Leah Sottile is one of the key documenters of the rise of the far right in the Northwest. Presently, at least in Oregon, this has manifested itself in the insane.
The idiot Oregon rednecks tried to secede and join Idaho has gotten a bunch of play all of a sudden, first with a CNN piece and now from the Times..
I can't express enough disgust at the rural Oregonians who want to join Idaho. This is like Texans wanting to join Oklahoma or anyone wanting to join Mississippi. It's just.
Northwestern timber interests remain bitter about the protection of the northern spotted owl. It's all pretty ridiculous. Not only is there only tiny pockets of unprotected old growth timber left,.
The story of the Puget Sound orca carrying around her dead calf for over 2 weeks is incredibly sad and moved a lot of people. That pod of orcas, one.
In the West, legal decisions to protect animals instead of allowing for the unregulated exploitation of the natural world continue to outrage already profitable industries. Never mind that the protection.
Having started my annual summer trip to see family in the Pacific Northwest, it's incredibly depressing to see what's happening to the climate and thus the ecology of the place.
There's a lot of weird wildlife management going on in the Pacific Northwest. First, you have the killing of barred owls in order to save spotted owls. The barred owls.
