A heartfelt Thank You

Forterra pays its contributors for their work. Editorial costs for this issue of Ampersand were generously covered by our friends at Cloud Ridge Publishing, who believe in our publication. We’re thankful.

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What’s your Favorite Third Place?

A DJ, a geology professor, a poet and other locals tell us about where they go to find community.

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Nisqually Salmon and the Changing State of the Wild

Writer Bruce Barcott explores the notion about what it actually means when we regard a place as being “wild.”

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Proceed with Caution

Booming Seattle is the antithesis of progress for those trying to navigate it while blind. Crammed within a single half-block of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, scores of orange diamonds and white rectangles splay themselves out along curbs, sidewalks and streets, forming a confusing kaleidoscope of a city under construction.

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In Pullman, A Wheat Geneticist Attempts to Stay Ahead of Climate Change

One scientist thinks solutions to climate change lie in the potential of heat resistant super wheat.

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How to City Build and Be Smart About It

Writer Knute Berger looks at the complexity of density

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About the Cover

Our third issue is titled Breaking Trail. It’s our spotlight on five people and projects we think are breaking trail to sustain our region. One such idea is an up-and-coming wood product called cross-laminated timber, which makes use of smaller diameter logs and low-quality wood.

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Growing Pains, Growing Gains

So what do I know about cities? This: Build cities for people, and then all the rest follows. Commerce, culture, innovation, efficiency — all of it. Just start and end by building them for us — all of us. It’s that simple, writes Gene Duvernoy.

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Lichens: Nature’s Ambient Noise

On acid rocks, rooftops and limestone gravestones, lichens are quiet explosions, the elegant blemishes of age and decay. Poets deem them stoic, statements of the liquid passage of time. Scientists call them useful, indicators of clean air. Their growth can be analyzed to approximate the ages of natural masses, like flints and moraines.

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Posted 10/3/16

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A heartfelt Thank You

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