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Winter Programs Getting Under Way At North Cascades Institute

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By NPT Staff - December 19th, 2017

As snow falls in the North Cascades of Washington state and the highway closes for another winter, life is slower and quieter at the Environmental Learning Center at the North Cascades Institute. After a busy summer and fall of teaching, the institute's naturalists are off for a well-earned break, some upriver staff head out on furlough, but learning continues at the organization's campus on Diablo Lake.

Graduate M.Ed. students are deep into their Nonprofit Leadership and Administration course, taught by the Institute’s Executive Director Saul Weisberg and featuring focused sessions led by the institute's financial, marketing, fundraising and other teams — a unique way for future change-makers to understand and experience how nonprofits work by showing the behind-the-scenes at the Institute and sharing our staff’s expertise. 

The institute also is getting ready to kick-off another year of Youth Ambassadors, with 14 high school students from Sedro-Woolley, Washington, and 13 students from Concrete, Washington, coming together for a year of developing leadership and outdoor skills, facilitating service and stewardship in our local communities and gaining college preparedness support.

Also coming up, Mt. Baker SnowSchool, discounted Winter Base Camp Learning & Lodging, and Wilderness First Responder Recertification and Remote Emergency Medical Technician courses at the Environmental Learning Center this winter.

Here's a calendar look at upcoming programs at the institute. For more details or to register, visit this site or call 360-854-2599.

* Jan 15-Feb 9: Remote Emergency Medical Technician
* Feb 15-18: Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Recertification with NOLS
* Feb 17: Birding the Greater Skagit Delta with Libby Mills
* Feb 17-18: Night Photography at Diablo Overlook 1 with Andy Porter
* Feb 18-19: Night Photography at Diablo Overlook 2 with Andy Porter
* Feb 23-25: The Art of Drawing Maps with Jocelyn Curry (ELC)
* March 2-4: Winter Tracking with Marcus Reynerson (ELC)
* March 2-4: Winter Watercolors with Nikki Frumkin (ELC)

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