Snapshots of Paddling on the Skagit
While the Broncos and the Panthers were playing the biggest football game of the year, almost two dozen of us living in the upper Skagit valley traveled …
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Echoes from the Dam
Imagine yourself standing atop of Diablo Dam in the early morning of a crisp, winter day. Behind you five ravens are circling near a patch of trees lining …
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Favorite Nature Art & Photo Books of 2015
I’m fortunate to get to review books for various regional publications, most often in the Cascadia Weekly. I get the privilege and pleasure of being sent many …
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A Call to Education toward Resilience
The shift was abrupt. It came with little warning. As smoke billowed up the Newhalem Gorge and filled the tiny mountain town of Diablo, I had 20 …
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Kristin Musgnug: Artist in Residence
By Kristin Musgnug I am a landscape painter whose goal is to make paintings of the kind of places that don’t usually show up in landscape paintings …
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Shooting Stars: Nighttime Photography, Wildflowers and More (a preview of 2016!)
By Rob Rich I came to the Pacific Northwest for many reasons, but one of them was, well, for the birds. Were those harlequin ducks for real? …
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Gary Snyder’s “August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer”
“August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer” Poem by Gary Snyder from The Back Country; a reading by Rob Rich You hitched a thousand miles north …
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Tim McNulty's "Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout"
“Night, Sourdough Mountain Lookout” Poem by Tim McNulty; a reading with Rob Rich A late-summer sun threads the needles of McMillan Spires and disappears in a reef of …
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Ana Maria Spagna's "Reclaimers"
Guest post by Ana Maria Spagna; an excerpt from the Prologue “The Low Ground” to Reclaimers, (UW Press 2015) Spagna reads from her new book at Village Books in Bellingham on Thursday, October …
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Ana Maria Spagna: Writer, Trail Worker, Stehekin Resident
Ana Maria Spagna reads from her new book Reclaimers at Village Books in Bellingham on Thursday, October 8, at 7 pm as part of our Nature of Writing Fall Speaker Series; free! …
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