Puyallup tribal members led by elder and culture director Connie McCloud are harvesting sacred cedar on their ancestral lands for the first time in years. “Our reservation has become so urbanized and ...

Modified trees found all over the Northwest in towns, along highways, in forests, even housing developments, are connections that interweave generations of the region’s first people as tightly as a ...

Six years have passed since Bruce Albert witnessed the sudden, inexplicable death of a dozen Western red cedars on his property. The trees fell victim to a nameless culprit in the span of a single ...

Just before the first snow, I went for a walk in the woods near our house. It’s a damp and mossy mixed wood full of the usual suspects: cedar, white pine, balsam, birch, beech, the occasional maple ...

Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead "Tree of Life." Its foliage, normally soft and green, is tough and brown or missing altogether. Nonetheless, the tree’s reddish bark, ...