Conexión con Nuestro Territorio
A hike and conversation in Spanish, presented in partnership with Vámonos Outside and Bend Parks and Recreation District.
En este espacio haremos una actividad de senderismo mientras te invitamos a que converses con otros participantes sobre tu relación con el territorio, y descubras nuevas formas de explorarlo. Conectémonos a través de nuestra cultura y experiencias compartidas. Tendremos alimentación y transporte incluído para quienes lo soliciten. Vámonos Outside estará a cargo de actividades para niños.
Interpretando Nuestro Territorio
A hike and conversation in Spanish presented in partnership with Deschutes Land Trust and Vámonos Outside
Te invitamos a una caminata con tiempos destinados a conversar al aire libre, donde exploraremos nuestra conexión con el territorio y aprenderemos nuevas formas de explorarlo. Descubre los esfuerzos de conservación en Oregon Central del Deschutes Land Trust y conéctate con otros participantes a través de nuestra cultura y experiencias compartidas.
In the Company of Cougars
Carrie Walker writes about navigating fear and awe in the outdoors.
Beyond Plunder
Minal Mistry on how plunder became the basis for our culture economy, and what might replace it.
Pantoum for an Uncertain Future
Poem by Alyssa Ogi
People, Places, Things: The Dalles, Oregon, 1988
A photograph from "Scene Shifting: Photographs from Left of Iowa" by Dan Powell
Collecting Sunrises
Hannah English writes about the many challenges that face seasonal wildlife biologists—and the love of adventure that keeps them going.
Turkeys
Aileen Hymas writes about struggling to raise poultry and live her sustainable farming ideals.
Full Catastrophe Eating, from Soil to Soul
Diane Choplin on experiencing the joys and pains of consuming meat mindfully.
We Will Be Here
Lana Jack writes about the mourning, resilience, and resistance of the Celilo Wy-am.
Trip to Richland
Laura Feldman writes about trying to make sense of a secret history.
The Toxins Beneath Us
Ruby McConnell on the long legacy of groundwater contamination in Oregon
“We Are the Original Conservationists”
Jennifer Perrine writes about Oregonians of color working in the environmental justice movement.
Woksemi
In this video—the first in a series of stories about life in Oregon called Yamatala—filmmaker Ke-As Ne-Asht Sheshatko follows a family on the Klamath Tribes' reservation during Woksemi, or Wokas harvest season.
We're Here for Each Other
Jennifer Perrine writes about how Oregonians of color are building relationships in the outdoors.
Binding Fenrir
What are our responsibilities to wild animals in a human-altered world?
Re-Beavering a Monument
Scientists, activists, and government officials are working to bring beavers back to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Hotter, Drier, and Less Predictable
Amanda Waldroupe writes about how climate change is affecting Oregon's agricultural sector and how some farmers are adapting.
Who Gets to Fight Climate Change?
JL Jiang on navigating climate activism as a second-generation Asian American
Earth and Motherhood
Melissa Matthewson on the wildness that surrounds us.
Sagebrush Solar
Juliet Grable writes about how Lake County is embracing renewable energy.
Climate
Editor Ben Waterhouse writes about choosing the theme "Climate" amid a summer of heat waves and fires.
Burn Down Valley
Theo Whitcomb writes about the 2020 fires in Southern Oregon, cooperative land management efforts, and finding hope for the future.
People, Places, Things
Tabitha Espina remixes the Oregon Department of Energy’s 2020 statement on climate change and energy in Oregon.
Bringing Otters Back to Otter Rock
Heather Wiedenhoft talks with Robert Kentta about how the Elakha Alliance and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are working to return a lost population of sea otters to the Oregon coast.
Can the Land Make Us One People?
An excerpt from Jacqueline Keeler's book Standoff contrasts the standoffs at Malheur and Standing Rock.
People, Places, Things
A photo of the Wood River by Paul Robert Wolf Wilson
Into the Woods
Dionisia Morales writes about what happened when she dragged her her father, a life-long New Yorker, to see the California Redwoods for the first time.
Without a Towel
Dani Nichols writes about the lessons learned during a lifelong battle with water.
Heavy and Hiking
Being big and hiking has its challenges, not least the judgement and impatience of others. But Oregon’s trails were made for me too. An essay by Karina L. Agbisit
Editors' Note: Outside
In this issue, we’ve taken an expansive view of what it means to be outside. In addition to stories about outdoor recreation and who gets to enjoy it, you’ll find stories of living outside, on city streets and amid the woods; stories about leaving the places we feel safe for work and about making new spaces outside the mainstream.
