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	<title>Chattermarks &#187; Odds &amp; Ends</title>
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		<title>Koma Kulshan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Miles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[komo kulshan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
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		<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 captain’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>
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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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		<title>Bob Mierendorf and the pre-history of Cascade Pass</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/mierendorf/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/mierendorf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park archaeologist, and long-time Institute field instructor and former board member, Bob Mierendorf is prominently featured in an excellent new article just published in Washington State Magazine, published by Washington State University. In &#8220;Of Time and Wildness in the North Cascades,&#8221; Mierendorf interprets his important work in documenting native presence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the waterfall, bearing witness</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/watching-the-waterfall-bearing-witness/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/watching-the-waterfall-bearing-witness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An alder leaf on a trail. A chance encounter between a weasel and a hawk. The mad rush of a waterfall. These images &#8211; and more &#8211; were captured in words by the participants in the North Cascades workshop Sit, Walk, Write: Nature and the Practice of Presence, held at the Environmental Learning Center on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite photos of 2009</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/favorite-photos-of-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/favorite-photos-of-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCI programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am very fortunate in that part of my professional duties here at North Cascades Institute include visiting our programs out in the field to photograph them. Every summer since I was hired as the communication coordinator, I&#8217;ve been able to get up on Ross Lake via Gerry Cook&#8217;s infamous Ross Mule, and this past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wilderness Warrior</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-wilderness-warrior/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-wilderness-warrior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Miles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Wildlife Refuge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The days are getting longer, but slowly, and there are still plenty of dark, rainy evenings this winter for reading. If, as a member of the Institute community, you wish to broaden and deepen your knowledge of conservation history &#8211; We are into “conserving and restoring northwest environments through education” are we not? &#8211; then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of gray wolves in Washington</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-future-of-gray-wolves-in-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/the-future-of-gray-wolves-in-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wolves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no denying it; wolves are returning to the Evergreen State.  Once again home to gray wolves, Washington state now has two confirmed wolf packs: the Lookout Pack in western Okanogan County and the Diamond Pack in Pend Oreille County.  That number is expected to increase as a result of the dispersal of wolves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone huntin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/gone-huntin/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/naturalist-notes/gone-huntin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naturalist Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[larch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Okanogan National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pasayten Wilderness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=2929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eyes on the side like to hide. Eyes on the front like to hunt.&#8221; With rhymes like these, we begin to introduce students to the energy relationships between prey and predator here in the North Cascades.  For this fall season’s Mountain School Ranger Program, fifth grade students examine a variety of mammal skulls.  There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Lynch at Learning Center, Oct. 10-11; win a copy of his new novel &#8220;Border Songs&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/jim-lynch-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/jim-lynch-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sourdough Speaker Series]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=2660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we arranged to have novelist Jim Lynch appear at the Learning Center to be a Sourdough Speaker a year ago, our timing couldn&#8217;t have been better &#8212; Jim&#8217;s then-forthcoming novel Border Songs is set in Whatcom County near the foothills of the North Cascades and is populated with an astonishing amount of natural history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing the Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/capturing-the-cascades/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/capturing-the-cascades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the second weekend in September, 12 photographers joined me (Benj Drummond) at the Learning Center for a weekend seminar on digital photography. We enjoyed clear sunny days and took advantage of the beautiful fall light from dawn until dusk (and then kept shooting). After returning from the field, we edited and tweaked our images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Harris Remembered</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/jim-harris-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/jim-harris-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I met Jim Harris 30 years ago on one of my first hikes up Thunder Creek into the North Cascades when I was a young, brand-new backcountry ranger. Who was this guy who seemed to have been around forever, since &#8220;before the park,&#8221; and had all these stories about logging and mining and cougars? At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KCTS in the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/kcts-in-the-north-cascades/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/kcts-in-the-north-cascades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glaciers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in the news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A fine video from KCTS Channel 9 in Seattle featuring our Executive Director Saul Weisberg and some of our friends in the National Park Service. It is part of PBS&#8217; campaign to highlight America&#8217;s National Parks in anticipation of the forthcoming Ken Burns series, &#8220;National Parks: America&#8217;s Best Ideas.&#8221; What do you think of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natures Calling</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/natures-calling/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/natures-calling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 19:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ski to Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are eight members of the current NCI graduate class.  There are eight members on a  Ski to Sea team.  It seemed meant to be.  We called ourselves Natures Calling.  The name has multiple meanings and origins.  As Mountain School instructors we carry the &#8220;Natures Calling Kit&#8221;, for those times on the trail when, well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Snyder and &#8220;Riprap&#8221; book give-away</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/gary-snyder-and-riprap/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/gary-snyder-and-riprap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire lookouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Snyder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you know anything about Gary Snyder, then you can understand why we here at North Cascades Institute are incredibly excited about his forthcoming visit to Seattle on May 27. Strands of Snyder are interwoven in to the Institute, our mission, our staff and our North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, and his poetry and worldview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Tom Robbins Incognito&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/tom-robbins-incognito/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/tom-robbins-incognito/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though we haven&#8217;t coerced him in to a Sourdough Speaker Series presentation &#8212; we&#8217;re working on it! &#8212; Skagit Valley scribe Tom Robbins is definitely a part of the cultural history of our region. His first novel Another Roadside Attraction, published way back in 1971 and today a certifiable cult classic, was set in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman Lured West: Abby Hill&#8217;s Legacy of Art &amp; Conservation</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/abby-williams-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/abby-williams-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Molly Hashimoto Abby Williams Hill visited Horseshoe Basin in the North Cascades in 1903 after an arduous journey by steamer on Lake Chelan, on horseback and on foot.  Her commission from the Great Northern Railway was to create 22 oil canvases en plein air in 18 weeks, and much of that time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sciuridae- a poem by John Hildebidle</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/sciuridae-a-poem-by-john-hildebidle/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/sciuridae-a-poem-by-john-hildebidle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[squirrels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The month of April is National Poetry Month.  It is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. In honor of this celebration of poetry I wanted to share a poem about one of my favorite family of critters in the forest, the Sciuridae, perhaps better known to some as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anemones and Jennys</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/anemones-and-jennys/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/anemones-and-jennys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildflowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started a research project this week about Alpine Ecology, focusing on alpine plant adaptations. Over and over again I saw the name anemone. There was a Three-leaved anemone, Northern anemone, Lyall&#8217;s anemone, Cut-leaf anemone, Alpine anemone, Yellow anemone, Narcissus anemone, and the Western anemone. These flower  names remind me of the Jenny and Jennifer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Earth: book giveaway contest!</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/odds-and-ends/american-earth-giveaway-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Edited by Bill McKibben, Foreword by Al Gore, The Library of America I already own plenty of different anthologies of nature writing, but Bill McKibben argues in his introduction that &#8220;environmental writing&#8221; is different — &#8220;it takes as its subject the collision between people and the rest of world,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding peace</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/life-at-the-learing-center/findingpeace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds & Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PEACE- &#8220;It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in you heart.&#8221; (unknown) Surrender Box (Image: an excerpt from my journal) February 2009 is coming to an end and the graduate students [...]]]></description>
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