Institute staff Tracy Johannessen and Saul Weisberg flank author Richard Louv and REI CEO Sally Jewell in Seattle, 2007. Jewell was recently confirmed as Secretary of the Interior in the Obama Administration, which could be great news for the movement to get kids outdoors, aka “No Child Left Inside”!
Rick Bass teaching at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, 2009.
North Cascades Institute hosted a wonderful weekend in the San Juan Islands aboard the Orion, visiting Yellow Island at peak wildflower bloom. Photo by Jess Newley.
“The Passing of the Paddle” — cohort 11 on their way out, cohort 12 on their way up! Photo by Andrew Pringle, NPS.
View and download our free calendar of 2013 programs at http://bit.ly/10tJwyU. “Sourdough Mountain” painting by Skagit artist Becky Fletcher!
Wolverine in the Skagit?! Read all about it on our blog at http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/wolverine-in-the-skagit/
Clearing the North Cascades Highway! Photos by WSDOT.
From the vaults: North Cascades Institute’s Nature Writing Retreat at Sun Mountain Lodge with Bill Dietrich, Robert Michael Pyle, Anne Zwinger and Tim McNulty. Circa 2000.
North and South Twin Sisters, 3/3/13. By John Scurlock.
Poet and former North Cascades fire lookout Gary Snyder, with North Cascades Institute executive director Saul Weisberg, on stage at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall in 2009. Audio of Snyder’s reading available at http://podcastcafe.org/radiofreefundi/files/garysnyder-seattle09.html
David Moskowitz, wildlife tracker, photographer and author of “Wolves in the Land of Salmon”. Moskowitz is the Institute’s March Sourdough Speaker at the Learning Center (http://ncascades.org/signup/programs/wolves-in-the-land-of-salmon) and leading a tracking class in the Upper Skagit Valley on March 24 (http://ncascades.org/signup/programs/tracking-the-elusive-2013).
Photo by Emily Gibson
Hozomeen, on the US-Canadian border in the North Cascades, 1/25/13. Photo by John Scurlock: http://www.pbase.com/nolock.
Snow Geese of the lower Skagit Valley. Photos by Institute M.Ed graduate student Jess Newley: http://jessicanewley.com.
Winter birds of Cascadia. Photos by Jess Newley. Join the Institute and Libby Mills February 2 for our “Birding the Skagit Flats” field excursion: http://ncascades.org/signup/programs/birding-the-lower-skagit-2013.
After skinning six hours up the northern face of Ruby Mountain on Wednesday, North Cascades Institute Grad Program Coordinator Stephanie Bennett reached the summit and was met by breathtaking views of the North Cascades and Ross Lake. (It took more than two hours to ski back down!)
