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    / February 27, 2024
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    / January 23, 2024
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    / February 22, 2024
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    WA health officials throw away millions of pandemic supplies

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    / February 23, 2024
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        Equity

        Low-income domestic violence survivors still lack support in WA

        While the state has expanded its full protection-order policies, advocates say funding for housing, shelters and legal services is still needed.

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        • Kelsey Turner
        InvestigateWest
        / July 4, 2023
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        Mossback's Northwest

        Druid on the Columbia

        Sam Hill built a “castle” on the Columbia, and later a replica of Stonehenge.

        May 26, 2023
        Knute Berger (Mossback) in the Mossback Den.
        Mossback

        Mossback’s Northwest: A Stonehenge replica on the Columbia River

        An eccentric railroad millionaire was inspired to build the mysterious monument over 100 years ago.

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        • Knute Berger
        / May 26, 2023
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        Mossback's Northwest

        Nature Man

        In the early 1900s, two men decided to go back-to-nature and become “Nature Man.”

        May 12, 2023
        Knute Berger is in the Mossback Den.
        Mossback

        Mossback’s Northwest: Before Woodstock, there were the ‘Nature Men’

        Two eccentrics with Northwest ties turned their (unclothed) backs on civilization and made headlines.

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        • Knute Berger
        / May 12, 2023
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        Mossback's Northwest

        Lights, Camera, Seattle!

        How Hollywood filmed the Emerald City.

        May 5, 2023
        Knute Berger in the Mossback's Den.
        Mossback

        Mossback’s Northwest: The Emerald City’s silver screen legacy

        Since the 1930s, Hollywood has fixated on Seattle's complex nature, from its stunning mountains and oceans to sprawling freight yards.

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        • Knute Berger
        / May 5, 2023
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        Inside Crosscut

        Meet the Seattle storytellers spotlighting local Black artists

        Black Arts Legacies celebrates Northwest creatives through writing, photography and film. Learn how this year’s team is bringing the project to life.

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        • Nimra Ahmad
        / May 3, 2023
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        Mossback’s Northwest: After clearing forests, settlers were stumped

        The remains of felled trees could be a nuisance — or a dream home.

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        • Knute Berger
        / April 28, 2023
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        Mossback's Northwest

        After clearing forests, settlers were stumped

        The remains of felled trees could be a nuisance — or a dream home.

        April 28, 2023
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        Environment

        Can the United Nations help save Pacific salmon?

        The U.N. High Seas Treaty is a historic agreement for marine conservation, but its impact on the plummeting fish population is still uncertain.

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        High Country News
        / April 24, 2023
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        Mossback's Northwest

        The Case of the Pickled Orca

        In 1931, an orca swam up the Columbia River to Portland and wound up pickled.

        April 14, 2023
        Knute Berger in the Mossback Den.
        Mossback

        Mossback's Northwest: How Portland pickled a lost orca

        In 1931, a baby whale swam up the Columbia and wound up buried on a Washington mountain. Sound like Northwest lore? Well, it's true.

        by / April 14, 2023
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        Environment

        Podcast | How a wayward whale foretold decades of exploitation

        People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside.

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        • Knute Berger &
        • Stephen Hegg
        / April 14, 2023
        Knute Berger sits in the Mossback Den.
        Mossback

        Mossback's Northwest: How the New Deal dealt our region a new hand

        Washington is still impacted by the 1933 decision, which brought the West from the frontier period into a new, modern century.

        by
        • Knute Berger
        / April 7, 2023
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