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		<title>North Cascades VIPs: Highlighting Institute Superstars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by guest contributor Deb Martin, the North Cascades Institute Registrar. Happy New Year! As our Silver Anniversary comes to an end, we want to move forward in our 26th year by recognizing the strong connections we have with our participants and partners. We would not be where we are or who we are today without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Institute video! &#8220;The High Ridge: Celebrating 25 Years in the North Cascades&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/new-institute-video-the-high-ridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[25th anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute is very excited to finally share with you a multimedia piece made in celebration of our 25th anniversary. &#8220;The High Ridge: Celebrating 25 Years in the North Cascades&#8221; was created by three staff members from our marketing/communications department &#8212; Christian Martin, Jessica Haag and Amy Wilcox &#8212; in partnership with Benj Drummond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Shopping for the Environmental Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/thanksgiving-shopping-for-the-environmental-learning-center/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/thanksgiving-shopping-for-the-environmental-learning-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelby Slater</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[We are excited to publish the second piece in our Foodshed Series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs working so hard to provide program participants and staff at the Environmental Learning Center with sustainable, seasonal, and deliciously fresh food. In an age where the production and consumption of food are heavily disconnected, we work hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recounting the 2nd Annual Youth Leadership Conference</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/recounting-the-2nd-annual-youth-leadership-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/recounting-the-2nd-annual-youth-leadership-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mollie Behn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Warren G. Bennis once said, &#8220;Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.&#8221; Sixty-three high school and college students and fourteen conservation organizations did just that November 11-13th for the second annual North Cascades Youth Leadership Conference. Brought together by common goals to improve their leadership skills, learn about future opportunities, and reconnect after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Vignettes from the Institute</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/fall-vignettes-from-the-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/fall-vignettes-from-the-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[decomposition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fall colors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People experience the seasonal transformations of the natural world in a myriad of ways. Each of us may recognize subtleties taking hold of a landscape in times of change that others will miss completely because they have learned to pay attention to different details. Amidst downpours of rain in the lowlands and dustings of snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watercolors in the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/watercolors-in-the-north-cascades/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/watercolors-in-the-north-cascades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adult Programs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this October, Seattle artist and North Cascades Institute friend Molly Hashimoto led a wonderful and successful workshop on watercolor painting in nature at the Environmental Learning Center. Each day, Molly led students through exercises that developed tangible skills and techniques with the aim of guiding individuals towards their own unique artistic expressions. Molly and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See the wild side with new North Cascades tours</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/north-cascades-expeditions/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/north-cascades-expeditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hydropower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle City Light&#8217;s Skagit Tours has added a guided van-and-hiking day tour of its Skagit hydroelectric project and nearby falls, gorges and viewpoints of the North Cascades. Photo by Jessica Haag. &#160; By Mike McQuaide Originally published in The Seattle Times, August 3, 2011 Atop Diablo Dam, in the heart of the North Cascades, Sara [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cascades Butterfly Project: Citizen Scientists Unite!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/the-cascades-butterfly-project-citizen-scientists-unite/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/the-cascades-butterfly-project-citizen-scientists-unite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butterflies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 23rd, a group of volunteer scientists joined biologists from the North Cascades Institute, North Cascades National Park and Western Washington University to say farewell to &#8220;the winter that would never end&#8221; by kicking off the Cascades Butterfly Project. The Cascades Butterfly Project is a collaborative effort between biologists and citizen scientists, who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25th Anniversary posters for sale</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/anniversary-posters-for-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/anniversary-posters-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[25th anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to offer a special limited-edition poster commemorating North Cascades Institute&#8217;s 25th anniversary. This high-quality poster features a new painting by watercolor artist Molly Hashimoto, who also is the featured artist on our catalog this year and is teaching two workshops at the Learning Center. Her piece depicts an iconic view from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institute recognized with NPS award</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/institute-recognized-with-nps-award/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/institute-recognized-with-nps-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chip Jenkins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kurt Repanshek, originally published in National Parks Traveler July 7, 2011. For a quarter-century the North Cascades Institute has been working in partnership with the National Park Service to educate the public on the wonders of North Cascades National Park and its surrounding ecosystem. Those 25 years haven&#8217;t been overlooked by the Park Service, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Youth Preparation Begins!