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Where to hike this weekend: Cowiche Mountain
In addition to journalism, interviews, fiction, and poetry, Cascadia Magazine also offers suggestions for where to get outside in the Pacific Northwest. This week, hiking expert Craig Romano recommends Cowiche Mountain near Yakima, Washington. Click the link and check it out online!
Cowiche Mountain is a lovely walk through the arid shrub-steppe ecosystem of eastern Washington. The hike offers wildflowers, a historic ranch, and tremendous views of Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. It’s desert country, so bring plenty of sunscreen and water.
The weather forecast for this weekend is calling for cloudy skies and cooler temperatures, so it’ll be a great time to visit. Read Craig’s complete guide to Cowiche Mountain Trail online at Cascadia Magazine before you head out.
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Cascadia Magazine original: Why women, why science, why now?
If you haven’t read it yet, check out Sarah E. Myhre’s great essay about how Seattle women scientists are becoming involved in a global movement to work for equity and justice in STEM fields, and to advocate for science-based government policies:
“Maybe we don’t want the masculine, risk-taking, lone-wolf version of scientific inquiry to be the cultural default. Maybe that isn’t the best kind of science we can do. Maybe a careful, collaborative, feminist version of science would be better.”
Washington fruit growers brace for trade war
The Yakima Herald reports on eastern Washington apple and cherry growers who are increasingly concerned with a new trade war with Canada and Mexico, which slapped a 25 percent tariff on apples. Marketplace spoke with a Yakima grower who’s concerned apples will have to be left to rot on trees. And Reuters reports on congressional candidates in rural Washington who are suddenly facing threats to re-election because of the tariffs.
Housing crisis hits Tacoma, Tukwila
Tacoma Weekly has a detailed story on how the housing crisis is making it extremely hard for low-income workers to live in Tacoma, which has a shortage of an estimated 18,000 affordable units. Seattle Globalist has the story of how diverse immigrant businesses in Tukwila, WA are being forced out by a new justice center. The Seattle Times also has some great reporting today about displacement and high housing costs in Tukwila.
How a 21-year-old is among leaders of BC pipeline protest
The Vancouver Sun profiles Hayley Zacks, a 21-year-old environmental activist who has been crucial leader in Vancouver’s protests against the proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Portland prosecutors shared information with ICE
Willamette Week has an investigative report on how Portland prosecutors — despite Oregon’s sanctuary laws — have been sharing information about people in custody with US immigration authorities.
Iconic Portland feminist bookstore closes
OPB reports that In Other Words, a feminist bookshop in Portland for 25 years, is closing its doors. Its owners were finding their mission of intersectionality wasn’t generating enough interest: “Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Capitalism cannot be reformed and ever serve the people,” the owners said in a statement, “Abolition is the goal.”
Bilingual poetry from Lok Fung
Seattle Review of Books has a poem online in Chinese, “Instant Love and Coffee” by Lok Fung, who’s the website’s poet-in-residence this month. If you’re not fluent in Mandarin, no worries–they’ve also included a translation into English by Ellen Goodman:
“最近愛上即溶咖啡
溶掉你 像溶掉我心
Recently I’ve fallen in love with instant coffee dissolving you like dissolving my heart…”
That’s today’s news, arts & culture from across Cascadia. 祝你今晚愉快！ –Andrew Engelson
Photo credit: apple orchardists courtesy of US Dept of Agriculture
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