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"Ish River"--
like breath,
like mist rising from a hillside.
Duwamish, Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Samish,
Skokomish, Skykomish...all the ish rivers.
I live in Ish River country
between two mountain ranges where
many rivers
run down to an inland sea.
--Robert Sund, Skagit Valley scribe
2016-03-19 18:53
Waging Heavy Peace
Neil Young
If you like memoirs that really reveal the interior life of the
subjects, as opposed to the polished, sometimes ghost-written
promotional tomes that politici… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
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2016-03-19 18:53
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2013-01-03 19:59
Spokane-based author, naturalist and teacher Jack Nisbet is
fascinated with the natural and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. He
is one the most gifted interpreters of the wild boun… Read More
2013-01-03 19:49
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2013-01-03 19:44
Summer books that
explore the natural wonders of the planet
The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege
(University of Washington Press)
Mark Fiege… Read More
2012-10-12 19:35
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2012-10-12 19:35
The coldest places are ravaged by a warming world.
“I describe this as the Arctic paradox,” explorer and educator
Subhankar Banerjee said. “The very thing that is devasta… Read More
2012-06-01 23:01
Gary Snyder at Bellingham High School, 2004
"In the fall of 2004, I heard Gary Snyder read from his most recent collection of poems, Danger on Peaks. In a calm, steady tone, Snyder d… Read More
2012-05-22 17:43
I made this slideshow to accompany Gary Snyder's recent reading in Seattle -- he requested I create some visuals of the North Cascades that would put people in the right frame of mind for hi… Read More
2012-05-22 17:43
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2012-05-22 17:22
Two weekends ago, I ventured up the Mt. Baker Highway with undefined plans to make my first sojourn of the season in to the high country. It was a spur-of-the-moment adventure and, winding m… Read More
2012-05-22 17:22
My first 2010 trip away from the Salish Sea occured in May when I caught the Keystone Ferry for Port Townsend and spent a solo week in Olympic National Park, hiking, paddling and observing t… Read More
2012-05-22 17:21
Around the summer solstice in June 2010, Hekter McElliott, Orbit and myself met up in Wyoming for a 10-day tour of Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole.
Hek and I had lived in the… Read More
2012-05-22 17:21
Around the summer solstice in June 2010, Hekter McElliott, Orbit and myself met up in Wyoming for a 10-day tour of Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole.
Hek and I had lived in the… Read More
2012-05-22 17:20
Log decomposition research site, Blue River drainage, Oregon Cascades
By Bill Yake
Trunks, once poised and upright, collapse toward
a two-century graduation into beetle and vapor… Read More
2012-05-22 17:13
Video & photos by S. Glackman. Editing by me. If you like this, check out my Tom Robbins interview 'zine at http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/14846 ! Read More
2012-05-22 17:11
A trip around the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State in early spring. Destinations include Ozette Lake, Rialto Beach and the Quinault Rainforest Read More
2012-05-22 17:07
I bought a Flip MinoHD video camera in mid-March and was looking for a way to play around with it, see what it could do, so I decided to document "a day in my life." On the vernal equinox, I… Read More
2012-05-22 17:06
A survey of recent titles that explore native art and culture, local birds and resident whales, mountaineering and the mycorrhizosphere, and other topics both relevant and esoteric.
Reviews… Read More
2012-05-22 16:49
Tides vs. BordersJim Lynch’s novels explore back corners of Washington State
by Christian Martin
Jim Lynch hit on something sweet and surprising with his 2005 debut novel The Highest… Read More
2012-05-22 16:46
Robert Sund is our bard of the Skagit River, a singer of songs celebrating skunk cabbage, frogs, muddy water, ducks, and the rising tide.
In the summer of 1973, the poet — who studied… Read More
2012-05-22 16:44
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2012-05-22 16:44
2011-04-20 03:58
Kathleen Dean Moore’s ethical response to climate changeReviewed by Christian Martin
Because of humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels, we are warming our planet beneath a cloak o… Read More
2009-07-24 02:40
I received this interesting email through a local kayaking listserv and it seemed appropriate for this blog -- maybe next they'll look in to making "Ish River Country" an official designatio… Read More
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