by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 9, 2022 | SOP 12
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description: In the 1980s, a new idea was gaining momentum in the Gorge. It came in response to a familiar challenge – how do we keep people healthy? Does it start and stop at the doctor’s office?...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 12, 2022 | SOP 12
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Plants that attract native pollinators year round Oregon Bee Project – Bee Atlas What you can do in our backyard to help save the bees! Lecture Description: The Columbia...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 6, 2022 | Field Notes
What a year this has been so far! Throughout my internship, I have been exposed to so many new learning opportunities. My position had a slow start, but as my qualifications began stacking up, so did the availability of work I was able to do. A large majority of what...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Dec 8, 2021 | SOP 12
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Lecture Description Debris flows are rapidly moving, water-saturated masses of rock and sediment that occur naturally on volcanoes like Mount Adams and Mount Hood. Small, storm-triggered debris flows occur...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 10, 2021 | SOP 12
Event Details Where: Click here to watch the recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Check out this podcast on wolverines Lecture Description: Two rare carnivores roam the high-alpine regions of the Washington Cascades. Wolverines were once eliminated entirely from...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 10, 2021 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Veterans Day Celebration: Julian Rodriguez Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Julian Rodriguez,...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 8, 2021 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Veterans Day Celebration: Patrick Ford Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Patrick Ford, Volunteer...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 5, 2021 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Veterans Day Celebration: Chris Sutherland Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Chris Sutherland, Field...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 2, 2021 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Veterans Day Celebration: Elamon White Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Elamon White, VetsWork Alum...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 29, 2021 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Veterans Day Celebration: Amanda Williams Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Amanda Williams, Public...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 25, 2021 | Field Notes
A huge thank you to all of our Season 12 sponsors! Without your generosity, Sense of Place would not be possible. Find out more about our sponsors below. Gorge Community Foundation Dog River Coffee Columbia Insight Insitu Columbia Gorge Physical Therapy and Sports...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 13, 2021 | SOP 12
Event Details Where: Click here to watch recorded lecture. Additional Resources: Mycomatch.com & mushroomsofcascadia.com Lecture Description: Virtually every habitat found anywhere in the entire Cascadia Region, from southern Alaska to Central California and from...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 4, 2021 | Field Notes
Trout Lake, Wash. (Oct. 3, 2021) — Mt. Adams Institute (MAI) received a $75,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for facility construction and renovation on MAI’s campus. This includes final additions to the new pavilion, replacement of bunkhouse...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 17, 2021 | Field Notes
After spending the past ten years as the Executive Director of the Mt. Adams Institute (MAI), I have decided to step away from the organization.. . . AND that’s a good thing! Let me tell you why. In the beginning, MAI was just an idea that stemmed from finding myself...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 17, 2021 | Field Notes
Mt. Adams Institute (MAI) is recruiting a new executive director. Current leader, Brendan Norman, announced his resignation effective May 1, 2022. Norman, along with MAI’s founding board of directors, created the organization in 2011. MAI, a nonprofit organization...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 30, 2021 | Field Notes, Land Stewards
I realized pretty quickly after graduating from the University of Missouri – Columbia that an office job just wasn’t going to do it for me. Languishing inside during the most beautiful days of the year was just too painful for me to continue with. Then I found...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | Field Notes, Land Stewards
The Umatilla National Forest (UNF) recently restricted access to the public due to unfavorable fire conditions. The unprecedented heatwave that washed over the Pacific Northwest in June set record-breaking high temperatures causing fire season to come early. Until the...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | VetsWork
Alaska has been called the last frontier, and for good reason. It embodies the spirit of frontier living, where people hunt, fish and gather, an ode to how our ancestors lived. Its beauty is still intact thanks in large part to the people that oversee the land, and...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | VetsWork
Over the last five months I have been working as a Recreation, Education, Community Engagement Specialist with Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) and its numerous partners out of Garibaldi, Oregon. TEP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, with the mission to...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | VetsWork
This Picture is a great example of the weather in Ketchikan Alaska. A beautiful and sunny day turns cloudy and rainy, then turns back to sun. If the weather is going to deter your spirit, then Southeast Alaska isn’t the place for you. I for one have fallen in love...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 11, 2021 | VetsWork
I am halfway through my second term with VetsWork and I’m feeling grateful for the opportunity that Mt. Adams Institute has given me. I’m serving at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky and Tennessee. My first term was spent bouncing around...
