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A 2024 Oregon Book Award Finalist

From the gray whale to the western bumble bee, discover the flora and fauna that call the Pacific Northwest home—and the challenges they must face to endure.


Reconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose.  In her debut work, Josephine Woolington turns back the clock to review the events that have challenged Pacific Northwest wildlife in an effort to provide a deeper sense of place. Only then can we imagine how these imperious effects might be overcome.

Join Woolington as she sheds light on the diverse species whose populations are slowly declining from the lands, seas, and skies of the Pacific Northwest. Only by acknowledging this truth can we understand that our impact on the Earth is deeper and far more significant than we ever imagined. Through interviews with local educators, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and artists from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the Haida Nation, the Yakama Nation, the Makah Tribe, and beyond, we are invited to decenter our singular perspective in favor of a more empathic, collective approach.

The flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest are resilient. As they adapt to a world far removed from its wonders, we must realize our own interconnectedness to nature and to one another. Woolington colors the rich history of the Pacific Northwest within the eye of its beholder so that society can learn to live intentionally in the land that sustains us all. From the coastal tailed frog to the sandhill crane, the yellow-cedar to the camas flower, these stories reimagine what it means to live mindfully in the colorful region we call home.

ISBN-13: 9781947845367

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Ooligan Press

Publication Date: 11-15-2022

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Josephine Woolington is a writer, musician, and educator. She previously worked at several newspapers in Oregon, where her work was read by both regional and national audiences via The Associated Press. During her time at The Register-Guard in Eugene, she received an award for best education coverage from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. In addition to journalism, she’s a musician and music educator. She’s toured nationally and internationally with different artists, and she writes, records, and performs her own music as well. She earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Oregon in journalism and political science and received the school’s highest award for excellence in journalism. Her artistic, mindful perspective and curiosity about all living things guide her creative endeavors. She lives in her hometown of Portland with her love and their fur child, Gladys the cat. Follow her musings on Instagram @josephine_antoinette_, and on Twitter @j_woolington. Ramon Shiloh has volunteered at educationally focused nonprofit organizations for almost three decades. As a writer, artist, and instructor, he curates thoughtful insights, teaches analytic skills and applied knowledge, and distributes tools relative to the creative mediums of art, food sovereignty, writing, and spoken word. Shiloh focuses many of his efforts on supporting Indigenous children. He uses his knowledge of food, art, and culture to help Native youth develop a connection to good health and their histories, in our ever-changing world. Shiloh resides in Portland.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Spring

Camas, Ant'ip, Camassia 5

Sandhill Crane, Grus canadensis 23

Yellow-Cedar, Sgalaan, Callitropsis nootkatensis 39

Summer

Western Bumble Bee, Bombus occidentalis 64

Coastal Tailed Frog, Ascaphus truei 83

Huckleberry, Wiwnu, Vaccinium membranaceum 97

Olympic Marmot, Marmota olympus 119

Fall

Moss 141

Clouds 163

Winter

Gray Whale, Sih-xwah-wiX, Eschrichtius robustus 180

Gratitude 215

Bibliography 219