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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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📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux, Nooksack & Coast Salish people

Calling all culinary creatives who enjoy preparing

Calling all culinary creatives who enjoy preparing scratch-made meals using local, organic ingredients—and who want to work in the North Cascades National Park complex! The Institute is seeking applicants for LEAD COOK and SOUS CHEF for our food service at Environmental Learning Center on the shores of Lake Diablo.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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By serving up tasty meals for program visitors on campus, this position supports our wide array of environmental educational initiatives. If you have the skills and want to use them in support of a good cause, go to ncascades.org/careers.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📍The North Cascades Environmental Learning Center is situated on the ancestral homelands of the Upper Skagit, Nlaka’pamux, Sauk-Suiattle and Swinomish peoples

Watch closely! It’s that time of year for more t

Watch closely! It’s that time of year for more than half of the Salish Sea’s Chinook salmon—the Skagit is their home river and thousands are returning to spawn this fall. At the Institute’s staff house, set at the confluence of the Skagit River and Diobsud Creek, we’re able to witness the event up close.

Diobsud Creek features essential spawning habitat for the Skagit River’s struggling salmon populations. Last December, in partnership with @skagitlandtrust we placed 5.8 acres of our property—including 1,150 feet of both shorelines—in a conservation easement to ensure it remains undeveloped forever, protecting these waterways critical for salmon.

We have also worked with Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group, City Light, and Upper Skagit Indian Tribe on habitat improvements like planting trees and creating in-stream structures for spawning salmon. Learn more about the conservation easement at blog.ncascades.org.

📸: Kate Little

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

PLEASE SHARE: Do you or anyone you know have a pas

PLEASE SHARE: Do you or anyone you know have a passion for both nature and technology? North Cascades Institute is hiring a SALESFORCE & WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR to manage our database and website.

This is a great opportunity for someone with Salesforce and website management skills, and the desire to help people connect with nature while using technology to do so.

Work remotely and on-site at North Cascades Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake and our Sedro-Woolley office. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: Nov. 12, 2021

Put a bird on it. 🦆 During the winter months

Put a bird on it.

🦆 During the winter months tens of thousands of snow geese, trumpeter swans and waterfowl grace the skies and fields of the Skagit Valley.

🦆 Skagit Valley farmland provides food and habitat for approximately 10,000 trumpeter and tundra swans, 100,000 snow geese and thousands more mallards and other ducks.

🦆 As well as providing food and habitat for migrating birds, Skagit Valley farmland provides sustainable and locally grown food for programs held at the Environmental Learning Center.

📸 : @ejbroughton
📍Ancestral homelands of the Skagit, Swinomish, Coast Salish & Stillaguamish people

Online, Nov 3: DIVERSITY IN THE OUTDOORS—A Conve

Online, Nov 3: DIVERSITY IN THE OUTDOORS—A Conversation with Chevon Powell

The outdoor scene offers the opportunity for all people to connect with our shared earthly home. However, the conservation and recreation fields have been disproportionately shaped by white figures, and the trail has not always been a welcoming place for diverse people. Despite that history, Black, Indigenous, and people of color have always been out on the trail. We’re now seeing a welcome increase in participation, as well as overlapping conversations about social justice and outdoor recreation that help grow a diverse and just outdoor scene.

Please join us in welcoming Chevon Powell, founder of Golden Bricks Events and Refuge Outdoor Festival. Chevon is an event professional and community advocate for outdoor access and environmental justice. She will be sharing her own story and facilitating a thought-provoking and inspiring conversation around building diversity in the outdoors. Please join us!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Birdability week 2021!! Empowering exploration: Go

Birdability week 2021!! Empowering exploration: Going birding with an access challenge panel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Curious? Join birders – and potential future birders – with disabilities and other health concerns as the panel discusses their approach to adventure and exploration. What do you think about when planning a birding trip? How do you tackle obstacles, and what happens when something goes wrong? How can you frame your birding exploits to be a tool of empowerment, rather than seeing barriers at every turn? Hope you’ll come away with a new approach to birding!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Next up in our NATURE OF WRITING SPEAKER SERIES, w

Next up in our NATURE OF WRITING SPEAKER SERIES, we welcome Thor Hanson back to talk about his latest book!

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving, and sometimes dying out. Anole lizards have grown larger toe pads, to grip more tightly in hurricanes. Warm waters cause Humboldt squid to alter so dramatically they're mistaken for different species. When coral reefs sicken, aggressive butterfly fish transform into pacifists with no territory worth fighting for.

A story of hope, resilience, and risk, Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is a reminder of how unpredictable climate change is as it interacts with the lattice of life.

📚THURSDAY, OCT 21: Thor Hanson interviewed by North Cascades Institute’s Christian Martin at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center in Fairhaven

📚PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED at ncascades.org/events

The weather was spectacular for our floating field

The weather was spectacular for our floating field course BIRDING THE SALISH SEA with instructor Amanda Colbert. We set out to observe the feathered affiliates of the Salish Sea biotic community and were treated to gulls, turkey vultures, a harlequin duck, some black turnstones, several loons, and more. A valuable discussion with the group on the topic of the Salish Sea broadened our understanding of the ecological, economic, and social intricacies of this bioregion.

Friends and followers are encouraged to investigate @seadocsociety on the topic of Salish Sea as well as the educational programs of @thesalishseaschool.

📸: Evan Holmstrom (1, 3, 5); Nancy Schilling (2,6); Bob Turner (4)

📍Ancestral homewaters of the Coast Salish, Lummi, Semiahmoo, Samish peoples and others

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