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Pedaling to the Pacific
By Annika Gordon February 1, 2017 In the spring of my senior year of high school, when all of my friends were planning where to attend college, I was planning a bike tour down the Pacific Coast. I didn’t decide to do a gap year because I thought I was “too cool for school;” I…
Grassroots Routs Goliath
By Linwood Laughy & Borg Hendrickson January 27, 2017 In spring of 2010, fifteen Upper Clearwater Valley friends gathered in concern for their safety, their homes and businesses, and the beautiful, wild place they love —the Lochsa-Clearwater Wild & Scenic River corridor. With full support of Idaho’s state government, a Canadian subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Imperial…
Of Orcas and Dams
By Debra Ellers of Port Townsend, WA January 24, 2017 On a brisk November evening I dressed like an orca on a sidewalk in Walla Walla. What’s up? The connection between declining salmon, declining orcas, and the four Lower Snake River dams brought me there. The Southern Residents orcas, who roam the Northwest’s coastal waters,…
Beyond the Whirligig…
By Pat Ford January 17, 2017 The part of me that knows I must think about conservation and our new president has perhaps finally outgrown the part that wants to go back to bed. I think our new president is a willful and erratic man. This makes strategizing across the spectrum of conservation issues difficult,…
