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	<title>Chattermarks &#187; Life at the Learning Center</title>
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		<title>In my backyard&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/in-my-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Highway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As winter comes to an end and we transition into the spring and summer months, something really exciting happens. I&#8217;m not talking about plants flowering and birds singing and the sun coming out, although all of those things are definitely exciting. No, I&#8217;m talking about the spring opening of Highway 20. Also known as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Canoe Adventure</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/winter-canoe-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is a sunny day in January for, if not an adventure? On one such day a couple months back, I headed out in the Institute&#8217;s 14-person Voyageur canoe with some fellow graduate students, seasonal naturalists, and other friends. Our goal: to find ice on the lake. All of us in the canoe. I&#8217;m pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Reflection Brings Out The Poet</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/reflection-brings-out-the-poet/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/reflection-brings-out-the-poet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in my house, thinking, and the first few lines of a poem that I haven&#8217;t thought of in years popped into my head: &#8220;In winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candle light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.&#8221; It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Winter Photo Tour of the Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/winter-photo-tour-of-the-elc/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/winter-photo-tour-of-the-elc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=15040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to describe where I live sometimes, especially in the winter (by which I mean late November through April). Most people I know aren&#8217;t familiar with the Diablo Lake area, and even if they are, I have very few visitors in the winter so the place they remember from the summer is almost an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Instructor Exchange</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/2013-instructor-exchange/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/2013-instructor-exchange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graduate M.Ed. Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each winter, students at North Cascades Institute, Islandwood, and Wilderness Awareness School get together over three weekends, one gathering at each of our campuses, to share the similarities and differences of our programs, meet new people, and learn from each other. This year, the graduate students of North Cascades Institute hosted the first weekend over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Winter Vocabulary Lesson</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/a-winter-vocabulary-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/a-winter-vocabulary-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hibernaculum (hi-buhr-NAK-yuh-luhm) (Latin, &#8220;tent for winter quarters&#8221;) can refer to: (zoology) The location chosen by an animal for hibernation. Commonly this may be a hibernating mammal or insect. (botany) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period. This winter, I’m living in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Fresh in the New Year</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/starting-fresh-in-the-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/starting-fresh-in-the-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=14791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I hear the swish of snow-pants and the crunch of snow under my boots. These sounds drown out the silent stillness of the air. I stop for a minute, hear falling water from a creek nearby, a raven high up in a tree. I keep going. Up a hill, the snow gets deeper, I come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Natural History</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/winter-natural-history/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/winter-natural-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=14861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, graduate students at North Cascades Institute are tasked with keeping a Natural History Journal. At the end of each quarter we turn in ten selected journal entries to our professor. Having recently turned in my fall journal, natural history has been on my mind. If you&#8217;re like me, you have a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen Gratitude: Another Year in the Foodshed</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/kitchen-gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/kitchen-gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cuseo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodshed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leadership Adventures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=14710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Above two photos: (top) Sous Chef Mike Cuseo gets some help trying out a crazy ides: Oyster (mushrooms) on the Half-shell. (bottom) After the oven&#8230; Photos by Kacey Shoemaker This time of year, there&#8217;s few of us here at the Learning Center with as much to be thankful for as the kitchen staff. The whole idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Rain</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/on-rain/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/on-rain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Leading photo: Puddles building up on a trail at the Learning Center. Photo by Rick Allen.    ]]></description>
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		<title>As Fall Comes to A Close</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/as-fall-comes-to-a-close/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/as-fall-comes-to-a-close/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=14516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 17th, the first Mountain School group of the fall season arrived at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center. It was a bright, warm, cloudless, sunny day. The mountains were still snow-free and the ground was parched from the summer drought. Now, eight weeks, approximately 779 students, and more than 15 inches of rain later, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Learning Center Halloween</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/a-learning-center-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/a-learning-center-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Weisberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduate students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We know how to have fun up here in the mountains. The multitude of creatively carved pumpkins sitting on the back porch of the Dining Hall are proof of it. I didn&#8217;t have big plans for Halloween this year. I usually eat popcorn, watch scary movies (by myself, which is always a bad idea), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Wild and Kulshan Creek come together for stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/nc-wild-and-kulshan-creek-come-together-for-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/nc-wild-and-kulshan-creek-come-together-for-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Kvitek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Forest Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leadership Adventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kulshan Creek Neighborhood from Mount Vernon joined up with North Cascades Wild students on August 16th for a day of stewardship on Baker Lake. The last session of NC Wild, and my last event with the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Program this year, was an event to put in the books. Next to the three-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Stance on Food</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/taking-a-stance-on-food/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/taking-a-stance-on-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelby Slater</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodshed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viva farms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=13812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, I want to remind all of my readers that my views are just that. Mine. They do not always match up with the North Cascades Institute or anybody else’s in the world for that matter. I just like to get people thinking. I love a good healthy conversation and flowing of ideas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Company of Corvids: John Marzluff in the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/in-the-company-of-corvids/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/in-the-company-of-corvids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiira Heymann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adult Seminars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corvids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john marzluff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Pass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our &#8220;Nature of Writing&#8221; series, John Marzluff &#38; Tony Angell present Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans June 18 at 7pm in the Readings Gallery at Village Books in Bellingham; Free! This summer, the Environmental Learning Center will be buzzing with adult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/the-gift-of-mountain-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recollection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leadership Conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Mountain School has officially ended for the spring season! On Friday afternoon, Institute staff and instructors waved a bittersweet goodbye to 5th graders from Mountain View Elementary, raising their arms and voices in celebration for another great spring spent with youth in the outdoors. By way of offering a parting perspective and ode to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Printmaking Workshop at the Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/spring-printmaking-workshop-at-the-learning-center/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/spring-printmaking-workshop-at-the-learning-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:13 +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>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[molly hashimoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[printmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[watercolors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the last weekend in April, Seattle artist and North Cascades Institute friend and instructor Molly Hashimoto led a wonderful and inspiring 3-day Adult Seminar on Printmaking with Ink and Watercolor at the Environmental Learning Center. Each day, Molly shared basic printmaking techniques that helped to build tangible skills and deepen each artist&#8217;s unique and creative talents. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edible Geography: Perspectives and Practice in Foodshed Education</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/edible-geography-perspectives-and-practice-in-foodshed-education/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/edible-geography-perspectives-and-practice-in-foodshed-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Cuseo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Heron Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairhaven Mills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodshed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foodshed Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Scurlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[molly hashimoto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osprey Hill Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With an Introduction Recounting Current Happenings in the Foodshed Project [We are excited to publish the fifth piece in our Foodshed series, with monthly updates from the amazing chefs working 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Adventures at Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/april-adventures-at-mountain-school/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/april-adventures-at-mountain-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Soper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graduate M.Ed. Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=13140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The month of April began with a week of Mountain School like no other I’ve experienced in the eight months I have lived, worked, and studied at North Cascades Institute. April showers, instead of bringing May flowers, brought the opportunity to co-teach with National Park Service Ranger, Carolyn Waters. A typical trail group generally consists of 8-12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entering the Ethereal Forest</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/entering-the-ethereal-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/entering-the-ethereal-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graduate M.Ed. Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Beaver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diablo Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake National Recreation Area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Skagit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=13108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend dawned sunny and warm in the North Cascades, an unexpected delight for those of us electing to live out the winter in the solitude of the snow-capped peaks and hushed forests around the Environmental Learning Center. Although spring has reportedly been blooming down along the Skagit Valley, our world has remained snowy, [...]]]></description>
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