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May

14

2018

Saving Tarboo Creek

Saving Tarboo Creek by Scott Freeman

Regional environmentalism and approachable science. So well-written, I felt like I was right there planting a tree or watching a salmon spawn. The Freemans do a wonderful job reminding us that we can make a difference — a little at a time. –Melissa DeMotte, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID When nice weather comes, you can get out into nature …

May

1

2013

1

remark

Soak the Map in Rain:
Capturing the Olympic Peninsula

The desire to write about a place begins to register in the bones long before the writing happens.  A subconscious need to write about the Olympic Peninsula began to grow in me, arose from experiences of the place, for some time before I ever tried to write about it: The immense silence of the old …

Feb

18

2011

West of Here by Jonathan Evison

“I love a good Northwest novel. This one is set in the fictional town of Port Bonita on the Olympic Peninsula and intercuts stories from two time periods, 1890 and 2006, each with its own cast of fascinating Northwest characters. Wonderfully funny in spots, it nonetheless asks serious questions about our relationship to the land, …

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