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Accomplishments & Reports Impact Stories Youth Programs and Scholarships Saul Weisberg Catalyst Fund Directions & visitor info Donate Get updates Blog Giving Back to our Community through Service II Apr 22, 2024 North Cascades Institute Since 2021, the Institute has provided paid service days to our staff. We encouraged everyone to use those hours to volunteer with a local nonprofit organization or government agency of their choice each year. Here are some of the creative ways that this benefit contributed to our local community, from working with animal shelters and 4H to teaching meditation classes to assisting our friends at North Cascades National Park with wildlife surveys and plant restoration. Read on to learn more about our staff’s contributions over the past year as well as about some of the amazing nonprofit groups working to make our community stronger. Read More from Giving Back to our Community through Service II” What is Cascadian Zen? Apr 12, 2024 Special Guest Essay by Adelia MacWilliam and Jason Wirth In 2023 Paul Nelson, Jason Tetsuzen Wirth and Adelia MacWilliam founded Watershed Press to support our first publications, Cascadian Zen, … Read More of What is Cascadian Zen? Poems from the Empty Bowl Cookbook Apr 1, 2024 Special Guest The sixth issue of The Madrona Project delivers a literature of sustainability. A banquet of writers and artists addresses the ways our species sustains itself with ancestral … Read More of Poems from the Empty Bowl Cookbook Spring 2024 Nature of Writing Speaker Series in Bellingham Mar 6, 2024 North Cascades Institute Presented by Village Books and North Cascades Institute Discover your next great read with this series of presentations by authors, poets, artists and naturalists sharing their latest … Read More of Spring 2024 Nature of Writing Speaker Series in Bellingham The Birth and Death of a Glacier Feb 23, 2024 Special Guest Slowly, gently, the snowflake spirals downwards. It pirouettes through the sky, first drifting this way, then another, finally coming to rest on a precarious pile of powder. Read More of The Birth and Death of a Glacier Tribute to our Departing Board Members Jan 31, 2024 North Cascades Institute I’m thankful for the opportunity to reflect on the tenure of three exceptional people who are retiring from the North Cascades Institute’s board. Dunham, Nan and Gerry … Read More of Tribute to our Departing Board Members Discover Birds of the PNW with North Cascades Institute Jan 26, 2024 North Cascades Institute We’re offering several guided birding adventures in the North Cascades, on the Salish Sea, and online this season to take you where the action is and help … Read More of Discover Birds of the PNW with North Cascades Institute Alan Alatorre-Barajas’ Environmental Education Journey Jan 17, 2024 Special Guest By Alan Alatorre-Barajas, Institute student alumni and Vamos Outdoors Project board and leadership team member Recently, I was having a conversation with a supporter of the Vamos … Read More of Alan Alatorre-Barajas’ Environmental Education Journey A Neverending Cascade of Snow Jan 4, 2024 Special Guest As the days shorten and cool mornings frost over the memories of a hot, dry summer, Washington’s reservoir begins to grow in the mountains. Most years the … Read More of A Neverending Cascade of Snow Winter 2023 Institute Photo Round-Up! Dec 26, 2023 stephanie_friesen December’s first snow may have fallen on a quiet amphitheater, but we’re busy in every corner of the Institute—literally and figuratively! Operations and Housekeeping teams are still … Read More of Winter 2023 Institute Photo Round-Up! Posts navigation 1 2 3 4 … 105 106 107 Older Blog Blog Home Naturalist Notes Life at the Learning Center Institute News Mountain School Youth Adventures Adventures Field Excursions Photography Recent Articles Giving Back to our Community through Service II What is Cascadian Zen? Poems from the Empty Bowl Cookbook Spring 2024 Nature of Writing Speaker Series in Bellingham The Birth and Death of a Glacier Enter your email to be notified when a new post is published! Follow us on Instagram ncascades Here’s some springtime magic! Who can guess this We promise it’s not a green screen! 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