Living through just one Trump term was like living through a four-year nightmare (imagine what two would have been like). Many of us were scared and wanted saving, but no one really stood up to the monster in order to rescue us. …

I recently returned to Seattle from an eight-day hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and, coming from a rugged and beautiful alpine landscape with almost no people but millions of wildflowers to a city enveloped in the smoke of wildfires and a nation embroiled in almost unfathomable political atrocities, made…

The solution to inequity is not equity, but ubiquity. Ubiquity is total reciprocity. It means care for all living things. It calls on us to consider not how we can grant (or guarantee) equal access to resources for all humans, but rather what all living things need in order to…

This is no modest proposal; it is neither ironic nor absurd. And yet, I do want to start with cannibalism. There are many ways to describe an apocalypse, but in Amerika, eating each other seems to be the favorite. Zombies, marooned families, people lost on islands, eating human flesh seems…

In his excellent and extensive account of the history of the human-salmon relationship in the Pacific Northwest, Mountain in the Clouds, Bruce Brown describes his encounter (in the 70’s) with a “gaffer,” an employee of the Dungeness hatchery, who is engaged in the process of collecting roe from the fall…