In the early morning hours of a chilly October day, Adam Brayton and Christine Sanderson, students with the North Cascades Institute’s Graduate M. Ed program, awoke to …
Read More of An Increasing Presence: Moose of the North Cascades
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the formation of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex, a sprawling reserve that includes North Cascades National Park and …
Read More of North Cascades Love: Highlighting the 50th Anniversary Photo Contest
At the Institute, the graduate students of the 15th cohort (C15) have been hard at work this past year teaching Mountain School, assisting in adult programs and visiting …
Read More of Springing into Learning: Graduate Spring Natural History Retreat
The East side is burning. A certain degree of compartmentalization is required to brush away images of treasured places in flames, wildlife fleeing for their lives, and homes …
Read More of Prometheus in Paradise: Fires in the Methow Valley bring loss but reveal a committed community
Terror surged silently through my viscera as I watched the swirling inferno twist red and merciless up the talus in the smoke-blackened darkness of night. Trapped on …
Read More of The Gifts of Prometheus : the natural and social dimensions of fire ecology
I’ve spent two weeks at North Cascades Institute now, and I’m starting to feel like a member of the pack. But it took a while. I was …
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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
North Cascades Highway is nearly open. The snowmobiles are put away, the traps are closed for the season and the wolverine crew has moved on to other …
Read More of The magic of wolverine tracking
You would think it wouldn’t work. First of all, the wolverine is an elusive creature. It inhabits the untrammeled heights of mountain ranges and is rarely seen …
Read More of Capturing the Cascades wolverine
“Eyes on the side like to hide. Eyes on the front like to hunt.” With rhymes like these, we begin to introduce students to the energy relationships …
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