a poem for these times
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, …
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Life After Glaciation: Upper Skagit River Bull Trout
Driving east on Highway 20, in route to my first day of class at the North Cascades Institute, I remember being struck by the wide valley narrowing …
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Follow The River: An interview with Saul Weisberg
Saul Weisberg remembers when it hit him. In the early 1980s, he and two friends were on a climbing trip in the Pickets, a notoriously hard-to-reach chain …
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Reflections of Diobsud Creek
Story and art by Alexei Desmarais, graduate student in the Institute’s 16th cohort. What is natural history? Why do we engage in this practice? And what can …
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North Cascades Institute in The Guardian
Call of the wild: can America’s national parks survive? America’s national parks are facing multiple threats, despite being central to the frontier nation’s sense of itself by …
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30 Year Anniversary: A Look Back at 2016
As today marks the last day of 2016, what better place than Chattermarks to look back at the memories and highlights of the year here at the …
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Outline of a Hollow Bird: Poems by Evan Holmstrom
As is evidenced by the rich cadre of writers who have found inspiration in the North Cascades, this region is almost eerily conducive to writing. Maybe it’s …
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The Cold
Snow finally arrived to Environmental Learning Center (December 4th to be exact) and the days since have been crisp and cold, transforming the landscape around us. The sunny, clear …
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NCI Weekly Photo Roundup: December 4 2016
Sunrise on Pyramid Peak, taken from the Environmental Learning Center parking lot. Photo by Angela Burlile Every Sunday I will be posting photos collected from various NCI …
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The Poetry of Extinction : Holly Hughes' "Passings"
Come down to Village Books in Bellingham on May 22 at 4 pm for a free reading by Holly J Hughes from her new collection of poetry Passings.
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