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March 25, 2026

We’re hiring four exceptional writers to cover the following desks: Salmon, Environment, New Economies, & Indigenous Leadership.

March 24, 2026

Five “tombolo” poems from the shifting lands of the in-between.

March 11, 2026

How one of the largest cities in Salmon Nation has restored the Duwamish River over the past three decades — community-first and one mucky step at a time.

February 12, 2026

Without Indigenous-led environmental assessments, Tribes and First Nations are too often asked to face the consequences of extractive projects they never consented to.

January 15, 2026

Vancouver, Canada, British Columbia’s largest city, has been attempting to recover its many paved-over waterways. But can what’s been lost ever come back?

January 10, 2026

Here are the most-read Magic Canoe stories this year. New to our platform? These features are a perfect place to start.

January 2, 2026

An unprecedented project to reconnect fish migration routes in western Washington State is showing exciting signs of ecological and cultural benefits.

December 17, 2025

Renegade economist Kate Raworth’s bestselling 2017 book, Doughnut Economics, ignited a global movement. A groundbreaking report last month from the California Doughnut Economics Coalition places the state as a U.S. leader for addressing social and ecological priorities.

November 19, 2025

Magic Canoe is committed to truth, to telling stories that honor Indigenous sovereignty, while refusing to support narratives that perpetuate further colonization of people and place. 

November 18, 2025

Two days in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, B.C., for the annual Migratory Salmon Potlatch.

September 19, 2025

A new program at Chico State University demonstrates the restorative power of connecting with the environment to turn loss into community strength. Does it work?

September 16, 2025

A photographic essay captured during a sailing expedition along British Columbia’s central coast, a journey into one of the world’s last great coastal temperate rainforests.

July 9, 2025

We travel to a herring celebration in Sitka, Alaska.

July 7, 2025

A photo essay from Spencer B. Beebe as he travels to southeast Alaska to experience the herring roe harvest.

June 24, 2025

Seattle hosted the first-ever bioregional finance conference (BioFi), to strategize ways of moving money toward efforts regenerating the environment. Here’s what happened.

June 3, 2025

Hundreds gathered at Qualicum Bay, on Vancouver Island, to fight to remove open-net fish farms from the coastal waters of British Columbia.

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December 11, 2024

Sparrowhawk Native Plants helps gardeners build backyard habitats, while helping local partners flourish, too.

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