Outdoor movie nights across Cascadia, chaos in the Oregon legislature, preparing for endless summer smoky skies, the importance of naming orcas, a crisis in WA over nursing home care? And an interview with commercial angler and poet Sierra Golden.
Cascadia Daily, June 21, 2019
A great hike near Mt. St. Helens + BC's flawed caribou protection plan, should seawalls protect WA coast from climate change?, reconciliation pole raised in Vancouver, activists want Portland transit to be free, the 10 top bands in PDX right now & a personal essay by Raine Lee.
Get Outside! Coldwater Lake
This gorgeous hike in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is a great place to view the volcano, spot wildflowers and wildlife, and experience the regeneration of forest ecology after the 1980 blast.
Cascadia Daily, June 20, 2019
Listen to the Defining Cascadia panel discussion on the UpZone podcast, OR GOP flees legislature again, debating a ban on homeless camping in Langley, BC, goats to help reduce wildfire risk, a preview of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, & an essay by Shazia Hafiz Ramji.
Cascadia Daily, June 19, 2019
Welcome to Cascadia Magazine's new intern Eun Hye Kim! Plus, reaction to BC pipeline approval, new approaches to increasing vaccine rates, 737MAX jets stacking up in WA, there's poop in Cannon Beach's water, celebrating Juneteenth across Cascadia & poetry by Laura Da'.
Ninety Days
"How to explain the thought of someone not wanting you anymore? How to describe someone erasing you with the same pencil that drew you, leaving only your paws?" Seattle-based writer Corinne Manning's slyly funny work of fiction observes the disorientation and emotional chaos that follows a difficult breakup.
Cascadia Daily, June 19, 2019
How pipelines such as Trans Mountain contribute to crisis of murdered & missing Indigenous women, setback for LGBTQ rights in Oregon court case, a gorgeous new book about the 1,032 species of fish in the Salish Sea, symphonies for a troubled planet, and poetry by Carolyne Wright.
Cascadia Daily, June 14, 2019
Learn how to pitch nonfiction to Cascadia Mag, US senators call out BC mining practices, Portland fails to protect pedestrians, a protest in support of overdose prevention in Fraser Valley, Washington designates abalone for protection, Boise novelist Emily Ruskovich wins big prize & poetry by Joe Wilkins.
Cascadia Daily, June 12, 2019
Salmon would survive in upper Columbia if fish passage created, OR bans plastic bags and allows pot across state lines, will Fraser valley get overdose prevention site?, Spokane needs a new flag, and Kathleen Alcala hunts for geoducks on Bainbridge Island.
Get Outside! Mount Pisgah
Oregon's Mount Pisgah isn't far from Eugene and offers views of the Willamette Valley, pleasant wandering through an oak savanna ecosystem, and abundant wildflowers in late spring and early summer.