“Smokestorm” over Cascadia
As anyone living in the Pacific Northwest knows intimately, the past two weeks have been incredibly hazy throughout our region as smoke from wildfires burning in British …
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An Overview of the Winter Natural History Field Seminar of 2018
This week graduate students in the M.Ed Residency Program returned from their 10-day Natural History Field Seminar to the Methow Valley. After spending several sunny days in eastern Washington, we drove …
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Walking Washington's History
“Located in the most remote corner of the continental United States, hunkered below a wilderness cascading down from the mountains, early Bellingham… had ambition,” writes historian Judy …
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Grizzly Bears In the Pacific Northwest: A Natural History (Part 1)
“In late September 1967, Rocky and Lenora Wilson had packed up to Fisher Basin, one of their favorite places, for the ‘high hunt.’ During twilight hours, a …
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Facing Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
North Cascades Institute former staffers and current friends Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele just launched four new films for their multimedia project, Facing Climate Change. Oyster Farmers, Coastal …
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Painting a Washington spring portrait
All over Washington, the earth is reawakening. Can you see it? In a period of only a few weeks, spring has come – a monumental paintbrush caressing …
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The festive nature of food
‘Tis the season of tradition, of woodstove warmth and food made fresh from the comforts of the kitchen. It is the season of giving thanks, of gathering …
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