Becca Hall captured our town perfectly in her essay “Stump Proud” (HCN, 7/23/12). I am fortunate to live on the opposite side of the Upper Snoqualmie Valley. On my acre and a half, I have some of those old stumps left from the clear-cuts of the early 1900s. In fact, I have 90- and 100-foot-tall […]
Maura T. Callahan
Posted inAugust 25, 2008: Hot Wheels
A spotty future
Regarding your recent barred owl story, it’s hard not to shake my head (HCN, 8/4/08). I wonder how good we will ever be at playing God with the animal kingdom. We shoot ’em, then we bring them back, but only where we want them (buffalo). We trapped them for their fur and took them to […]
Posted inMarch 6, 2006: Save Our Snow
Neither bison nor mustangs are truly free
I was heartened to read that even though Hal Herring called it “hunting” throughout his story of the Yellowstone buffalo, he finally called it what it truly was, an ugly slaughter (HCN, 2/6/06: The Killing Fields). Killing those placid buffalo was no more hunting than going out to the back pasture and plugging your Hereford […]