Listen to the Defining Cascadia panel discussion on the UpZone podcast, OR GOP flees legislature again, debating a ban on homeless camping in Langley, BC, goats to help reduce wildfire risk, a preview of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, & an essay by Shazia Hafiz Ramji.
Welcome to Cascadia Magazine's new intern Eun Hye Kim! Plus, reaction to BC pipeline approval, new approaches to increasing vaccine rates, 737MAX jets stacking up in WA, there's poop in Cannon Beach's water, celebrating Juneteenth across Cascadia & poetry by Laura Da'.
How pipelines such as Trans Mountain contribute to crisis of murdered & missing Indigenous women, setback for LGBTQ rights in Oregon court case, a gorgeous new book about the 1,032 species of fish in the Salish Sea, symphonies for a troubled planet, and poetry by Carolyne Wright.
Learn how to pitch nonfiction to Cascadia Mag, US senators call out BC mining practices, Portland fails to protect pedestrians, a protest in support of overdose prevention in Fraser Valley, Washington designates abalone for protection, Boise novelist Emily Ruskovich wins big prize & poetry by Joe Wilkins.
Salmon would survive in upper Columbia if fish passage created, OR bans plastic bags and allows pot across state lines, will Fraser valley get overdose prevention site?, Spokane needs a new flag, and Kathleen Alcala hunts for geoducks on Bainbridge Island.
Cascadia Magazine's first journalism award! + Harm reduction saved 3,000 lives in BC, Oregon passes campaign finance limits, WA to seek consent from tribes, Seattle seawall helping migrating salmon, an interview with Seattle author Richard Chiem, and a profile of Seattle band Tacocat.
Canuck the Crow is a father, feds change rules that could affect Hanford cleanup, will new regs squeeze out small BC cannabis growers?, getting rainbow trout out of the South Fork Snake River, why who you buy John Okada's novel from matters, and a Eugene artist who works with animal bones.
New poetry from Shin Yu Pai, violence against Indigenous women is "genocide," bike & pedestrian death on rise in WA, fishing practices are choking BC glass sponges, drama awards in Vancouver and Portland, poetry by Katy Elis, and more...
Seattle poised to make it easier to build backyard cottages, drawing attention to BC's murdered Indigenous women, what's up with 5G & Huawei?, battling northern pike to save Columbia River salmon, McKenzie Bezos to give away a lot of money, and BC poet Roy Miki's long career.
Mixed news on homelessness, BC opioid epidemic hitting Indigenous people hard, OR passes difficult bill to fix pension system, wildfire smoke has already arrived in Cascadia, can WA's pygmy rabbits avoid extinction, building robots to fight patriarchy, & poetry by Laura Read.
