You see that fin slicing up through the surface—tall, tall, taller—until at last the body follows and an exhaled plume of breath huffs up? You know you’re …
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Initially preserved to protect its dwindling forests and population of Roosevelt elk, Olympic National Park is home to diverse ecosystems that boast glacier-capped mountains, old-growth temperate rain …
Read More of Campfire Stories: “Syncing Up at Sol Duc” with Rena Priest
The future of forests and the future of humanity are inextricably entwined. I’m not saying this for dramatic effect; it is simply a fact. As bleak and …
Read More of The Power of Trees
We here in Cascadia know the forests that surround us are many things: places of refuge and play; home to countless critters that crawl, climb, slither and …
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As soon as you step into a forest, you step into a different space. Depending on the type of forest, the trees may be growing together so …
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If you can imagine a grayish-brown, rabbit-like creature the size of a grapefruit and nearly as round, that is an American pika. They inhabit mountain slopes, often …
Read More of “Buying Time for Pikas” by Thor Hanson
I sat on a pile of leaves and conifer needles in the space between where two large roots of a western red cedar sloped to the ground.
Read More of Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust: Excerpt from Heather Durham
Here’s a story line. A boy grows up in an idyllic place, a small rural place, the plains of Nebraska, say, or small town North Carolina. What …
Read More of UPLAKE: Restless Essays of Coming and Going: Excerpt from Ana Marie Spagna
MOUNTAIN CARIBOU ROAM up and down the mountains from valley bottom to mountaintop, back and forth across an international border, in and out of political discourse, and …
Read More of Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope
Join North Cascades Institute at Village Books in Bellingham on May 3 at 7 pm for a free reading by Kathleen Dean Moore from her new book Great …
Read More of Great Tide Rising: Toward Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change
