Keyword(s): Adam M. Sowards
The North Cascades ecosystem includes diverse forests shaped by natural processes and human history. Indigenous peoples have used the forests for millennia, employing cultural fire and harvesting vari...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and drastically changed the surrounding environment. Despite the devastation to plant, animal, and human communities, ecological recovery developed over ...
Pacific salmon have long symbolized the Northwest’s natural abundance and form a cornerstone of the region's culture and economy. Environmental and economic changes since the nineteenth century ...
Washington's forests changed during the nineteenth century. When the century began, forests dominated most of the region. They were homelands for diverse and sovereign Indigenous nations whose recipro...
On June 30, 1962, delegates to the First World Conference on National Parks convene at Seattle's Olympic Hotel to begin a seven-day conference attended by hundreds of government officials and conserva...
On August 5, 1967, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas leads a protest against the Kennecott Copper Corporation, which has announced plans to develop an open-pit copper mine in the Glacier P...
On August 26, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signs into law the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Act. Along with several cosponsors, U.S. Representative Don Bonker, a Democrat who repre...
On April 22, 1989, Earth Day, the Ancient Forest Rescue Expedition launches from Pike Place Market. Mitch Friedman, a young environmentalist, gives a speech to a crowd calling for a slowdown of the lo...
On December 21, 1994, President Bill Clinton announces the Northwest Forest Plan has met legal standards. "The plan approved today will provide for a sustainable level of timber harvesting, while prot...
On November 13, 1998, Congress authorizes the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative, an innovative grassroots and voluntary approach to marine conservation for northern Puget Sound and the ...