SCOL Retreat Center

Wrapping up the 2025 Leadership Retreat

October 22, 2025

About twenty of us gathered October 17 at SCOL for KCC’s annual leadership retreat. We focused on our ongoing effort to implement the goals in the KCC Strategic Plan 2024-2029 that was adopted with extensive community input.

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SCOL Wildfire Work Party Recap

August 6, 2025

On July 18th, the very day KCC’s White Tara Retreat began, the Burdoin Fire broke out on the west side of Klickitat County. On the first weekend of August, there was an SCOL workparty to help reduce wildfire risk around the retreat center.

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Thank you to the mighty SCOL Forest Crew!

June 10, 2025

Our most recent SCOL work party was on June 7. If we were Scouts, the members of this crew would have earned their Wood Stacking Badges. Rick McMonagle led the […]

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Much Gratitude for Service at SCOL

March 27, 2025

Members of our Sangha are graciously stepping up to help at SCOL. To create the conditions for spiritual retreats at our wonderful rural facility much effort is required, including cleaning, […]

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Gray Squirrels are endangered? – An SCOL Nature Spotlight by Vicki Fields

September 9, 2024

Yes, the State of Washington designated the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus) as endangered in 2023. This is because there are only three areas in the state where the species […]

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A House Wren’s Love’s Labor Lost, a Nature Tale from SCOL, by Vicki Fields

August 12, 2024

One sunny late Spring morning a bachelor house wren busied himself on the edge of Carrols Creek meadow searching for a perfect nest site. He darted from tree hollows to […]

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Sati Sangha’s Review of their SCOL Retreat

July 15, 2024

“What we found was a beautiful, secluded and well established home for practice. The beautiful land and the clearly marked trails beckoned us on walks that really added to the retreat experience.”

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Wonderful Service and Losar at SCOL

February 11, 2024

On the weekend of Feb. 9 & 10, twelve enthusiastic volunteers came to SCOL for a traditional cleaning of the facility for Losar, Tibetan New Year. We gathered Friday morning […]

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Repairing the SCOL Land

February 1, 2024

An interview with Dora DeCoursey By Vicki Fields, SCOL When KCC purchased the property for Ser Chö Ösel Ling (SCOL) in 2001, efforts to repair damage to the soil and […]

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SCOL Meadow Restoration Project

January 26, 2024

Read about the history of land tending and restoration at SCOL In 2019, KCC began working with scientists from the Yakama Nation Fisheries Program to restore Carrol’s Creek and the […]

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