January 12, 2013
Winter seems like a quiet, dormant time in the natural areas of the Pacific Northwest. In many ways it is– in winter, the songbirds, frogs, and insects that make such a racket in summer are either hibernating, in another country for the season, or keeping a vow of silence. The deciduous trees are leafless and skeletal, and a blanket of gray clouds covers everything. But the months of December, January, and February are actually boisterous times in and around the valley wetlands of western Washington…
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December 2, 2012
When a Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) wakes up in the evening, high up among the thick boughs of an ancient Douglas Fir, does it start to worry about the fate of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest? Does it get stressed about how much it is despised by people in the timber industry? Probably not. I imagine that…
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