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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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By popular request, our recipe for Mountain School

By popular request, our recipe for Mountain School Trail Cookies! 🍪🍪🍪 DOUBLE your gift to Mountain School this month up $10,000—thanks to matching 1:1 funds from a generous donor!

💚 ncascades.org/donate

#elvistheraven #trailcookies #mountainschool #environmentallearningcenter #learnoutside #teachoutside #outdoorsforall #northcascades #northcascadesinstitute

Are you ready to have some fungi? 🤓 Oct 9 Fie

Are you ready to have some fungi? 🤓

Oct 9 Field Course: BEFRIENDING FUNGI 🍄🍄🍄 If you have ever wanted to dig into the rich world of fungi, this basic course may be your shovel of knowledge!

In Bellingham’s lush Hundred Acre Woods, Institute naturalist and expert guide Evan, will help you connect with fungi using hand lenses, diagrams, field guides, and your innate observation skills. We’ll begin to build a visual vocabulary that helps us notice the salient characteristics of one mushroom type or another.

Evan will also cover basic fungus ecology, the broader implications of fungus health, and probably some silly mushroom poems.

REGISTER > ncascades.org/classes

#fungusamoungus #mushroomnerd #learningisfun #northcascades #mushrooms #fantasticfungi #northcascadesinstitute #northcascadesinstitute #environmentaleducation #environment #learnoutside #teachoutside

Earlier this week, 5th graders from Mount Erie Ele

Earlier this week, 5th graders from Mount Erie Elementary in Anacortes crossed Diablo Dam Road and arrived here at the Learning Center for 3 days of hiking trails to a waterfall, singing silly songs, and peering at tiny critters under microscopes.

During Mountain School, students engage in 26 HOURS of learning about the natural world—the equivalent of one month in their science class!

Make a gift to Mountain School in September and your donation will be DOUBLED UP TO $10,000—thanks to 1:1 matching funds from a generous donor!

💚 ncascades.org/donate

📍The Environmental Learning Center is located on the ancestral homelands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish peoples

#learningisfun #mountainschool #environmentallearningcenter #learnoutside #teachoutside #outdoorsforall #northcascades #northcascadesinstitute

We can’t live in the past, but it doesn’t mean

We can’t live in the past, but it doesn’t mean we can’t visit it.

#flashbackfriday to wildflowers in meadows, late sunsets and summer nights.

What’s your favorite memory from the summer?

📸: @lj_discovers

There's just 1 week left till the North Cascades V

There's just 1 week left till the North Cascades Visitor Center in Newhalem, WA closes its doors until next year! We operate the gift shop here in partnership with @ncascadesnps and it's been so fun to share Sarah Stamps Woolson's art with thousands of park visitors—many of which brought home her original paintings as colorful reminders of their visit.

If you can't make it to the Visitor Center by Sept 30, see what Sarah's working on in her studio at @cascadevibes

📍The North Cascades Visitor Center rests on the ancestral home lands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, and Sauk-Suiattle peoples

From attending Mountain School as a kid, to kickin

From attending Mountain School as a kid, to kicking off this season’s program as our new Mountain School Manager, Eric Buher’s path comes full circle!

Some of his favorite memories of Mountain School as a kid:

🌲 Sleeping in green canvas tents at the Newhalem Creek Campground

🌲 Eating in the rain under a tarp shelter with an open-air kitchen

🌲 Learning that the slime on a banana slug’s back is a natural anesthetic—and giving it a lick! (Yeah, no… we no longer encourage students to experience nature by licking it!)

Read more about Eric’s journey at blog.ncascades.org.

💚 Please help us sustain Mountain School with a gift this September >> ncascades.org/donate

Happy almost fall 🍁!

Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox, specifically at 6:04pm pacific time.

🍁 During the autumnal equinox, the sun shines directly on the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres get the same amount of rays

🍁 The autumnal equinox is an astronomical event that marks the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere

🍁 After the autumnal equinox, days become shorter than nights as the Sun continues to rise later and nightfall arrives earlier

🍁 After the autumnal equinox marks the beginning of our other favorite season, larch season

What’s your favorite thing about fall in the North Cascades?

📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux, Sauk Suiattle, Syilx (Okanagan) & Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
📸: @ms_elanie

Space available in this weekend's field course: H

Space available in this weekend's field course: HAWKWATCHING AT CHELAN RIDGE, Sept 23-24

Every autumn, thousands of hawks, eagles and falcons cruise along a high ridge above Lake Chelan as they migrate to winter territories. Together with North Cascades Institute, HawkWatch Intl. and the U.S. Forest Service, you can witness this peak migration phenomenon! Sign up for our overnight excursion to see an amazing avian spectacle, learn about raptor biology, and hone your identification skills so you can assist researchers as they count passing hawks.

🌟 CALL TO REGISTER before noon this Thursday: 360-854-2599

Learn more about the excursion at ncascades.org/classes

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