phy in the North Cascades and he is currently studying the eruptive history of Mt. Baker and mapping the volcanic rocks near Ross Lake. He is a resident of Bellingham, retired mountaineering guide and occasional instructor at Western Washington University.
National Park for more than 20 years. One of the few experts in alpine archaeology. Bob has taught field seminars since 1986, emphasizing the historical and universal connections all people have with their environment.
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DAVE MOSKOWITZ is a longtime animal tracker, field researcher and backcountry guide. He serves as lead instructor for tracking programs at Wilderness Awareness School and manages the Cascade Wildlife Monitoring Project.
of the upper Skagit Valley, Paula is passionate about wild rivers and mountains, salmon and songbirds. An ardent hiker and gardener, she teaches regularly in youth, family and adult programs, where she’s known affectionately as “Ranger Paula.”
JEFF MUSE, our Learning Center director and backpacking beatnik, is a transplanted Hoosier who fell in love with Cascadia 20 years ago. With 10 years at the Institute, Jeff oversees programs and operations at our field campus when he’s not rambling with his rucksack or paddling down the Skagit.
DENNIS PAULSON is the former director of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound. With decades of field experience, he has researched birds and dragonflies, taught countless classes on wildlife, ecology and evolution and authored more than 70 scientific papers and a half-dozen books, including Shorebirds of the Pacific Northwest, Dragonflies of Washington and Alaska: The Ecotravelers’ Wildlife Guide.
NICHOLAS O’CONNELL is the author of On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature and At the Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers. He has contributed to Newsweek, Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, Food and Wine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sierra, and other publications. Nick also teaches writing classes from Seattle for www.thewritersworkshop.net. PAULA OGDEN-MUSE is a National Park Service educator with more than 20 years in the North Cascades as a wilderness ranger, interpreter and naturalist. A longtime resident { 46 }
MARK TURNER is a freelance editorial photographer specializing in botanical subjects, especially Northwest wildflowers and gardens. He is a member of the native plant societies of Washington and Oregon and his last book, Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest, was selected as a 2007 American Horticultural Society Book Award recipient.
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LIBBY MILLS is a wildlife biologist and artist who has studied birds for nearly 40 years. She has taught natural history from Alaska to Baja to Costa Rica, recording the sights and sounds of nature in field journals, sketchbooks and on audiotape. Her illustrations can be seen in many publications including A Guide to Bird Finding in Washington and Wildflowers of Glacier Bay and Southeast Alaska.
SUSAN PRICHARD is a forest ecologist working for the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory. A resident of the Methow Valley, she has spent most of her life in Washington State studying forests with a focus on the effects of fire and other disturbances on forest dynamics. JON RIEDEL is a National Park Service geologist working throughout the region on glacier monitoring and managing geologic hazards, floodplains and erosion control. A longtime
resident of the upper Skagit Valley, Jon has studied Northwest climate change for nearly 30 years. ADAM RUSSELL is the Learning Center’s naturalist. An inspired athlete and aspiring mountaineer, Adam earned a BS in Biology from Trinity University in Texas and spent time conducting field research in the Amazon, Galapagos Islands, Andes and North Cascades. BARBARA SJOHOLM, travel and mystery writer, novelist, memoirist and translator, lives on the Olympic Peninsula. She has taught writing at Richard Hugo House in Seattle, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Haystack in Oregon and the Whidbey Island Writers’ Conference. Her books include Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer and The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland. HANNAH SULLIVAN, a registered nurse and yoga instructor, splits time between Bellingham and the upper Skagit Valley when she’s not traveling the globe with her husband Gerry. She is an eager paddler, hiker and cross-country skier. DAVE TUCKER researches volcanic stratigra-
CYNTHIA UPDEGRAVE has a MS in Biology Teaching from the University of Washington and has training in botany, ecology, environmental history and restoration Ecology. Working closely with Estella Leopold for many years has grounded her in the historic and biogeographical aspects of regional floras. DANA VISALLI is a field botanist specializing in rare plant species. As director of the Methow Biodiversity Project, he coordinates a biological inventory of the Methow River watershed and publishes The Methow Naturalist, a seasonal natural history journal. Dana is the author of Northwest Dryland Wildflowers, Sagebrush-Ponderosa, Northwest Coastal Wildflowers and Northwest Mountain Wildflowers. SAUL WEISBERG is executive director and cofounder of North Cascades Institute. He has worked throughout the Northwest as a field biologist, fire lookout, commercial fisherman and climbing ranger. Saul is president of the board of the Environmental Education Association of Washington, adjunct faculty at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University and on the board of directors of the Association of Nature Center Administrators. Saul lives in Bellingham with his wife and two daughters and is an avid
paddler, hiker and bug-watcher. SHELLEY WEISBERG is a talented field botanist who delights in teaching the wonders of native plants. She has studied plant communities throughout Washington, coordinated early plant restoration projects for North Cascades National Park and worked at local nurseries for many years. Shelley is the owner of Moonstone Garden Design, specializing in native plants and environmentally responsible practices. RUSS WEISER is the sustainable design coordinator for the Henry Klein Partnership. Before studying architecture, he was on the faculty at Virginia Tech, studying how plants respond to their physical environment. His passion is combining architecture and biology to design beautiful buildings that don’t stress the natural environment. LEE WHITFORD is an Institute naturalist and coordinates our Stewardship programs. In 2004, she earned her MEd in Environmental Education through our Graduate Residency program with Western Washington University. Now that her children are grown, Lee resides in Bellingham and can be found out and about collecting fungi, observing sea creatures, studying rocks or enjoying life. DAVID B. WILLIAMS is a freelance natural history writer and the author of The StreetSmart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle. At present, he is working on a book about the cultural and natural history of building stone from around the United States; Stories in Stone will be published by Walker and Co. in 2009. www.streetsmartnaturalist.com. KENT WOODRUFF is a naturalist and wildlife biologist with the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forest. His classroom is where you can smell and hear and feel the subjects under investigation, and his favorite subjects are birds, bats and butterflies.