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	<title>Chattermarks &#187; Youth Adventures</title>
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		<title>Tuition Free High School Opportunities in the North Cascades</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/tuition-free-high-school-opportunities-in-the-north-cascades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christen Kiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desolation Peak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leadership Conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[North Cascades Institute is pleased to announce Summer 2012 Applications are available online for high school students interested in the Cascades Climate Challenge or North Cascades Wild programs. Both programs are tuition-free and focus on leadership, community, stewardship, outdoor skills and connection to the natural world through wilderness experiences in North Cascades National Park and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. A CCC student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience the Second Annual Youth Leadership Conference</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/experience-the-second-annual-youth-leadership-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/experience-the-second-annual-youth-leadership-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park Complex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Leadership Conference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=12271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Pringle, Skagit District Interpreter, North Cascades National Park Complex The second annual Youth Leadership Conference, hosted by North Cascades Institute, North Cascades National Park Complex and Mount Baker-Snoqualamie National Forest at the Environmental Learning Center in North Cascades National Park took place November 11th-13th, 2011. The event brought together more than 60 diverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tracks at the Environmental Learning Center: Winter Mountain School</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/new-tracks-at-the-environmental-learning-center-winter-mountain-school/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/new-tracks-at-the-environmental-learning-center-winter-mountain-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiira</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.Ed. Graduate Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twig tracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter ecology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Middle school students from Lopez Middle School sit excitedly on the wooden benches of the amphitheater for Mountain School orientation. Mittens and gloves fly into the air with eager answers when students are asked what they have seen driving in the school bus up-valley that morning – waterfalls, mountains, more waterfalls. Orientation continues, skits about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain School Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/mountain-school-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/field-excursions/mountain-school-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Stone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field Excursions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulling Blackberries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteer Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=11933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello friends of Mountain School! If you haven&#8217;t yet heard, we&#8217;ve started a new Mountain School Stewardship program in Bellingham. After a class has come to Mountain School, we meet them at a city park within walking distance of their school to do a service project. The students revisit what they learned at the Environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Wild: Fall Experiences Build on Summer&#8217;s Past</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/nc-wild-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/nc-wild-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the start of a new school year, autumn is often a time of new beginnings. For North Cascades Wild participants, the season is a chance to reconnect and continue building on experiences from the past summer. From June through August, 50 high school students from Whatcom, Skagit and King counties spent 12 days canoeing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Connection and Community</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/understanding-connection-and-community/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/understanding-connection-and-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colby Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[place-based]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[systems thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a dreary September morning a team of 6th grade students from Seattle&#8217;s Westside School upend cobble in Deer Creek while searching for macro-invertebrates &#8211; living clues in the mystery of this habitat&#8217;s health and the quality of the water cascading downstream. Their giddy grins and eager body language belie the soggy impediments to learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting with Nature</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/sitting-with-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/sitting-with-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiira</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mountain School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sit Spots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s the second day of Mountain School and our group, the Flying Squirrels, sits spread out along the Sourdough Creek Trail at the Environmental Learning Center with journals and pencils in hand. The forest is seemingly quiet, Fawn Creek tumbles softly along its path in the background and the occasional douglas squirrel rouses student attention [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Trip on the Mule with Ranger Gerry Cook</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/on-the-mule-with-ranger-gerry-cook/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/on-the-mule-with-ranger-gerry-cook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerry Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Mule]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Story and photos by Zach Montes It is July 26th and 55 degrees at the Ross Lake trailhead. The Cascade Climate Challenge participants, about to embark on a 12-day backcountry trip, will literally be challenging the climate. Fortunately, they look battle ready, wielding 3-foot loppers, and bow saws, their battered cooking pots strapped to bulging [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cascades Climate Challenge Leaders: Coming to a community near you</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/ccc-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/ccc-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parks Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen high school students hailing from Oregon and Washington arrived in the North Cascades on June 26th to begin an unforgettable adventure. These young leaders came to participate in the third year of Cascades Climate Challenge, one of North Cascades Institute&#8217;s youth programs. The youth started off by splitting into two groups to go on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at the Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north cas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=10135</guid>
