Hops
The craft brewing renaissance of recent decades has brought a renewed interest in hops. These vigorous vines with their flavorful flowers have long played an...
The View from Cascade Head
Cascade Head, on the Oregon Coast between Lincoln City and Neskowin, has stunning ocean views, abundant recreational opportunities, and a rich history of ecological research...
Storm Beat
Journalist Lori Tobias arrived on the Oregon Coast in 2000. After freelancing from Newport for several years, she signed on to the Oregonian as a...
rough house
Tina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving logging trucks for her family’s operation, and her...
Never Leaving Laramie
John Haines spent the better part of the 1980s and 1990s traveling the world: biking through Tibet, kayaking the length of the Niger River, taking...
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...
Clifford Gleason
Clifford Gleason (1913-1978), who grew up in Salem and spent his adult life in both Salem and Portland, was a talented and highly original artist...
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...