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An ambitious restoration project in Tla-o-qui-aht territory is using engineered logjams to rebuild salmon habitat in the degraded Tranquil Creek watershed.

By: Zoë Yunker

From conservation to sharing to storage, farmers, fisheries, and cities are finding solutions through a Yakima Basin plan amid Washington’s fourth consecutive year of drought.

By: Bellamy Pailthorp

Follow photographer Owen Perry on his journey through Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
A public comment period closes soon on a plan to rescind protections for 45 million acres of wildlands, endangering recovery for salmon and hundreds of other species.

By: Tara Lohan

A walk from a fire lookout traces the living relation between seeing and being seen.

By: CMarie Fuhrman

The Roadless Rule Tribal Hub was created to connect Native communities with the facts, on-the-ground tools to submit letters, and more. 

By: Nicholas Triolo 

Traditional knowledge keepers from across the Pacific Northwest came together for two days to explore food sovereignty, culture plants, medicines, and politics.

By: Nika Bartoo-Smith & Lyric Aquino

A popular climate podcast is upping the stakes with some of the smartest and boldest conversations yet. Here are the five must-listen new episodes from their fifth season so far.
How do we come to terms with the discomfort of our times and reshape it for our purposes? This interview with author Rebecca Solnit explores how. 

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

The most comprehensive assessment of Indigenous Guardians programs to date has just been released, outlining the enormous scale of benefits to communities, First Nations, and the bioregion.

By: Indigenous Leadership Initiative

British Columbia’s Kaska Nation wants to protect a wilderness area larger than Denali National Park, which brings both promise and challenge to the future of Indigenous-led conservation.

By: Cameron Fenton

The startup’s underwater turbines are designed to power isolated communities along the coast.

By: Nick Engelfried

The burgeoning cruise ship industry’s presence has its critics, who view it as community-altering and unsustainable, while others welcome its jobs and revenue.

By: Paula Dobbyn

The Skeetchestn Indian Band turns timber into modular housing kits based on a traditional cultural design.

By: Marissa Tiel

More than two dozen Pacific salmonid populations are listed as threatened or endangered. One could soon make history as the first to be recovered.

By: Tara Lohan

An interview with systems thinker, educator, and designer Howard Silverman, to learn more about ‘Warm Data’ and an upcoming training in Portland.

By: Nicholas Triolo

The return of 3.56 acres is a first-of-its-kind community-led project in the Seattle area.

By: Mackenzie Olivo

A glaciologist turns to the Pacific Northwest’s disappearance of ice and the coming of fire.

By: Dr. M Jackson

How relationship and responsibility intersect through words and landscape.

By: CMarie Fuhrman

Jenny Farkas self-funds MakeSpace North Park, a ‘makerspace’ dedicated to increasing diversity in trades and creative fields.

By: Josh Kozelj

Heirs to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott explain their ancestors’ wisdom and how they defend it today.

By: Anna V. Smith & B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster

Why Tribes, First Nations, and scientists all want to remove Washington’s Enloe Dam.

By: Cameron Fenton

A collaborative effort among tribes, irrigators, and environmental groups to untangle conflicts over water use offers a path to success for river restoration and local economies.

By: Tara Lohan

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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