North Cascades Institute

Nov 22, 2016NCI Creative Resident

Guest post by Lauren Danner, historian and writer. The North Cascades have been the focus of Lauren Danner’s research and writing for more than 15 years. While …
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Nov 17, 2016Institute Graduate Student

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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Jun 29, 2016North Cascades Institute

1. Canoe the Skagit River The Skagit is one of the great rivers of the west, supplying nearly 40 percent of the fresh water and wild salmon …
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Jun 22, 2016Special Guest

By Manasseh Franklin For much of the lower 48 states, it’s easy to consider glaciers as distant, sometimes extraordinarily so. A great deal of my research and …
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Jan 14, 2016Ben Kusserow

Over the last two centuries human expansion has halted and almost destroyed natural habitat for many species across America. In recent time there has been multiple efforts …
Read More of Rewilding Cascadia: Return of the grizzly, wolves and fisher in the North Cascades

Nov 7, 2015Special Guest

“August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer” Poem by Gary Snyder from The Back Country; a reading by Rob Rich You hitched a thousand miles north …
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Oct 31, 2015Special Guest

“Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout” Poem by Tim McNulty; a reading with Rob Rich A late-summer sun threads the needles of McMillan Spires and disappears in a reef of …
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Oct 26, 2015Mike Cuseo

With the near extermination of the grizzly came a tremendous loss to the ecosystem. Grizzlies play an important role in the natural environment as pollinators, seed dispersers, …
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Oct 11, 2015Christian Martin

What do you do if you are a young midwestern college graduate with a degree in geology and a yearning for adventure, wilderness and outdoor work in …
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Apr 20, 2015Special Guest

Guest post by Matt Dolge My morning started off at 4:30am on August 9th, 2014 with a 3-hour solo drive to Ross Lake in the North Cascades. I …
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