		<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>Building Community Through Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/building-community/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/building-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=9925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stewardship and friendship were at the heart of the efforts during the third North Cascades Wild spring day trip in May. More than a dozen participants from Whatcom and Skagit counties came together at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center as a final chance to meet with their peers before we set out together in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Wild Springs into Stewardship</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/springs-into-stewardship/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/springs-into-stewardship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codi Hamblin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Forest Service]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=9263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many hands make light work. An old saying at the forefront of my mind throughout the first North Cascades Wild spring day trip. A dozen NC Wild participants, several North Cascades Institute instructors and national park staff came together for a day of stewardship work at the North Cascades National Park native plant nursery in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Confluence of Young Leaders</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/a-confluence-of-young-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/institute-news/a-confluence-of-young-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Institute News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthcorps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Learning Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facing Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International District Housing Association WILD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Klondike National Historical Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lewis and Clark National Historical Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Rainier National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Wilderness Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Conservation Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Washington University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth Conservation Corps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=7097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend,Â North Cascades Institute partnered with North Cascades National Park and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest to offer the North Cascades Youth Leadership Conference, â€œA Confluence of Young Leadersâ€ Nov. 12-14 atÂ  the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center. The conference included students from nearby communities such as Seattle, Mount Vernon and Concrete, Wash., as well as representatives from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Cascades Wild&#8217;s service in Seattle</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/nc-wild-service-in-seattle/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/nc-wild-service-in-seattle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=6440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[September 25th marked a special day for North Cascades Wild. It was a day of reconnectionâ€”seeing the friends that were made over the past summerâ€™s 12-day trips in North Cascades National Park and Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. It was a day of rememberingâ€”recalling the beauty of the locations visited, the dedication of the people met, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of summer on Ross Lake</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/the-end-of-summer-on-ross-lake/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/the-end-of-summer-on-ross-lake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The final North Cascades Wild trips of the 2010 summer embarked on their Ross Lake adventures during the middle of August. A total of eighteen students from Skagit, Whatcom, and King Counties and six instructors spent twelve days forming community, practicing leadership and outdoor skills, doing stewardship work, and learning about and exploring their extended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC Wild begins fall exploration</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/ncwild-begins-fall-exploration/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/ncwild-begins-fall-exploration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Baker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To explore your own backyards and expand your sense of placeâ€”this was the central goal of the 2010 North Cascades Wildâ€™s (NC Wild) first fall day trip, held on Saturday, September 18th. Sense of place. What is that? Ask any of this yearâ€™s students of NC Wild and they would be quick to tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Challenge students explore hydropower at the Diablo Powerhouse</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/hydropower-at-the-diablo-powerhouse/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/hydropower-at-the-diablo-powerhouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydropower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle City Light]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Elisabeth Keating, Guest Blogger On a scorching Sunday morning in August, the Climate Challenge students headed a few miles north from our riverside campground on Highway 20. Our destination: Diablo Powerhouseâ€”a key link in the massive Skagit hydroelectricity project which provides 30-40 % of Seattleâ€™s power supply. Our classroom for the day, the Diablo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Climate Change: Tips from Park Rangers</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/teaching-climate-change-tips-from-park-rangers/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/teaching-climate-change-tips-from-park-rangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental educators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rangers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=6098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elisabeth Keating, guest blogger How can you help kids retain their learning when youâ€™re teaching something as complex as climate change? These tips from park rangers Will George of Lewis &#38; Clark National Park and Autumn Carlsen of North Cascades National Park can help convey climate change to children in a compelling and powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student for a Day at North Cascades National Park Headquarters</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/student-for-a-day-at-north-cascades-national-park-headquarters/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/student-for-a-day-at-north-cascades-national-park-headquarters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Special Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cascades Climate Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newhalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rangers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=6143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By guest blogger Elisabeth Keating â€œThe coolest part was when we went snorkeling in Ross Lake, looking for fish. Remember how cold it was?â€ â€œWe met a Spanish forestry Ph.D. student on the boat on Ross Lake. Sheâ€™s here to study how we manage our forests because in her country, the forests have been logged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Wild with the US Forest Service</title>
		<link>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/getting-wild-with-the-us-forest-service/</link>
		<comments>http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/youth-programs/getting-wild-with-the-us-forest-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Youth Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baker Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canoeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Cascades Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stewardship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Forest Service]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chattermarks.ncascades.org/?p=5714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every North Cascades Wild trip is special, from the deep bonds formed in new communities of friends to the service projects to studentsâ€™ self-discovery and leadership development to views of glacier-capped mountains seen from sweatily climbed mountain peaks to learning how to canoe to the close connections students feel to public lands by the end [...]]]></description>
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