Paddles up. Uhh! Forward. Portside paddles never quite in synch. Rest. The silence of the Skagit River current carries minds and bodies gently forward. I lean to …
Read More of Sunday on The River: A Fishtown Poem
Robert Sund is our bard of the Skagit River, a singer of songs celebrating skunk cabbage, frogs, muddy water, ducks, and the rising tide. In the summer …
Read More of New Book Captures Late Northwest Poet Robert Sund's Words
Notes from Disappearing Lake: The River Journals of Robert Sund A reading by Tim McNulty May 15, 2012; 7 pm Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th Street, …
Read More of Special event: Tim McNulty reads Robert Sund, Bellingham 5/15
Written by Special Guest Blogger Elisabeth Keating. On a cool Thursday evening in late July, a group of adventurers gather at the Environmental Learning Center for the …
Read More of Reflections on the Upper Skagit: Ross Lake by Boat and Boot
“I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner …
Read More of Swimming with the Salmon
By Ana Maria Spagna I’ve driven Washington’s Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, for years. I used live in Rockport right along the highway, and I used …
Read More of The History of Skagit Dams – Seeing Things Anew
Back row, left to right: Jacob Belsher, Elise Ehrheart, Sarah Bernstein, Mollie Behn, Susan Brown, Katie Tozier, Kiira Heymann, Erin Soper, Ashley Kvitek, Alex Patia. Front row, …
Read More of Exploring the Upper Skagit
Who would have dreamed that a national forest, a housing non-profit and an environmental education organization would team up to provide Seattle-based Asian and Pacific Islanders with …
Read More of Institute Receives USFS Conservation Award
The sheer power of water was apparent in the North Cascades this last weekend after a recent Pineapple Express hit the Northwest. Warming temperatures combined with a …
Read More of Natural Shifts in the North Cascades
Summer has finally arrived at the Environmental Learning Center! Diablo Lake has regained its characteristic green color, peregrine falcon fledglings are learning to hunt near the dam, …
Read More of Welcome graduate cohort 10!
