Since time immemorial, the Skagit River has been a life-giving watershed for countless organisms that live in and along the banks of its milky-blue waters. The river’s …
Read More of Donut Hole: Threats to the Skagit Loom North of the Border
Far up the Skagit River, the Confluence property, a plot of land where Diobsud Creek and the river meet, sees extremes of weather and seasonal change. The …
Read More of Seasonal Changes on the Confluence: A Year in the North Cascades
Well the cold weather is officially here in the North Cascades. Washington Pass has closed for the year, and the mountains are shimmering with the beginning of …
Read More of November Photo Round-Up!
Recently, graduate student Marissa Bluestein became a volunteer at Rockport State Park. She also earned her Junior Ranger badge and learned about old growth forest ecology. Below …
Read More of You’re Never Too Old to be a Junior Ranger
Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program is a year-round educational program that engages young people ages 5 to 18 from two Skagit Valley neighborhoods in a series …
Read More of Kulshan Creek Field Trip: The Search for Salmon at Cumberland Creek
January can be warm on the lower Skagit and this late January Saturday was no exception. As Becky Moore, Alexei Desmarais and I arrived at the Howard …
Read More of Time Along the Skagit: Eagle Watching With Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program and Latino Outdoors
By Aly Gourd, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Imagine a world that makes sense. Mentally erase all of the tangled lines on the old, industrial-age …
Read More of Mapping a Sense of Place
As part of our Foodshed initiative, North Cascades Institute strives to deliver the highest quality meals for all participants at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center because …
Read More of Catching Alaskan salmon for the Learning Center
By Ginna Malley Campos, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. Long, long ago, when ice and snow covered the land as far as the eye could …
Read More of Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata): A story…
North Cascades Institute hosted a class called Sit, Walk, Write: Nature and the Practice of Presence. Participants began their days with a sitting meditation, followed by writing …
Read More of The Practice of Presence: Responding to Inner & Outer Landscapes Field Notes and Poems (Part Two)
