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		<title>New Institute video! &#8220;The High Ridge: Celebrating 25 Years in the North Cascades&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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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>Sharing My Love of the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/sharing-my-love-of-the-north-cascades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by former NC Wild Student and Remarkable Young Leader, Kassandra Barnedt The North Cascades &#8211; untouched, wild, remarkable, friendship, beauty, but most importantly life changing. Every trip to this mystical place is unique, but somehow these trips bring each one of us back to the same place. My journey with the North Cascades National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow &amp; Spire: Flights to Winter in the North Cascade Range</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/scurlocks-snow-spire/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/adventures/scurlocks-snow-spire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Scurlock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVENT INFO: Join North Cascades Institute for a book release celebration for John Scurlock&#8217;s Snow &#38; Spire: Flights to Winter in the North Cascade Range. November 30, 2011 7-9 pm. Skagit Station Meeting Room, 105 E. Kincaid St, Mt Vernon. Free! John Scurlock makes his living working as a paramedic for the Bellingham Fire Department, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock On, Gerry!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/rock-on-gerry/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/rock-on-gerry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire lookouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPS Mule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerry Cook caps 44 years of service with the US National Park Service with a beautiful retirement party at Eagle Haven winery Story by special guest Elisabeth Keating. On a sparkling October evening at a winery in the foothills of the North Cascades, over 300 friends and family members gathered to celebrate Gerry Cook&#8217;s 44 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-pacific-crest-trailside-reader/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-pacific-crest-trailside-reader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Crest Trailside Reader series Co-Editor Rees Hughes will be doing a reading from his new book Saturday,Â November 12 beginning at 7 p.m. at Village Books in downtown Fairhaven. Exploring the people, places, and history of the Pacific Crest Trail as it ranges 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada, The Pacific Crest Trailside Readers bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain Gerry Cook&#8217;s message of hope</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/captain-gerry-cooks-message-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/captain-gerry-cooks-message-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth P</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday August 21st was the last Mule trip for the 2011 season of North Cascades Wild. The Mule was buzzing with the noise of old and new friends swapping stories and sharing laughs. This day was especially significant because it was also Captain Gerry Cook&#8217;s last official day on the Mule with summer youth. Ending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Fall recipes from Debra Daniels-Zeller</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/two-fall-recipes-from-debra-daniels-zeller/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/two-fall-recipes-from-debra-daniels-zeller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodshed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Debra Daniels-Zeller, author of The Northwest Vegetarian Cookbook &#8212; Join us for a special vegetarian harvest celebration at the Learning Center when Debra is the guest presenter for our September 24-25 Sourdough Speaker Series event! This tray of fall fruit from Grouse Mountain Farm at the University District farmers market is a rainbow of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why local matters, Washington apples and pears</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/washington-apples-and-pears/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/washington-apples-and-pears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Debra Daniels-Zeller, author of Northwest Vegetarian Cookbook &#8212; Join us for a special vegetarian harvest celebration at the Learning Center when Debra is the guest presenter for our September 24-25 Sourdough Speaker Series event! Fall, apples and pears naturally flow together. Summer harvest is over and rainy winter days loom on the horizon. This [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diablo dam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10436</guid>
		<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>Green Fire: A History of Huxley College</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/green-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/green-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Dietrich I&#8217;ve led a double life, writing about Nazis, pirates, and Napoleonic generals in my fiction but drawing on my newspaper experience to teach environmental journalism. I just ended a five-year stint of such teaching at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, and my swan song was completing work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Trip: Yellowstone</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/road-trip-yellowstone/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/road-trip-yellowstone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yellowstone Association]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as we love North Cascadian landscapes, we here at the Institute are still called to visit and experience other amazing places on our planet. We publish accounts of the places Institute staff and graduate students visit in our Road Trip series. About this time last year, summer solstice, with its long days filled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Nature</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/lessons-from-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/lessons-from-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A group poem written by the 4th graders of Lummi Nation School, based on an Ute Prayer. The poem was drawn from inspiration during students&#8217; time at Mountain School. Earth Teach Me Earth teach me love&#8230;as the two ducks swimming in the pond together. Earth teach me to be happy&#8230;like the animals in nature are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Together to Save our Environment</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/working-together/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/working-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=9422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. James M. Ford Recently I attended the annual Skagit Land Trust fundraising auction where some 240 people gathered to raise more than $50,000 to help conserve land and critical habitat right here in Skagit County. Corporate sponsors from throughout the county and scores of volunteers stepped forward to lend a hand. The event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathleen Dean Moore &amp; an ethical response to climate change</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/kathleen-dean-moore/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/kathleen-dean-moore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Kathleen Dean Moore will present her new book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril at Village Books in Bellingham on Wed, February 9, at 7 pm; free! Because of humanityâ€™s addiction to fossil fuels, we are warming our earth beneath a cloak of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Here in Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Bay Wild: An Artist&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/union-bay-wild/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/union-bay-wild/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=8158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Molly Hashimoto Teaching landscape watercolor in summer and autumn at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center on Diablo Lake encompasses everything I love best: peaks, forests, water, wildlife and enthusiastic fellow artists. When I am at home in Seattle, I seek out the quieter parks nearby, especially Union Bay Natural Area, also known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Angell eagles land at the Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/tony-angell-eagles/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/tony-angell-eagles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, North Cascades Institute was the beneficiary of a major piece of artwork from Qwest Communications, thanks in large part to its creator, Northwest sculptor Tony Angell. &#8220;Ascending Eagles&#8221; is cast bronze, approximately 12 feet tall (including its granite base, part of the composition) and was commissioned by Qwest. It stood in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take your class on a free Electronic Field Trip to North Cascades National Park</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/take-your-class-on-a-free-electronic-field-trip-to-north-cascades-national-park/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/take-your-class-on-a-free-electronic-field-trip-to-north-cascades-national-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What: A free Electronic Field Trip to North Cascades National Park to explore climate change and its effects on people and ecosystems Who: Students 4th through 8th grade When: October 13, 2010, 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. PDT How: Register for free at http://www.northcascadeseft.com North Cascades Institute, North Cascades National Park and the National Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Trip: The John Muir Trail</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/john-muir-trail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road Trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The second installment in our ongoing Road Trip series, in which Institute staff visit other amazing places around the country and bring back stories and photos to share!] &#8220;Keep close to Nature&#8217;s heart&#8230; and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.&#8221; &#8211;John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koma Kulshan</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/koma-kulsan/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/koma-kulsan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Miles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[komo kulshan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Baker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Miles will read from his book Koma Kulshan at Village Books on Sat, May 1, at 7 pm. Photo by Brett Baunton. Mount Baker was officially named by George Vancouver for Lieutenant Joseph Baker of the good ship Discovery who directed his captainâ€™s attention to the dominant white peak on the eastern horizon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathleen Dean Moore&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Comfort&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/wild-comfort/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/wild-comfort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kathleen Dean Moore is one of the finest writers in our country, a great teacher and generous spirit. We&#8217;ve gotten to know her over the past few years as she has been an instructor in our Thunder Arm Writing Retreat at the Learning Center, teaching writing skills alongside Rick Bass, Holly Hughes, Gary Ferguson, Ana [...]]]></description>
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