Foremothers of Photography
Raechel Herron Root on how the creative lineage of Southern Oregon’s separatist lesbian lands can help us reimagine the future.
Taking Up Space
Mareshah “MJ” Jackson writes about how the story of Blackness in the outdoors is more than a narrative of tragedy.
Reciprocity of Tradition
Photographer Joe Whittle explores how traditional practices of Native Americans of the Columbia Plateau strengthen communities and preserve connections to the land.
Posts
Readers write about “Union.”
The State That Timber Built—2012
Tara Rae Miner considers what Oregon owes to the struggling timber communities that helped shape the state’s identity in this essay from the 2012 “Here” issue.
Challenging Questions for Oregonians
At the 2019 Portland Book Festival, we asked attendees to share some challenging questions for fellow Oregonians.
Castles Made of Sand
Geologist Ruby McConnell writes about how coastal homeowners' efforts to save their properties from rising sea levels put their neighbors at risk—and how she became responsible for the riprapping of Rockaway Beach.
Bridge City
Anna Vo writes on the dark side of local pride and the changes in our attitude toward place required to make Portland a welcoming home for all.
More Similar than Different
Tricia Gates Brown reflects on rehabilitating a thrush and letting it go
Engagement and Environment
OPAL seeks to bring more voices into conversations about environmental justice.
Out of the Woods
Ruby McConnell on meeting a lost boy in a Cascades forest
Unclaiming the Land
Melissa Madenski writes about leaving her home of forty years and what binds us to the places in our lives.
The Original Laws
Joe Whittle writes about the sacred ethics of Columbia River tribes and how they provide a guide for restoring ecosystems damaged by European colonization.
Posts
Readers write about Harm
A City's Lifeblood
As efforts to clean up Portland Harbor begin, the communities most affected by pollution see a chance to reconnect to the Willamette River. By Julia Rosen
Wonder, Bread
Seeking the sacred in the mundane world. An excerpt from Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore
Not Built for Ghosts
Writer Helen Hill on consequences she faced after leaving her beloved home in the hands of others
Between Ribbon and Root
Hope and a history of tragedy live together in a Cowlitz woman's son. An essay by Christine Dupres
This Way through Oregon
Illustrating the systems that move salmon, waste, traffic, and legislation
Posts
Readers write about Safe
Life's Winter
The opportunities seem endless, but the season is not. An excerpt from Building a Better Nest: Living Lightly at Home and in the World by Evelyn Searle Hess.
The River Fix
Journalist Valerie Rapp on the complexities of dam removal
Gone Astray
A humanitarian aid worker in Sri Lanka finds herself caught up in a race to harvest the tusks of a dead elephant.
Epigenetics and Equity
Zip code may be more important than genetic code when it come's to determining a person's health. A film produced by Dan Sadowsky for Oregon Humanities.
Before You Know It
Your health may be determined by stresses experienced by your great-grandparents. How does this change how we plan for the future?
Origin Stories
The surprising beginnings of six of Oregons claims to fame
This Land Planned for You and Me
J. David Santen Jr. on what Oregon's communities look like forty years after the passage of Senate Bill 100
In-Between Place
Brian Doyle argues that life in the suburbs is far from the bland prison it is made out to be.
Belonging and Connection
Bette Lynch Husted on imperfect small-town life in Pendleton.
On the River
Debra Gwartney on learning to love the isolation of her adopted home on the McKenzie River.
Why We Stay
Monica Drake on raising a family in an urban neighborhood instead of a more serene but less vibrant rural place.
Water Wars
Journalist J. David Santen Jr. on how battles, compromises, and resolutions abound in a state flush with water.
A Region by Any Name
From Ecotopia to Cascadia Megaregion, visions of the Pacific Northwest have been secessionist in nature. An essay by Carl Abbott
Home Economics
Using the house to bridge the public/private divide.
Where We Live Now
Abandoning the tragedy of the city for a new way of thinking and talking about place. An essay by Matthew Stadler
What Remains
A search for the site of a notorious massacre in Hells Canyon
Distance as an Illusion
John Yeon and the landscape arts of China and Japan. An essay by Kevin Nute