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Wilderness medicine courses at the Environmental Learning Center

Wilderness medicine courses at the Environmental Learning Center

Oct 18, 2018North Cascades Institute

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Goodbye Saul, Hello Bec!
The Search for the Perfect Trail Bar
Land Acknowledgements: Why and How Are Nature Centers Using Them?
“So Long, Saul” Online Retirement Celebration
An Evening with Saul Weisberg and Friends

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North Cascades campgrounds may be packed this summ

North Cascades campgrounds may be packed this summer but we still have space for you: AUGUST 12-14 and AUGUST 26-29

Base Camp stays at our Environmental Learning Center campus put you in the heart of North Cascades National Park and include:

• Accommodations in our comfortable guest lodges
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner made with local, organic ingredients
• Learning activities provided by our staff naturalists
• Easy access to nearby North Cascades trails and recreation

Visit ncascades.org/basecamp to reserve your stay.

📸: 1-Katie Manz; 3-Ross Miller; 4-Rick Allen; 5-Jodi Broughton; 7-Chris Nosko

📍Ancestral homelands of the Upper Skagit, Nłeʔkepmx Tmíxʷ, Swinomish, Syilx Tmix (Okanagan), and Sauk-Suiattle peoples

❄️ The Boston glacier is the largest glacier i

❄️ The Boston glacier is the largest glacier in North Cascades National Park. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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❄️ It’s approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) long and nearly 3.5 mi (5.6 km) wide⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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❄️ Extending in an arc from the north of Forbidden Peak, flanked by Boston Peak to the southwest and Buckner Mountain to the east ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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❄️ The Boston glacier has been in an overall state of retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850. After a moderate advance in the mid 1900s, it’s retreat resumed and its terminus has lost 1,470 ft (450 m)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have you ever seen the Boston glacier or been adventurous enough to climb one of its surrounding peaks?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📍Ancestral lands of the Nlaka’pamux & Syilx tmix (Okanagan)

Do you know what creatures made these tracks? Fin

Do you know what creatures made these tracks?
Find out in our upcoming field course: SUMMER WILDLIFE TRACKING

On August 21st, we’ll be joined by Chris Byrd on the banks of the Stillaguamish River to learn about the hidden world of animals through basic wildlife tracking skills. Chris will cover…

🐾 Identification of genus and species to know who's out there

🐾 Gait interpretation to understand what was happening

🐾 How to age the tracks for a sense of time and behavior

We will also learn more about the signs animals leave behind that reveal behaviors such as finding food, reproduction, establishing territories, or staying hidden to avoid being someone else’s meal.

REGISTER: ncascades.org/classes

🔥🏠 There are currently 93 fire lookouts in W

🔥🏠 There are currently 93 fire lookouts in Washington still standing in their officially used locations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🔥🏠 3 lookouts are located in North Cascades National Park⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🔥🏠 2 of those lookouts were seasonal homes poet/writers Gary Snyder & Jack Kerouac, where they crafted some of their iconic works⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Can you name any or all of the fire lookouts in the park?
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📸: @sarina_pizzala

We are BACK, we are EXCITED, and we are OUTDOORS!

We are BACK, we are EXCITED, and we are OUTDOORS! This summer’s first round of Youth Leadership Adventures has been a huge success, with 24 students completing 8-day hiking and canoe-camping trips in the North Cascades backcountry. We have 17 more students gearing up to leave TODAY and a final group heading out in August.

A HUGE shout out to our instructors Jen, Eric, Hannah, Emily, Iman, and Sam and our amazing YLA leadership team of Julie, Elle, and Mia who have been working for months to ensure the gear, routes, safety plans, and food are all in place for participants to have an amazing adventure.

THANK YOU for your support of this program. Together we are helping young people discover and build their leadership strengths, create inclusive communities, and identify pathways to a sustainable vision for the future.

Learn more about this program at www.ncascades.org/youth.

📍Ancestral home lands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish peoples

🌻 July 26-31 is #BlackBotanistsWeek2021⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌻 Black botanists week is a social movement inspired by Black birders week to showcase and amplify hidden faces and voices of Black people who share a love for plants and nature and/or work with plants ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌻 Black botanists week aims to inspire and encourage better representation of all botanists from diverse fields and knowledge foundations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📸: @blackbotanistsweek

After their SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TRAIL BAR to in

After their SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TRAIL BAR to include in Institute program snack packs, our kitchen team has found the magic combination of tasty ingredients. And they're sharing it with you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These toothsome treats are filled with healthful, wholesome fruits and seeds to power you up the trail: dried dates, apples and cranberries; chia, sunflower and hemp seeds; agave nectar, sunbutter, and toasted oats.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Visit blog.ncascades.org to get the RECIPE and the full story of its creation.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📸: Head Chef Dan Bullard

After 14 years serving as the Director of the Nort

After 14 years serving as the Director of the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, it's time for Kristofer Gilje to move on to his next adventure. He will retire in October to spend more time with his family in Bellingham. What Kristofer has brought to Learning Center operations and risk management, to program development and staff support, and to the overall well-being, stability and professionalism of our organization is beyond measure. We'll be sharing more of our appreciation over the months to come. Feel free to share your reflections and favorite Kristofer stories in the comments!

"I have had the privilege of working with scores of wonderful people, staff and graduate students, over the years. I have learned something from every one of these individuals. The combination of all of us, together with all those who came before us, have enabled this organization to remain relevant and uniquely equipped to meet our mission." -- KG

And so a new chapter begins as we begin the search for the next Learning Center Director... help us spread the word: https://ncascades.org/jobs

More so than most cities, Seattle has shaped itsel

More so than most cities, Seattle has shaped itself to suit its needs—removing hills, filling tide flats, and creating a completely new downtown shoreline. Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape as it was before settlers arrived. As the city grew, leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered the topography to accommodate their changing visions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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On Sept. 9, we'll take a virtual walk with David Williams to explore the last vestiges of the former downtown bluffs, trace the island where Seattle began, and examine how the subterranean fill still affects the modern landscape. He will also illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down Denny Hill.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This talk is based on David's award-winning book, Too High and Too Steep.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SECRETS OF SEATTLE'S HISTORIC SHORELINE, Sept 9 at 7 PM.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Visit ncascades.org/classes for more info and to sign up.

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