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Videos
2009 Parks Climate Challenge
This summer, 19 high school students from five cities spent a month in the North Cascades. They hiked to glaciers, swam with bull trout, dodged thunderstorms and witnessed the impacts of climate change. The group then visited Washington, DC and completed service projects in their home communities. View the story in three parts.
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Family Getaways
From canoeing and hiking adventures, to bat-watching, bunkbeds and campfires, North Cascades Institute's Family Getaways provide a unique three-day opportunity for families of all shapes and sizes to gather in the North Cascades.
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Mountain School
Mountain School is a nationally recognized environmental education program offered by North Cascades Institute in cooperation with North Cascades National Park. This short video was produced by Omar Garcia and Michelle Tamez in the fall of 2008.
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Girls on Ice
Girls on Ice is a unique eleven-day leadership program for teenage girls that combines leadership, mountaineering and science. Northwest Cable News interviewed two 2007 participants about their time among glaciers.
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Photo Galleries
Parks Climate Challenge 2009
This summer, 19 high school students from five cities spent a month in the North Cascades. They hiked to glaciers, swam with bull trout, dodged thunderstorms and witnessed the impacts of climate change first-hand. The group was also introduced to documentary storytelling and given an audio recorder and two cameras to chronicle the experience.
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Abby Hill's Legacy of Art and Conservation
Lured by a marketing campaign promoting the Northwest's epic landscapes and mountain scenery, artist Abby Williams Hill arrived in Washington about the time the remote territory became a state. View a slideshow compiled by Elisabeth Keating. |
Costa Rica 2007
For years, we've greeted the songbirds in the Skagit Valley and North Cascades as they make their way north for summer breeding. This spring, we're heading south to see them in their winter habitat and to gain a better understanding of the larger natural-history story of these neotropical migrants. View a gallery of photographs from last year's trip. |
The Learning Center
Take a tour of North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, the Institute's new field campus in North Cascades National Park. The Learning Center is a hub of discovery for all ages in one of the wildest, most biologically diverse landscapes in North America. |
The Owl and the Woodpecker
Photographer Paul Bannick's new book, The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America's Most Iconic Birds, profiles all 41 species of owls and woodpeckers across 11 key habitats and provides an inside look at the intertwined stories of these cavity-dwellers. This gallery features 10 images from the book. |
Over the North Cascades
Photographer John Scurlock documents the North Cascades's jumbled sea of peaks in the form of hundreds of amazing aerial photographs. Here's a gallery of some of his recent work.
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North Cascades Wild
North Cascades Wild is a 12-day canoe camping and backpacking program exploring Ross Lake in North Cascades National Park. Underserved high school students complete conservation service projects for the Park Service while learning leadership, community building and the natural history of the region. View photos from last summer's programs. |
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