Columbia Highlands: Exploring Washington’s Last Frontier

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The wonderful thing about the Columbia Highlands is subtle. It’s measured by rays of sunlight filtering through a cathedral forest of ancient pines; a golden hillside teeming with deer; in the soft breezes that whistle through shiny snags. It’s cherished for its vastness, its lack of human intervention, its rejuvenating properties, and its abundant flora and fauna.

Columbia Highlands is a portrait of this-little known corner of the American West. It reveals its function as the most important flora and fauna bridge between the Rockies and the Cascades for animals–including wolves, bears, moose, and lynx–who should roam to live to tell the tale. It reveals the surprising coalition of people–hunters, hikers, loggers, business owners, Native people, and more–united in their love of the land and working to give protection to and restore it. Theirs is a new roughly conservation plan, one that preserves the health of the ecosystem at the same time as sustaining a viable rural economy and way of life. The Columbia Highlands Initiative calls for a long-term plan for restoration, conservation, sustainable forestry, and for designating one of the vital first new wilderness areas in the state since 1984.

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