Announcing:
CLEARING 2026 Editorial Calendar
and a Call to Celebrate the Spirit of Cascadia at NAAEE 2026
As environmental educators, we know that the power of place begins right here — in our watersheds, forests, coasts, and communities. That’s why CLEARING Magazine is excited to introduce a new editorial calendar designed to spotlight the themes, voices, and innovations shaping environmental education across the Pacific Northwest and the greater Cascadia bioregion.
This refreshed calendar will guide our publication over the coming year and beyond, aligning our content around shared topics that matter most to educators in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Idaho, Alaska, and beyond — from climate resilience and outdoor learning to Indigenous perspectives and environmental justice.
And the timing couldn’t be better. In late 2026, the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Conference will bring the continent’s environmental education community to our region. This is an extraordinary opportunity to unify our regional efforts and showcase the best of Cascadia’s EE leadership — the creativity, collaboration, and deep sense of place that define our work here.
Through this new editorial vision, CLEARING invites educators, storytellers, researchers, artists, and community leaders to contribute to a collective portrait of what environmental education looks like in Cascadia today — and where it’s headed next. Together, we can amplify local stories, strengthen regional connections, and welcome the wider EE world to experience what makes this place so remarkable.
See the full editorial calendar HERE.
Join us as we prepare to celebrate Cascadia’s environmental education community on the national stage.
The archives have grown!
Check out some of the many back issues that were published at the beginning of the millennium. You will be amazed at the quality of articles and the level of participation from environmental educators across the region.
You can find these issues, available in flip-page format, in the Menu bar at the top of the page. Look under the Back Issues tab to select a back issue and relive the early days of environmental education in the Pacific Northwest!
From past issues of CLEARING…
Ear to the Ground – Saul Weisberg, North Cascades Institute
This interview is the first in a series that will be a regular feature in Clearing. Check back each month for a new interview with a leading environmental educator in the Pacific Northwest. Saul...
The Forests of Lewis & Clark: Lessons from Dynamic Nature
by Jeremy Solin Standing next to a monstrous 300-year old Sitka spruce near Clark's Point of View on the Oregon coast, I try to imagine what the forests in this area were like when Captain Clark and...
Burning Issues: Integrating the Curriculum With a Fire Ecology Unit
Burning Issues: Integrating the Curriculum With a Fire Ecology Unit Two Idaho classroom teachers share their strategies for integrating fire into the curriculum and meeting state mandated learning...
Fire’s Role in the Lives of People and the Forests of the Pacific Northwest
Activities for grade K-12 (Adapted from Fire in Pacific Northwest Ecosystems, Environmental Education Association of Oregon and Pacific Northwest Coordinating Group, 1997.) Compiled by Susan Duncan,...
CLEARING is published in support of state/regional E.E. associations
and organizations in the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia bioregion.
Alaska Natural Resources and Outdoor Education
Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network
Environmental Education Provincial Specialist Association (British Columbia)
Idaho Environmental Education Association
