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Make Love, Not War: Rethinking Our Relationship with ‘Invasive’ Species

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025 by John Yunker

I was once told that a weed is simply a plant out of place. Indeed, one person’s weed may be another person’s precious resource. In Love Them to Death: Turning …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, PNW, Sustainability

Unintended Unsplash: The surprising journeys of animal photographs

July 6, 2024 by John Yunker

A few years ago, I was standing alongside Bear Creek, a small waterway in Southern Oregon, camera in hand, when a river otter approached. I captured the photo, thrilled to …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Birds, Conservation, Ecology, Essays, Hunting, PNW

Book Review: Vegan Minded: Becoming a Steward for Animals, People, and the Planet

January 1, 2024 by John Yunker

It’s not often that I come across books with ‘vegan’ in the title — particularly now that ‘plant-based’ has become the less controversial, more mainstream alternative. Yet I still prefer …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, PNW, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: Skylab: The Nature of Building

December 6, 2023 by John Yunker

What does it mean to be an architect in the Anthropocene? This is the question that attracts me to books about building reuse and earth architecture as well as writings …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Nonfiction, PNW, Sustainability, What we're reading

Environmental Armageddon in Cannabis Country

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 by Ron Halvorson

“An ideological descendant of the Gold Rush, the green rush serves as yet another get-rich-quick fantasy founded on the erasure of Native People …aptly named the green rush, this surge …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Plants, PNW, University of Washington Press

Book Review: The wildflowers and mushrooms of North America

December 28, 2023June 29, 2023 by John Yunker

The wildflowers are in bloom here in Oregon. And while I love coming across them on hikes I’m mostly clueless about what exactly each flower is. I consult the iNaturalist …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, Plants, PNW, What we're reading

Book Review: The Gatekeeper of America’s Seasons: Edwin Way Teale’s four iconic environmental books

December 28, 2023June 24, 2023 by Ron Halvorson

Author Edwin Way Teale, a somewhat forgotten naturalist extraordinaire, was a pleasing lyrical writer who followed the seasons across America in cross-country car trips with his wife Nellie four times …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Plants, PNW, Trees

Eco-Activism 101: Not on My Watch

January 26, 2022January 8, 2022 by John Yunker

Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon by Alexandra Morton Guest book review by Gene Helfman. A colleague of mine, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, PNW, Sustainability

One Long River of Song

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

Notes on Wonder By Brian Doyle Little, Brown and Co, 2019 During that small window of time this year when it seemed safe enough to travel abroad, this book was …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Nonfiction, PNW, What we're reading

Windfall Journal submissions open for PNW poets

June 27, 2021 by John Yunker

Windfall Journal is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2021 issue: We’re looking for poetry that captures the spirit of any particular place in the Pacific Northwest. It might be …

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