If the old adage, "Once you've studied something long enough, you become it," holds true, the Glacier Institute has a grizzly bear, a glacier and a wildflower or two on staff. For 15 years, the nonprofit educational organization has recruited wildlife experts and artists to take students of all ages traipsing about Glacier National Park in northern Montana. College students come to pick up extra credits, teachers come to earn certification points, and all manner of others arrive from around the country to get an inside look at Glacier's high country. The summer schedule includes a class on Montana's mushrooms (a frying pan and butter are recommended equipment for collecting outside the park), courses on orchids, medicinal herbs and watercolor painting, and plenty of opportunities to learn from the experts about glaciers and grizzlies. Contact the Glacier Institute at 137 Main Street, P.O. Box 7457, Kalispell, MT 59904, call 406/755-1211, e-mail glacinst@digisys.net, or find it on the World Wide Web at www.digisys.net/glacinst.