Recreation / Outdoors

The dispute over an event at West Seattle's Lincoln Park unleashes a "cycle" of anger. Once again, parks make good battlefields.

Completing an Ironman, virtually

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 6 a.m.

By Himanee Gupta-Carlson

At more than 140 miles spread among three events, the Ironman race is a huge feat to pull off all at once. But what if you could spread out the pain over a week?

This camp is your camp

Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.

Using a state pilot project, the Cascade Land Conservancy has made it possible to preserve historic Hidden Valley Camp for future generations. It's more than a win for holding back sprawl, it also saves an incubator of the Northwest's conservation ethic.

Shiga's Garden: fittingly, a story of sunshine and cooperation

Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.

By Judy Lightfoot

Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.

Bracing lessons for Northwest fisheries ... from the Northeast

Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.

Newfoundland went centuries believing it could never exhaust its abundance of cod. Until it did. A reflection from the waters of Vashon Island and Mistaken Point.

The classic ferries that got away

Posted Fri, Sep 11, 6 a.m.

By Scott St. Clair

The state should have found a way to save its 1927-vintage Steel Electric-class boats, ultimately sold to Mexico for scrap. Sinking one to create artificial reefs for divers, as B.C. has done, was one big missed opportunity.

We need to enlarge the 'American Alps'

Posted Thu, Aug 13, 6 a.m.

By Ken Wilcox

When the North Cascades National Park was created in 1968, key lands were left out for reasons that no longer apply. There's a new push to add to the wildlands.

A model for the Duwamish in Quebec?

Posted Tue, Jul 28, 6 a.m.

By Catherine Brewster

You can go for a gorgeous ramble along the St. Charles River in Quebec City and get lost in thoughts of how Seattle might pull off something similar.

Climbing Rainier: Once is enough

Posted Tue, Jul 21, 6:03 a.m.

By Gardiner Davis

The author's toes still ache, 22 years later. And there was that Volkswagen-sized boulder speeding down the slope at 80 miles an hour.

Save that old firehouse at Magnuson Park

Posted Fri, Jul 17, 6 a.m.

By Kathryn Rogers Merlino

An architect counts the ways, environmental, economic, and architectural, for avoiding the wrecking ball now aimed at Building 18.

Big, cold-hearted river

Posted Fri, Jul 10, 6 a.m.

By Gardiner Davis

The normally benign Methow suddenly shows its killing power

Tracking down the right tool

Posted Thu, Jun 4, 6 a.m.

A search for a well-made scythe leads to an appreciation of the great toolmakers who lived here 13,000 years ago.

Is it finally Spring?

Posted Fri, Apr 17, 6 a.m.

Mossback finds it hard to let go of winter, when it's easiest to get in touch with Northwest nature

Back to the drawing board on spotted owls

Posted Fri, Apr 17, 6 a.m.

A new administration signals yet another deep examination about how to save forest habitats for endangered spotted owls. After decades of studies and litigation and administrative maneuvers, are we any closer to a solution?

The lasting impact of the New Deal's CCC

Posted Fri, Apr 10, 6 a.m.

By Brian D'Ambrosio

A new book looks at one spectacular legacy in the Colorado Plateau

The Cascadian Dream

Posted Thu, Apr 9, 6 a.m.

Can a Pacific Northwest utopia be shaped on the shared belief that nature is sacred? This latest installment in a series on regional identity looks at the patron saint of the environmental movement, John Muir, and how his thinking informs the desire for a new, greener, and elusive entity some call Cascadia.

Muddy waters of the Salish Sea

Posted Fri, Mar 27, 6 a.m.

A new name for the Northwest waters could be a setback for those charged with cleaning up Puget Sound. On the other hand, maybe a fresh start is what's needed.

The Bush court sets back environmental litigation

Posted Mon, Mar 9, 6 a.m.

While Obama is undoing some Bush rules on endangered species, the Supreme Court renders a verdict that could be a serious blow to future environmental lawsuits.

A desert town's dusty soul

Posted Fri, Feb 27, 6 a.m.

A feisty newspaper that carried on the Edward Abbey tradition in Moab, Utah, is closing. It's a sign, along with too much good coffee, of change in the West.