Tagged with Northwest 
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Quite a Pear 0
Posted 7 years, 3 months ago -
Killer! Whale Suits
Killer! Whale Suits 0
Posted 7 years, 3 months ago -
Timber Boom II 0
Posted 7 years, 7 months ago -
Going With the Wind
Going With the Wind 0
Posted 8 years, 3 months ago -
Backstroke to the Future 0
Posted 8 years, 4 months ago -
Timber Wars, Fact and Fiction
A review of ‘From the Redwood Forest’ and ‘Forest Blood’ 0
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
The recent high-profile deal to keep chainsaws out of the Headwaters grove of ancient redwood trees near Eureka, Calif., is unlikely to bring about a truce in the raging war over old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Environmentalists continue to dig in their heels and repudiate all compromise (more than 90 percent of U.S. old-growth has already been lost, they say; no more can be sacrificed). Meanwhile, the timber industry flexes its mighty political muscle and logs on.
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Of Fish and Folks
A review of ‘Totem Salmon’ by Freeman House 0
Posted 10 years, 6 months ago
In the wake of the federal government's much trumpeted decision in March to confer threatened and endangered status upon nine salmon runs in Washington and Oregon, Northwesterners will need to reevaluate their relationship with this once mighty species, a cultural icon as well as biological keystone. An ideal beginning would be to delve into Freeman House's Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species.