Community & Culture
The links on this page are about culture, history, community forestry, outdoor research, science and education in the Okanogan and Methow Valleys of North Central Washington.
Community Quick Links
Showrooms
Showrooms, bric-a-brac and material goods. All wrapped in a downloadable PHP script that creates an image gallery on-the-fly from a folder of images.
Recycled building materials from Methow Resource Recovery in Twisp. This is a gallery of hot new (old) items.
www.methownet.com. This site supports a large local community in additon to web hosting and site design.
Ties to Tribes
Jeanette Armstrong on the Okanogan. The Okanogan Tribes are the ones who are dream and land together, from an essay by Jeanette Armstrong, titled Identity and Responsibility (2001).
Human Health & Disease: Chemical Warfare
Multiple-Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). What you don't know can hurt you.
Life in the narrow lane. by Jeanne Hardy, 2001. An essay about life as a chemically sensitive individual
Dead trees. A case study pointing to herbicide misuse: How a flawed Biological Evaluation helped put poison into the Chewuch River.
Good news for farmers, 2005. Supreme Court sides on the sides of farmers.
Planning, Zoning, Utilities
Methow Valley Citizens Council. Zoning, planning and county ordinances.
Forest Health: Community Forestry
Methow Forest Owners Cooperative.
Hungry-Hunter Ecosystem Management Project. GIS and analysis and multi-party monitoring.
Sinlahekin Wildlife Area Restoration Plan. A long-term plan to reduce fuels and restore fire regimes in the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area.
Salvaging Libby South. Forestry blunders.
Lynx habitat impacts. Gallery showing losses of lynx and hare habitat in the Okanogan boreal forest.
Essays and Stories
Lost and Forgotten. A trail guide to roadless area hikes and vistas near the Methow Valley, Washington.
Okanogan dreams, Okanogan nightmares. Plan C. Essay by George Wooten
The Anonymous Forester, anonymous, by someone in the Forest Service
Getting to know the Methow Valley. Essay by George Wooten
Letter from Okanogan County. by Vic Bondi
1999 WNPS Spring Weekend hikes - photo essay