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Happy 50th Birthday North Cascades National Park!

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May 6, 2018

North Cascades National Park Complex celebrates 50 years/NCI

This year marks the 50th anniversary of establishment of the North Cascades National Park Complex/North Cascades Institute

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex, a sprawling, wild reserve that includes North Cascades National Park and the Ross Lake and Lake Chelan national recreation areas.

North Cascades Institute celebrates this milestone in the ongoing story of these mountains, and salutes the many people who have championed their protection. Because of earlier generations’ forward-thinking stewardship and activism, these magnificent mountains, lakes, rivers and forests are here today for all of us to enjoy, recharge, recreate and seek solace in!

For more than 30 years, North Cascades Institute has helped people of all ages explore, enjoy, and learn about this special corner of the country. This nationally recognized education nonprofit offers many exciting ways to connect with the natural and cultural history of “America’s Alps.” You’re invited to join the institute for an afternoon, an overnight stay, or a weekend— sign up for a family camp, art or ecology class, Diablo Lake boat tour, geology hike or another one of the dozens of opportunities designed to get you outside.

Base Camp offers you the opportunity to explore the natural and cultural history of the North Cascades while enjoying the comforts of the institute’s campus in the heart of North Cascades National Park— one of only a handful of overnight venues inside the park. Each night of Base Camp includes guided outdoor learning activities, lodging and three delicious meals, starting at $65/night.

Or, join a Family Getaway and enjoy comfortable accommodations, delicious meals and a wide variety of engaging, hands-on activities like canoeing, hiking, outdoor games and nature crafts. Watch a video here. Five weekends in July-September, all ages welcome!

The institute offers dozens of hands-on Learning Adventures, including single day and weekend classes on birding, geology, wildlife tracking, journaling, mushrooms and more. Upcoming classes include The Art of Drawing Maps, In the Company of Corvids, Digital Photography Workshops, Watercolors, Birding Field Trips and more! All of these programs and more can be found at www.ncascades.org/get_outside. You can contact the registration team with any questions at (360) 854-2599 or email [email protected].

Special North Cascades Anniversary Events:  August 25: Anniversary Celebration at Newhalem Visitor Center, North Cascades National Park. October 2: A Celebration of the 50th Birthday of North Cascades National Park, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and the National Trails System Act at The Mountaineers Program Center in Seattle

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Submitted by [email protected] on May 7, 2018 - 1:46pm.

The Actual National Park Birthday is October  2nd, 1968, the same as Redwood NP  both signed by LBJ  during the period when Lady Bird Johnson was promoting the value of beautiful American landscapes including the value of wildflowers.
 

 

 

 

344 - Remarks at the Dedication of Lady Bird Johnson Grove in Redwood National Park in California.
August 27, 1969

Mrs. JOHNSON. Thank you, Mr. President. You have given me a day to treasure always, and I am grateful. I am grateful, too, to another President who in his time, along with many, many people, did what he could to insure that these trees would be here for all the tomorrows.

Conservation is indeed a bipartisan business because all of us have the same stake in this magnificent continent. All of us have the same love for it and the same feeling that it is going to belong to our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren--I am coming to understand that a lot better these days--the same opportunity to work in our time to see that it stays as glorious.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2213

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2011/06/national-park-road-trip-20...

Late morning on October 2, 1968, President Johnson greeted Francois Tombalbaye, the president of Chad. That night Johnson held a formal state dinner. The day was chock-full and hectic. But the effect of one 39-minute interval still reverberates today.

The setting was the East Room of the White House. A large map was hung and there were so many conservation dignitaries present that President Johnson ran out of pens. Starting at 1:17 p.m., the president signed acts creating Redwood National Park and North Cascades National Park, he signed the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and he signed the National Trails System Act.

The National Trails System Act designated two trails as the nation's first national scenic trails. One was the Appalachian Trail. The other was the Pacific Crest Trail.

https://www.pcta.org/2017/wife-president-helped-create-pct-45800/

 


Submitted by Rick B. on May 7, 2018 - 2:48pm.

Apparently, conservation is no longer a bipartisan issue.

 

I love living 8 miles from North Cascades National Park, and celebrate it being home to such a large wilderness.


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