Hike Washington's Mount McCausland + man who sought sanctuary in Seattle for over a year detained by ICE, can cities in WA charge an income tax?, slow progress at a Native American boarding school in OR, eagles take a video selfie on Haida Gwaii, and a poem translated by Seattle's Don Mee Choi.
This trail to a summit in Washington's Henry M. Jackson Wilderness offers phenomenal views of Lichtenberg Mountain, Lake Valhalla, Glacier Peak, and the spires of the Wild Sky Wilderness.
Big thumbs up for a high-speed rail network across Cascadia, US company pleads guilty in BC oil spill case, conservative media buys up local papers in southern OR, surprising support in Idaho for dam removal, Ashli Akins on keeping hopeful as an activist and a review of Ian Williams' new novel.
British Columbia poet Howard White's poem is a vivid appreciation of notched old-growth stumps and the silent legacy of logging and previous generations they represent.
California quakes a wake-up call for Cascadia, working to counter WA's increasing youth suicide rate, Canadian Intelligence spied on BC pipeline protesters, the risks to Indigenous women from "man camps," Portland's "Drammys" awarded, & poetry by Elisa Chavez.
BC will have a new national park, & Cascadia Magazine has a hike you can take there. + Oregon is ignoring tsunami risk, Seattle's (sort of) plan for homeless living in vehicles, WA poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna on the trauma of immigration, and a review of a new collection of writing about Salish Sea islands.
The centerpiece of a proposed new national park reserve in British Columbia's South Okanagan Valley, Mount Kobau is a relatively easy hike to a summit that offers superlative views of peaks in BC and Washington.
Paul Lask wins the first award for journalism at Cascadia Magazine, Vancouver is getting even more expensive, harder WA sales tax exemptions for OR residents, a BC First Nation fights a new mine, an exhibit of forgeries in Vancouver, and an essay by Amy Fung.
Cascadia Magazine investigation into US Navy pollution in Puget Sound + harsh realities of Seattle's aging homeless population, protecting a deepwater ecosystem off Vancouver Island, Justin Huertas' great new musical: The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion & poetry by Erika Brumett.
Environmental groups, the state of Washington and tribes are holding the US Navy accountable for dumping toxic copper into Puget Sound. Scraping of the hull of a decommissioned aircraft carrier dumped tons of paint into Sinclair Inlet, which could impact salmon and other sea life.
