Miller Botanical GardenTucked away in a quiet suburb of Seattle, this garden was was carved out of native woodland on a rocky slope overlooking Puget Sound.Earth Meets Art in SeattleSeattle's Olympic Sculpture Park is a sophisticated urban green space featuring 80,000 mostly Northwest plants. ...
Adding to natural patterns are the local impacts of human-caused global climate change. Recent decades have brought higher temperatures and lower snowpack to the Pacific Northwest. As temperatures rise, evaporative demand (loss of water from the ground to the air) rises as well. This impacts fore...
British Columbia, and northern California through beautiful clear photographs accompanied by the family, scientific and common names, flowering seasons, and size of each plant, as well as a range map. This comprehensive field guide also features introductory chapters on the native landscape, plant hab...
Elise Krohn is passionate about her relationship with plants. As an herbalist, native foods specialist, educator, and author, she empowers others in gathering and using wild foods and medicines. Her 22 years of experience includes teaching, clinical practice, developing educational resources, and coo...
THE MARITIME Pacific Northwest boasts a nearly ideal climate that supports a rich diversity of native flora and fauna. The region stretches from northern California to Alaska. Its eastern boundaries are the northern Rockies, the Cascades, and the Klamath Mountains, and it is characterized by mild,...
The evidence of this is by no means overwhelming, and in fact, evidence for just the opposite is more compelling. It is very likely that people were moving across the Pacific Ocean prior even to European knowledge of the Western hemishpere.Sam Cox...
The Pacific Northwest faces two stark choices for managing its forests, scientists suggest in a new book. One choice leads to stagnant or declining rural communities and risks to some native species, and the other leads to environmental benefits and increases in employment. ...
Polypodium glycyrrhiza, our native licorice fern, cover every limb on many of the giant old maples (Acer macrophyllum) in the Park. In November, the Pacific Northwest experienced a Bomb Cyclone storm. Much of the debris from the high winds has been cleaned up but evidence remains of its powe...
TFRI. 1989. A list of native plants of Fushan Experimental Forest. Taipei: Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. 31 p. Tsai CJ, Lin TC, Howng JL, Lin NH, Wang CP, Hamburg SP. 2009. Typhoon impacts on stream water chemistry in a plantation and an adjacent natural forest in central Taiwan...
Seattle Art Museum (SAM): Browse an impressive collection of art from around the world, including contemporary pieces and Indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest. Kerry Park: Capture stunning photos of the Seattle skyline and Mount Rainier from this small park on Queen Anne Hill. Ballard Locks ...