Trying out twig tracking
At the Environmental Learning Center, the weather this week hints almost of spring. It is tempting to get swept away from the season at hand into those …
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The Wilderness Warrior
The days are getting longer, but slowly, and there are still plenty of dark, rainy evenings this winter for reading. If, as a member of the Institute …
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Watching winged friends
When the crops of the Skagit farmlands are put to rest for winter, they come. With the sky’s gray backdrop so common to a winter in western …
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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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A saunter up Stetattle Creek
Tell me about a path less traveled and I will take it. In the North Cascades National Park, there is such a plethora of paths to choose …
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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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Fall skiing on Marmot Ridge
Fresh snow on Mt. Baker, night time lows near 20 degrees in the mountains, and forecasts calling for snow below 3,000 feet; we had to go skiing.
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Tracking the Puma concolor
Puma, Mountain Lion, Cougar…regardless of nomenclature this incredible animal is synonymous with elusive. Many could spend a lifetime in cougar habitat and never glimpse even a sign …
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Finding peace
PEACE- “It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of …
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Middens abound
I went exploring last week, just to see what I could discover on a cold winter day in February. What I found was abundant evidence of one …
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