Return of Winter
After a month without snowfall and bare ground at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, it appeared our snow days had ended for the winter season and …
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Exploring the Winter Forest
So far, winter in the North Cascades has brought us snow, rain, more snow, and until this week, several weeks of consistent rainfall. For now, the majority …
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Adventures in My New Home
Though I was born in San Diego, California it doesn’t feel like home. For the last eight years I have lived and traveled in Japan and Chile. …
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Tracking Bob
During my winter break back in the Midwest, I decided to visit a family place near a lake in northern Michigan for a few days for some …
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Snow at the Learning Center
This week has brought the first significant snowfall to the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center. Sitting at a relatively low ~1,200 feet in the range, the Learning …
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Exploring Winter's Arrival
When I awoke the other morning to see a forest of snow-covered trees, I felt just as excited when I made the same discovery as a child …
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Crossing a bobcat's path
It is nearing the end of February, and yet, while spring is shouting out with buds blossoming and fair weather, I find myself craving the cold of …
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Venturing south for a snowshoe
December 21st, the official start of winter, has just only recently passed. Though it may be only a calendar date to some, in Washington’s Cascades, winter’s arrival …
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Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail
Move over United States Postal Service, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the graduate program from connecting with this place. Alumni and current …
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A moment of snow
Each footstep crunching beneath the layers of newly fallen leaves has now transitioned to the soft silence of detritus, and of snow. Autumn’s transition to winter has …
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