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Sharing the Experience: Creative Resident Recognized in 2018 Photo Contest

Sharing the Experience: Creative Resident Recognized in 2018 Photo Contest

Feb 15, 2019Matt Ferrell

In pursuing our mission to inspire and empower environmental stewardship for all through transformative experiences in nature the North Cascades Institute boasts a wide range of programs aimed …
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Goodbye Saul, Hello Bec!
The Search for the Perfect Trail Bar
Land Acknowledgements: Why and How Are Nature Centers Using Them?
“So Long, Saul” Online Retirement Celebration
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🔥🏠 There are currently 93 fire lookouts in W

🔥🏠 There are currently 93 fire lookouts in Washington still standing in their officially used locations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🔥🏠 3 lookouts are located in North Cascades National Park⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🔥🏠 2 of those lookouts were seasonal homes poet/writers Gary Snyder & Jack Kerouac, where they crafted some of their iconic works⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Can you name any or all of the fire lookouts in the park?
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📸: @sarina_pizzala

We are BACK, we are EXCITED, and we are OUTDOORS!

We are BACK, we are EXCITED, and we are OUTDOORS! This summer’s first round of Youth Leadership Adventures has been a huge success, with 24 students completing 8-day hiking and canoe-camping trips in the North Cascades backcountry. We have 17 more students gearing up to leave TODAY and a final group heading out in August.

A HUGE shout out to our instructors Jen, Eric, Hannah, Emily, Iman, and Sam and our amazing YLA leadership team of Julie, Elle, and Mia who have been working for months to ensure the gear, routes, safety plans, and food are all in place for participants to have an amazing adventure.

THANK YOU for your support of this program. Together we are helping young people discover and build their leadership strengths, create inclusive communities, and identify pathways to a sustainable vision for the future.

Learn more about this program at www.ncascades.org/youth.

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

🌻 July 26-31 is #BlackBotanistsWeek2021⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌻 Black botanists week is a social movement inspired by Black birders week to showcase and amplify hidden faces and voices of Black people who share a love for plants and nature and/or work with plants ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🌻 Black botanists week aims to inspire and encourage better representation of all botanists from diverse fields and knowledge foundations⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📸: @blackbotanistsweek

After their SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TRAIL BAR to in

After their SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TRAIL BAR to include in Institute program snack packs, our kitchen team has found the magic combination of tasty ingredients. And they're sharing it with you!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These toothsome treats are filled with healthful, wholesome fruits and seeds to power you up the trail: dried dates, apples and cranberries; chia, sunflower and hemp seeds; agave nectar, sunbutter, and toasted oats.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Visit blog.ncascades.org to get the RECIPE and the full story of its creation.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📸: Head Chef Dan Bullard

After 14 years serving as the Director of the Nort

After 14 years serving as the Director of the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, it's time for Kristofer Gilje to move on to his next adventure. He will retire in October to spend more time with his family in Bellingham. What Kristofer has brought to Learning Center operations and risk management, to program development and staff support, and to the overall well-being, stability and professionalism of our organization is beyond measure. We'll be sharing more of our appreciation over the months to come. Feel free to share your reflections and favorite Kristofer stories in the comments!

"I have had the privilege of working with scores of wonderful people, staff and graduate students, over the years. I have learned something from every one of these individuals. The combination of all of us, together with all those who came before us, have enabled this organization to remain relevant and uniquely equipped to meet our mission." -- KG

And so a new chapter begins as we begin the search for the next Learning Center Director... help us spread the word: https://ncascades.org/jobs

More so than most cities, Seattle has shaped itsel

More so than most cities, Seattle has shaped itself to suit its needs—removing hills, filling tide flats, and creating a completely new downtown shoreline. Residents and visitors in today’s Seattle would barely recognize the landscape as it was before settlers arrived. As the city grew, leaders and inhabitants dramatically altered the topography to accommodate their changing visions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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On Sept. 9, we'll take a virtual walk with David Williams to explore the last vestiges of the former downtown bluffs, trace the island where Seattle began, and examine how the subterranean fill still affects the modern landscape. He will also illuminate the physical challenges and sometimes startling hubris of these large-scale transformations, from the filling in of the Duwamish tideflats to the massive regrading project that pared down Denny Hill.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This talk is based on David's award-winning book, Too High and Too Steep.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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SECRETS OF SEATTLE'S HISTORIC SHORELINE, Sept 9 at 7 PM.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Visit ncascades.org/classes for more info and to sign up.

It’s Friday! What adventures are you going on th

It’s Friday! What adventures are you going on this weekend?! 🏔🧗‍♀️🛶🥾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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📍Ancestral homelands of the Nlaka’pamux & Sauk-Suiattle people

🐝 Everyone should BEE aware that we have an exc

🐝 Everyone should BEE aware that we have an exciting Northwest Pollinator Diversity class on August 7 and it’s getting quite the BUZZ!

🌹 Time will FLY during this day-long workshop, taught by entomologist Dr. Bob Gillespie, which takes place at WSU’s Northwest Research and Extension Center in Mount Vernon, WA. This convenient location features 10 acres of research and educational gardens including an apiary and a pollinator garden!
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🦋 Participants will learn how to capture pollinators using a net and transfer them to a vial for identification! They’ll also have the unique opportunity to check out Bob’s legendary pinned pollinator collection and BUG him with all of their insect-related questions 🐞
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🌻 Please don’t pause to smell the flowers—Sign up today at ncascades.org/classes or call (360) 854-2599.

📸: NCI graduate program alumni @wingtrip

🛶 Now that Saul Weisberg has officially passed

🛶 Now that Saul Weisberg has officially passed the paddle to Bec Detrich as North Cascades Institute’s executive director, what does the future hold for the Institute? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Well if you’re curious, Whatcom Talk recently had a chance to chat with Bec and Saul about leadership changes, historical challenges, and future plans 🎙 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As Bec stated, “my hope is for every person in our community to connect to nature and be inspired to take action to steward our lands, water, and climate. We will continue to offer transformational programs to folks of all life stages, and I look forward to listening to and adapting to the needs of our community.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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@whatcomtalk

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