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To Think Like a Mountain

Environmental Challenges in the American West

By: Niels Sparre Nokkentved

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To Think Like a Mountain

Environmental Challenges in the American West

By: Niels Sparre Nokkentved

In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and streams and wetland ecosystems deteriorated. Though most mining ceased by the late 1920s, water running from the Pacific Mine nearly a century later still carried ten times the lead level standard set by the federal Clean Water Act. Where grazing depleted native bunchgrasses, fire-prone cheatgrass grew in its place. Migrating from Idaho streams, salmon once reached the ocean in ten to fourteen days. Now it takes fifty or more. In 2016, a snowstorm blew a flock of snow geese off course. They landed on contaminated water, and about three thousand died. Author Niels S. Nokkentved takes a fresh look at environmental challenges affecting Northwest residents. His essays examine cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to watersheds from abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the northern Rocky Mountains, the lingering effects of livestock grazing on western rangelands, and the rapidly disappearing sage grouse. They discuss the importance of forest fires, the value of beavers, the failed promises of salmon hatcheries, the reasons behind the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, and how unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences in order to resolve long-standing disputes. Nokkentved’s goal is to encourage people to think like a mountain--in other words, to consider the long-term consequences. He shares his connection to each concern as well as his own evidence-based perspective. He believes that it most profits society--collectively and as individuals--when people respect the balance of nature, and he wants to draw others to the same conclusion.

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Washington State University Press

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To Think Like a Mountain

Environmental Challenges in the American West

By: Niels Sparre Nokkentved

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Back Road Daydreams

Reflections on the Great Outdoors

By: Niels Sparre Nokkentved

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Back Road Daydreams

Reflections on the Great Outdoors

By: Niels Sparre Nokkentved

There is no substitute for time spent outdoors-even if it's a simple walk in the woods. For many years Niels S. Nokkentved has written about natural resources and environmental issues as a reporter, columnist and author in the Pacific Northwest. His writing took him deep into the deserts and mountains. He paddled lakes and rivers and camped and hiked in Washington's Cascade Mountains and Olympic Peninsula and in central Idaho's Sawtooth and the Boulder-White Cloud mountains. Nokkentved's writing about the Northwest shows a deep reverence for nature and a keen sense of place. His intention in assembling this book is to entice people to get outdoors by sharing his own adventures and the adventures of others he has met along the way. He shows readers that outdoor adventures don't require special equipment-other than good rain gear perhaps-or extensive expeditions to exotic places. While those sorts of thing definitely qualify, satisfying and worthwhile adventures can be had right outside the back door. Most of his adventures began within a half-hour of his home. Some others took a little longer. But the most important thing he learned was to just get outside-a simple walk along a stream or a farmer's field. He learned that if he had his eyes and ears open, adventure was sure to find him. And adventure is always its own reward, for as the late Justice William O. Douglas said, "the richness of life is found in adventure.

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1452812705

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