Last Stands
The remarkable Pacific temperate rainforest has become an endangered landscape, rarer than even the embattled tropical rainforest. In Last Stands, award-winning environmental writer Larry Pynn...
American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation
Environmentalists who believe that hunters and anglers are interested only in the kill and the catch may be surprised to learn that sportsmen were originally...
Water in the West
Water in the West offers a lively primer on the region's most precious and scarce resource. It collects the best reporting on the subject, drawn...
The Oregon Weather Book
Oregonians are nuts for weather. They're hungry for weather news, anecdotes, statistics, trivia, and, of course, forecasts. The Oregon Weather Book will whet Oregonians' insatiable...
The Left Hand of Eden
**Literary Arts Winner Oregon Book Award** This important contribution to the growing debate over the protection of wilderness areas comes from an unusual perspective —...
The Climate of Oregon
Weather is best understood as the state of the atmosphere on a given day or at a given time. Climate, on the other hand, looks...
Diary of a Citizen Scientist
Winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are...
Public Lands, Public Debates
“Watching democracy at work can be bewildering, even frustrating, but the only way individuals and organizations can sift through the often messy business of public...