Features
Mount St. Helens—the Perfect Laboratory :: It is impossible to accept the immensity of Mount St. Helens and the effect of its catastrophic 1980 eruption unless you are able to stand beneath the enormous crater on the pumice plain and listen to John Bishop talk about lupines.
Lonely, Beautiful, and Threatened—Willapa Bay :: Willapa Bay is the largest estuary between San Francisco and Puget Sound. It boasts one of the least-spoiled environments and the healthiest salmon runs south of Canada. It produces one in every four oysters farmed in the United States and is a favorite stop for tens of thousands of migratory birds. And it's in trouble.
Extreme Diveristy—in Soap Lake :: Soap Lake is surrounded by dark shores, sheer rock walls, a primeval landscape. Its waters have long been thought by some to cure certain maladies. It is also home to strange, hardy organisms that live nowhere else.
Keith Lincoln, Barn Builder :: Over 25 years at Washington State University, alumni director Keith Lincoln built many things, including friendships and a place where alums can go to sit in the shade.
Panoramas
:: On the origin of species—again
:: Architecture from the weapons of war
:: Author Sherman Alexie receives Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award
Departments
:: A SENSE OF PLACE: The last roses of summer
:: PERSPECTIVE: High-stakes tests—what do they tell us?
:: SEASONS/SPORTS: Golfer Kim Welch
:: SEASONS/SPORTS: Basketball's Marcus Moore
Tracking
Cover: Ecologist John Bishop has followed the reestablishment of life on Mount St. Helens's pumice plain. Read the story here. Photograph by Robert Hubner.
