Kevin Marsh, author of Drawing Lines in the Forest, appeared on KEXP’s “Mind over Matters Sustainability” segment with Diane Horn in July. To hear his thoughts on forest conservation and the history of the U.S. Forest Service, check out KEXP at http://www.kexp.org/podcasting/podcasting.asp.

Richard Walker’s The Country in the City has received two new outstanding reviews from major media: Orion and Bay Nature. See below:

“Walker makes our landscape come alive as the arena of an ongoing struggle to figure out how to live lightly and well in this remarkable corner of the planet.” –Bay Nature

“The Country in the City is a masterful and much-needed chronicle of the Bay Area’s diverse ecopolitical scene. It is a fruitful serendipity that such a rich and wonderful place has a scholar who, with intelligence and affection, can gracefully capture its green evolution.” –Orion

William D. Layman has won the Washington State Book Award for River of Memory (General Nonfiction). Layman, a resident of Wenatchee, is guest curator of an exhibit of the same name for the Wenatchee Valley Museum.

From the Introduction: “In a sense, two Columbia Rivers flow through our lives - the river we see today and the natural river that gave rise to the spectacular sights and thunderings of such places as Celilo and Kettle Falls. To know either has always presented major challenges. The river’s rugged physical character prevents knowing by slicing through inaccessible mountain ranges, vast stretches of unpopulated roadless areas, and extreme landscapes before emptying into the sea.”

Coll Thrush’s new book Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing Over Place, a Weyerhaeuser title, was featured in the Seattle Times. 

Mary Ann Gwinn, books editor for the Times, called Native Seattle “[A] vivid new book…Native Seattle chronicles the breathtaking and traumatic pace of change Seattle’s Native people have endured, and the resiliency with which they have regrouped and reconstituted themselves…Its meticulous atlas describes the ‘lost’ places of the Indian landscape. But they’re not really lost - they live today under the city’s 21st-century skin.”

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