On March 31, North Cascade Institute Graduate M.Ed. student Gina Roberti had the wonderful opportunity to attend a presentation by Roger Christophersen, biologist for North Cascades National …
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By Tyler Davis, graduate student of the Institute’s 15th cohort. Wolverines are elusive creatures that are primarily found in the far reaches of wilderness areas. These animals …
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By Joe Loviska, Graduate Phenology Assistant Phenology is the study of how plants, animals, and other biotic organisms change with the cycle of the seasons. As the graduate …
Read More of Fall Count: Environmental Learning Center Observations from September through November
One of the highlights of this my time in this graduate program so far (seven months!) has been our seasonal natural history retreats. In the fall, Cohort 14 …
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Exciting news from our friends at North Cascades National Park: Look at the paws on this guy! Last summer, a visitor reported … that they had seen …
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Doug Chadwick, a renowned writer of natural history based in Whitefish, Montana, is our first fall speaker in the 5th annual Sourdough Speaker Series at the North …
Read More of The Wolverine Way: An Interview with Doug Chadwick
North Cascades Highway is nearly open. The snowmobiles are put away, the traps are closed for the season and the wolverine crew has moved on to other …
Read More of The magic of wolverine tracking
You would think it wouldn’t work. First of all, the wolverine is an elusive creature. It inhabits the untrammeled heights of mountain ranges and is rarely seen …
Read More of Capturing the Cascades wolverine
It is the radio call we’ve been waiting for all season. Adam and I linger beside the truck, waiting to unload a couple of snowmobiles and get …
Read More of Encounters of a wolverine kind