Thousands of salmon escaped into the Puget Sound. Then the controversy began.
Arts & Culture
Posted inJuly 1, 2022: Living with Rivers
The beauty buried in the data
Art created using laser data reveals the history and geological wonder of Washington’s landscape and rivers.
Posted inAugust 1, 2022: Our Fiery Future
When extremism hides in plain sight
Leah Sottile investigates how an Idaho couple’s embrace of fringe Mormon beliefs led to multiple murder charges in her debut book, ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood.’
Posted inArticles
Raquel Gutiérrez feels shades of desperate
The author of ‘Brown Neon’ on queer fatherhood and being broke down in the desert.
Posted inJuly 1, 2022: Living with Rivers
Your ears will perk up at these new Western podcasts
Four new podcasts envision change in juvenile justice, energy and ranching.
Posted inArticles
Wildfire and detours on the Pacific Crest Trail
A hiker is caught in smoke and decision-making when the Carr Fire broke out in 2018.
Posted inJuly 1, 2022: Living with Rivers
You have a second body
And it’s tethered — in ways both identifiable and mysterious — to microbes, whales, ice shelves and landfills.
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
Witness to the Cold War in the desert
Terry Tempest Williams on Emmet Gowin’s unflinching photos of the Nevada Test Site.
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
poem after a poem by césar vallejo w/ a nod to donald justice
A poem by Jay Hopler.
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
Seeing Mars on Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson on how the High Sierra has influenced his science fiction.
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
The revenge of Big Tech
When tech companies rule the world, what could go wrong?
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
Don’t judge the negative
The weird wonderful world of the negative image.
Posted inMay 1, 2022: New Ways of Seeing the West
On ‘Yellowstone,’ and the white desire to control the narrative
We don’t share land here.
Posted inArticles
Revolution, Coast Salish Style now!
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe on accepting failure as a path to creative healing in her debut memoir, ‘Red Paint.’
Posted inApril 1, 2022: The Archives Issue
Images from the first-known Native American female photographer
Jennie Ross Cobb put her subjects at ease for uniquely candid photos from early 1900s Indian Territory.
Posted inArticles
The forgotten history of wilderness, and a possible future
Mexican American lands were taken upon annexation into the U.S., part of a history that is too often ignored.
Posted inMarch 1, 2022: The Cloning Conundrum
Will we share the same dismal fate as glaciers and forests?
Two recent books look at the parallels between human, ecological and societal illness.
Posted inArticles
The legend of the horned rabbit of the West
Jackalopes have migrated from Wyoming across the nation, but what’s really known about the mythical creature?