'Nature in the Balance': a gallery

A baker's dozen of pictures from an exhibition highlighting the Northwest's relationship with nature.
A baker's dozen of pictures from an exhibition highlighting the Northwest's relationship with nature.

"Nature in the Balance" is an exhibit of 150 years worth of photographs and paintings that document how the people of the Northwest (mostly Washington) have interacted with nature since settlement. It's showing at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) through Sunday, Sept. 9. a collection MOHAI's curator of photography, Howard Giske, has assembled an amazing and varied array of images – some locked away for many years, others reproduced on a scale that allows you peer into landscapes, longhouses, and bunkhouses of the past.

I've collected a baker's dozen of "Nature in the Balance" images. I've also written an essay about the exhibit.

1. Sacred grove?

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Knute Berger

Knute Berger

Knute “Mossback” Berger is Crosscut's Editor-at-Large.