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/summer-youth-prep/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/summer-youth-prep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mountain School is not yet over but the summer youth program team is already pulling big shifts and long hours in preparation for the arrival of the Cascade Climate Challenge and North Cascades Wild students. Countless calories must be packed and cached, payloads of gear have to be inventoried, cleaned and organized and mounds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Louv &amp; the Nature Principle</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/richard-louv-nature-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/richard-louv-nature-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please join North Cascades Institute and REI as we present Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and co-founder of the Children &#38; Nature Network, Thursday, May 12; 7 p.m. at Town Hall, Seattle and Friday, May 13; 7 p.m. at Sehome High School, Bellingham. Tickets available online or at the door; information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The merry (and busy!) month of May</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-merry-month-of-may/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-merry-month-of-may/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, our 25th anniversary year really starts hopping with a wide range of public events, field excursions, readings, open houses and the first family getaway of 2011. Here&#8217;s a round-up of what we&#8217;re doing &#8212; read on and see how you can plug in. May 6: Book release party for Ana Maria Spagna&#8217;s Potluck: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ana Maria Spagna&#8217;s &#8220;Spawning in the Mud&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/ana-maria-spagnas-spawning-in-the-mud/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/ana-maria-spagnas-spawning-in-the-mud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: The following is an excerpt from Institute writing instructor Ana Maria Spagna&#8217;s new collection of essays Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness. Join us at Mount Vernon&#8217;s Libation Station on May 6 for a free reading and author reception &#8212; more information on this and other readings in Seattle, Concrete, Darrington and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institute Receives USFS Conservation Award</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/conservation-award/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/conservation-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have dreamed that a national forest, a housing non-profit and an environmental education organization would team up to provide Seattle-based Asian and Pacific Islanders with meaningful outdoor experiences? Starting in 2001, the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, the North Cascades Institute and the International District Housing Alliance began a partnership that has expanded over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring in the Smokies</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/spring-in-the-smokies/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/spring-in-the-smokies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to join Megan McGinty, North Cascades Institutes&#8217; Climate Challenge Program Coordinator, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a meeting with representatives from several other environmental learning centers that will all be offering trainings this summer on how to teach climate change in the classroom. The meeting was hosted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 programs open for registration &#8211; sign up by spring equinox and save!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/2011-programs-open-for-registratio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of our 25th year of connecting people to nature through hands-on experiences in the outdoors, North Cascades Institute has opened over 50 new programs for registration, ranging from natural history classes focused on birds, butterflies and bugs to family camps, art and writing retreats and backcountry adventures in North Cascades National Park. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 youth programs : now accepting applications!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/2011-summer-youth-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/2011-summer-youth-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year when North Cascades Institute is gearing up for another year of exciting programs for youth and we&#8217;re actively recruiting students to be a part of North Cascades Wild, Cascades Climate Challenge and Mountain School in 2011. Please help us spread the word to parents and teachers about these amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Hozomeen</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/hozomeen/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/hozomeen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near Ross Lake reservoir in North Cascades National Park stands Hozomeenâ€”a steep, jagged mountain that is the source of a locally abundant and distinctive tool stone, Hozomeen chert. This stone is found exclusively in the North Cascades range of Washington and British Columbia and was used by indigenous peoples. National Park Archaeologist Bob Mierendorf has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Cascades Institute : from concept to 25 years</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/from-concept-to-25-years/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/from-concept-to-25-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[25th anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2011, North Cascades Institute will begin its 25th year conserving and restoring Northwest environments through education. In the winter issue of Adventures NW, Bellingham-based writer and photographer John D&#8217;Onofrio tells the story of theÂ Institute&#8217;s inception and ofÂ its co-founder andÂ executive director, Saul Weisberg. Hereâ€™s a secret: Saul Weisberg is changing the world. Saul is [...]]]></description>
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