Washelli Cemetery, located on the land that is now Volunteer Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, served as Seattle's municipal cemetery from 1884 to 1887. The name Washelli was understood at ...
Brian Boyle has worked as a mettallurgic engineer, miner, county commissioner, university professor, environmental consultant, and for 12 years (1981-1993) was the Commissioner of Public Lands of Wash...
Cindy Mitchell is the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Director of Public Affairs at the Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) in Olympia. In this May 2025 interview with HistoryLink&rsquo...
Cody Desautel (b. 1977) is the executive director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and president of the Intertribal Timber Council. He has worked his entire career for the Colvil...
Finn Wilcox (b. 1953) ran away from his Klamath Falls, Oregon, home, at the age of 16 to ride freight trains and pursue his dream of becoming a poet. He found his way to Port Townsend in the early 197...
Gary Morishima (b. 1944) has served as Technical Advisor for Natural Resources to the President of the Quinault Indian Nation, since 1978, after establishing the tribe's forestry program. Morishima wa...
Gene Duvernoy (b. 1952) is the President Emeritus of Forterra (formerly known as the Cascade Land Conservancy), an organization that has helped to conserve more than 275,000 acres of land in Washingt...
Guy Capoeman (b. 1969) is a canoe carver and President of the Quinault Tribe. In this June 2025 interview with HistoryLink's Elisa Law, Capoeman discusses the interconnected relationship between the Q...
In May 2025, HistoryLink's Jill Freidberg interviewed journalists John Hughes and Doug Barker together about their experience as reporters and editors at the The Daily World, in Aberdeen, before,...
Lynn Miner (b. 1951) is a retired physicist who has spent the last 30 years rehabilitating a former dairy farm into a healthy 100-acre forest in the foothills north of Chewelah (Stevens County) with h...
Margaret "Kit" Ellis (b. 1945) manages the 195-acre Ellis Family Forest near Gig Harbor. The forest is on the same land that her mother purchased in 1956, when Kit was 11 years old. Ellis learned abou...
Mitch Friedman founded Conservation Northwest in Bellingham in 1989 and serves today [2024] as its executive director. With a stated mission to "protect, connect and restore wildlands and wildlif...
In addition to her many accomplishments in Washington state, Sally Jewell served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. In nominating Jewell for the post, Pr...
Tim McNulty (b. 1949), an award-winning poet, essayist, nature writer, and conservation activist, has lived on the Olympic Peninsula since 1972 and remains influential in the Northwest environmental c...
Lowell Thomas “Toby” Murray III (b. 1953) served as the president and CEO of the Murray Pacific Corporation from 2001 to 2017. Murray Pacific is a family-owned timber business founded by L...
Vicki Christiansen served as the nineteenth Chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 2018 until 2021, leading efforts to sustainably manage national forests and grasslands while addressing climate change...
The Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) was established in 1908, and for its first 50 years was known as the Washington Forest Fire Association (WFFA). The WFFA grew quickly in its early y...
The Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) was incorporated on April 6, 1908, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008. For its first 50 years the association was known as the Washington ...
The Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) was established on April 6, 1908, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008. For its first 50 years the Association was known as the Washington F...
The Northwest's system of roads and highways did not evolve easily. At the turn of the twentieth century, few roads were paved or even improved and county projects were not coordinated with one anothe...
Washington Hall, located at 153 14th Avenue in Seattle's Squire Park neighborhood, began its life as the headquarters of Lodge No. 29 of the Danish Brotherhood in America, a fraternal organization. Lo...
This is a talk given by Brewster Denny (1924-2013) to the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington on November 2, 1996. Brewster Denny was the great grandson of Seattle pioneer Arthur Denny...
Few plants have played as essential a role in the ecology and economy of Washington as the Douglas fir. Long cherished by Native people, who used every part of the tree, Douglas firs were firewood, to...
The eminent African American sculptor and painter James Washington Jr. was a leading member of the Northwest School. He grew up in Mississippi. After working as a WPA artist, he came to the Puget Soun...