by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | Land Stewards
I set my alarm for around 6:15am. That’s fifteen minutes later than when I first started this job. By now I know how to time myself for the most sleep possible and be ready for work. Breakfast is microwaved leftovers since I’ve never been much for breakfast foods...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Aug 6, 2018 | Land Stewards
As a Wilderness trails ranger with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, I have the great privilege of working in the Glacier Peaks Wilderness. Now that I’m more than a third of the way through the season, I’d like to share some highlights. As its name suggests, the...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 26, 2018 | Land Stewards
It’s hard to explain to someone what a burn area looks like. In the back of my mind I knew the Entiat River Valley burned badly in the Wolverine Fire of 2015. I grew up in Wenatchee, just 20 miles south, and every summer the valley fills with smoke from one fire or...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
I was motivated to apply for the Mt. Adams Institute Public Lands Stewards program after seeing that they had a position available in the Methow Valley Ranger District of the Okanogan- Wenatchee National Forest. I was specifically looking for work in this area because...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
It is now about two months into my internship at the Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge and it has definitely been a drastic change from my home in Alabama. I skipped my college graduation (which I had been searching for a good reason to do) because I was riding in...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
I’m writing this as I wait for the sun to go down so that Hannah, my AmeriCorps partner, and I can begin our nighttime bullfrog hunt. I’d really like to use a better word than hunt, say survey or monitoring, but hunting for all intensive purposes is what we do....
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one,...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
Hello! My name is Emma and I am one of the 2018 Mt. Adams Public Land Stewards. I am based out of the Entiat Ranger district, and my official title is wilderness backcountry ranger. I am originally from North Carolina, and I drove out to the west coast the week before...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 24, 2018 | Land Stewards
Hello, my name is Brandon Self and I am a member of the Mt. Adams Institute (MAI) team who just joined for a 6-month AmeriCorps internship at the beginning of May. I joined the Public Lands Stewards program because I just recently graduated from Oregon State...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jul 16, 2018 | Land Stewards
Who isn’t nervous about their first day of a new job? Maybe a few people, but I don’t know them. I had a strong idea of what I was getting myself into with this position. I’m a Public Lands Stewards intern with Mt. Adams Institute (MAI), in partnership with...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jun 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
It’s been roughly a month since I graduated from college and moved all the way across the United States to start working with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) through the Mt. Adams Institute’s AmeriCorps program: Public Lands Stewards! I think I can...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jun 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
When I got the call from the Mt. Adam’s Institute (MAI) program coordinator, Marijke, that I would be joining the Chelan Ranger District as a wilderness trails ranger intern for the summer, I blurted “YES” into the phone rather embarrassingly and high fived a coworker...
by Mt. Adams Institute | May 11, 2018 | Land Stewards, Summer Camp
Over two years ago, I sat in a Caffè Nero in Istanbul, Turkey, overlooking the Bosphorus Strait, writing my AmeriCorps application to work at Cascade Mountain School. I measured time by the number of barges that passed, shipping goods from the Black Sea to the...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Mar 28, 2018 | Summer Camp
Cascade Mountain School extends a huge thank you to all our community partners who support our programming year round by sharing their knowledge and practices, homes and trades, experiences and inspiration with our participants. YOU make our programming rich, deep,...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 23, 2018 | Land Stewards, Summer Camp
There is a certain personal power that possesses me and I believe it has propelled me through most of my bold, ill-advised, far-off and ultimately life-shaping experiences. That spirit goes along nicely with a sentiment from T.S. Eliot that I’ve come to own privately,...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 10, 2018 | Land Stewards
This summer, I have been working with the Pacific Northwest Trail Association. The Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) is designed to take a hiker through some of the most rugged and isolated terrain in the region. It is the home of the grizzly bear, the woodland caribou,...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Dec 8, 2017 | Land Stewards, Summer Camp
In August, I was tagged in a Facebook post by Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center celebrating their 10th anniversary of summer backpacking trips. Through the expanse of social media, the program coordinator was commemorating the growth of the program and curious about...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 17, 2017 | Land Stewards
The Lake Chelan area that we have been working on has a large number of trails, from short hour-long trips to destinations that can take 3 days of hard work to get to. A significant amount of our time is spent on one 30-mile stretch of trail and its branching...
