Harvest Wobblies
Increased Mechanization and the expansion of new markets transformed the face of American farming in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in the...
Accidental Gravity
The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach’s Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild...
Grass Roots
Marijuana legalization is unfolding across the American West, but cultivation of the cannabis plant is anything but green. Unregulated outdoor grows are polluting ecosystems, high-powered...
The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett
Few people in the nineteenth-century American West could boast the achievements of Peter Burnett. He helped organize the first major wagon train to the Oregon...
Struggle on the North Santiam
A sixty-mile forested corridor stretching from the Willamette Valley to the Cascade mountains, Oregon’s North Santiam Canyon is like many other marginalized places in the...
The Environmental Politics & Policy of Western Public Lands
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and often contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a...
All the Leavings
In this nonlinear, loosely chronological memoir, Laurie Easter deftly navigates the rugged terrain of living off the grid in rural southern Oregon, along with the...
White Poplar, Black Locust
Growing up in one of the West’s last company lumber towns, a small community called Hilt on the California-Oregon border, Louise Wagenknecht witnessed the dying...