several excerpts by author Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor …
Read More of Poking Around in Wonder
During my winter break back in the Midwest, I decided to visit a family place near a lake in northern Michigan for a few days for some …
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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 …
Read More of Exploring Winter's Arrival
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 …
Read More of Coming full circle in the North Cascades
To explore your own backyards and expand your sense of place—this was the central goal of the 2010 North Cascades Wild’s (NC Wild) first fall day trip, …
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Does Justin go around mumbling about amphibians? Brandi about mycorrhizal fungi? Martine about the medicinal uses of Oregon grape? Natural history projects are the last big curricular …
Read More of Changes, rapid and slow, at the Learning Center
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, …
Read More of Welcome graduate cohort 10!
Oh, to be young and wild and free. That common saying, which most of us recognize, is wholly applicable to the wilderness of the North Cascades and …
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The transition from spring to summer has been a long awaited and hopeful one to those of us living in the Pacific Northwest this year. This past …
Read More of An Institute ode to summer
