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. PAGE 7 PAGE 9 PAGE 4 . She guest edited this first interviews Seattle’s popular traces his appreciation for the issue of Ampersand BY GENE DUVERNOY BY BY FLORANGELA DAVILA FLORANGELA BY BY FLORANGELA DAVILA FLORANGELA BY Bluebirds and and Bluebirds Mighty Tieton over 80 regional communities. ambition that’s giving it a new life. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANNY NGAN DANNY BY PHOTOGRAPHY Crosscut.com PHOTOGRAPHY BY GLENN NELSON BY PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY BY GLENN NELSON BY PHOTOGRAPHY 1 Percenter. Davila is a contributor KPLU to Florangela Davila Florangela and and While hiking Silver Peak at Snoqualmie Pass, Gene Duvernoy Gene Gooseneck Barnacles wild. As president of Forterra, Duvernoy has led the Q & A with Nick Hanauer forests, farmlands and natural areas and engage with with engage and areas natural and farmlands forests, organization conserve to more than 235,000 acres of well be Yakima County’s tiny Tieton, home creative to An example of the new Northwestern town could very PAGE 3 Teri Hein Teri transports stars the under query A child’s Atomic Farmgirl Atomic amemoir, of author to her childhood growing up on a farm. Teri Hein is the the is Teri Hein afarm. on up growing childhood to her than 25 years, she’s executive director of 826 Seattle. Seattle. 826 of director executive she’s years, 25 than been featured by NPR, featured been award-winning photographer whose first book, first whose photographer award-winning Washington’s owls. Paul Bannick remains one of the best- the of one remains Woodpecker, the and Owl Geographic selling bird books in North America. His work has has work His America. North in books bird selling Gorgeousness ofOwls traveling exhibits touring North America. He is is He America. North touring exhibits traveling A poetic, intimate, full-color appreciation of of appreciation full-color intimate, A poetic, currently working on a new book on owls. owls. on book anew on working currently The Palouse inMe The Photographic PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL BANNICK , Audubon, Smithsonian BY TERIHEIN PAGE 29 PAGE PAGE 21 PAGE

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BY GENE DUVERNOY BY THE AUTHOR ON ONE OF HIS HIKES. PHOTO BY JOHN BURGE pick your way past rocks Bluebirds and — a third, much less traveled It way. — Gooseneck Barnacles Gooseneck Barnacles is an obscure route obscure an is I hiked a back way up Silver Peak, just east to a ridgeto line and through old forest shaded, to routefrom Annette Lake and not the my water my bottle.way A I always find deeply wet parklands, then on a field to of large scree summit. A way that isn’t dramatically exposed has dependably and alpine Cascade of side satisfying, with ample solitude leavened the by With a few hours kill to earlier this year, abandoned spur trail off the Pacific Coast and up the to final ridge that leadsto the a couple pockets of snowfill where to I stop of Snoqualmie Pass. No, not that horrendous or demandingly or complex, but shows a gentle whiff occasional of elk and bear. Trail, either PAGE 5 They still emphatically mourn my reluctant my reluctant mourn emphatically still They downhill, I had gone for a walk on a Pacific aPacific on awalk for gone Ihad downhill, gooseneck barnacles at Copalis Rock come water and course) of (healthy, snacks guides, can be reaffirmed daily. A place only a few few a only place A daily. reaffirmed be can of tide pooling, or until feet turned numb and and numb turned feet until or pooling, tide of crust, and yet these two also are worlds apart. apart. worlds are also two these yet and crust, vertical distance, a slight bump on the earth’s earth’s the on bump aslight distance, vertical Coast beach. It was a minus tide and over over and tide aminus was It beach. Coast (no wasting disease here), morning sea star, star, sea morning here), disease (no wasting 25-year-old Beemer. a place where that connection is real and and real is connection that where a place and go, my bet is my kids also will cherish the the cherish will also my kids is my bet go, and anemones and gooseneck barnacles. Two have would my mother that Aplace apart. a space hardly bigger than the trunk of my my of trunk the than bigger hardly a space When our thoroughly modern and Seattle- and modern thoroughly our When sale of that car. But as generations of of generations as But car. that of sale to ashort amounts by what separated will let them know we owe our adventuring to to adventuring weoweour know them let will with tweezers, magnifiers, six different field field different six magnifiers, tweezers, with Several weeks earlier and 5,365 feet back back feet 5,365 and earlier weeks Several Sunday catechism. right moment during a Sunday night dinner, I I dinner, night aSunday during moment right mountain bluebirds on Abiel Peak and and Peak Abiel on bluebirds mountain favorite landscapes filled days exploring a universe contained in in contained universe a exploring days filled the legacy of a couple of chipped china birds. birds. china chipped of acouple of legacy the the just at soon, evening one And pools. tide in spying and prying together wespent time Christmas and Aggregating worms, tube that demanded investigation: ochre starfish her of out paradise of apicture thought worlds but Bronx, the from miles thousand teeth started to chatter. We spent wonder- We spent to chatter. started teeth ized kids were young, we used to outfit them them to outfit weused young, were kids ized by Copalis Rock was a chock-full tide pool pool tide achock-full was Rock by Copalis bottles. We were set for a good three hours hours three a good for set We were bottles. online, in magazines and newspapers. Glenn Nelson whose photography has appeared and former longtime sportswriter

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PAGE 6 PAGE 7 Nick Hanauer on Utopia & Utopia on Hanauer Nick The uber-wealthy Seattle entrepreneur and To reject the trickle-down story in all of its its of all in story trickle-down the To reject The 54-year-old venture capitalist (one of (one of capitalist venture 54-year-old The Advisors of Forterra), was interviewed at his his at interviewed was Forterra), of Advisors author, two-time investors), first Amazon’s definitely think that it is possible to build build to possible is it that think definitely destruction of the middle class. middle the of destruction economic inequality his in rich the lambasted he when class 2014 POLITICO magazine manifesto, "The "The manifesto, magazine POLITICO 2014 act responsibly as human beings can manage. asociety just and functioning high as about the maximizes that democracy a capitalist a downtown Seattle high-rise. The artwork artwork The high-rise. Seattle a downtown of Council the on sits (he leader civic and a reminder of how small we are,” he said. he weare,” small how of a reminder wealthy people” like him don’t step up and and up step don’t him like people” wealthy Second Avenue offices, on the 28th floor of floor 28th the on offices, Avenue Second What’s the one thing we regular folk can do do can folk regular we thing one the What’s What’s your ideal of a just, right country? right ajust, of ideal your What’s participation of citizens in the economy and and economy the in citizens of participation not. Economists and policy makers would would makers policy and Economists not. are bottom the and middle the at people matter and are indispensable and that the part of the Ursa Major constellation. “It’s just just “It’s constellation. Major Ursa the of part forms, the idea that the people at the top top the at people the that idea the forms, your last $50 on? $50 last your In it, Hanauer surmised that today’s glaring glaring today’s that surmised Hanauer it, In I don’t hold out hope for a utopia but I I but autopia for hope out hold I don’t chocolate. know, I don’t Pitchforks Are Coming…For Us Plutocrats." Deep Field, an astronomical image showing showing image astronomical an Field, Deep co-founder Voters Education of League like to think that all this stuff fits together as as together fits stuff this all that to think like If the revolution comes, what will you spend spend you will what comes, revolution the If in the democracy in a way that leads to just to just leads that away in democracy the in in a revolution by the masses and in the the in and masses by the arevolution in his reputation as a darling of the working working the of adarling as reputation his cemented activist wage minimum higher hanging above his desk: the Hubble Ultra- Hubble the desk: his above hanging to help achieve a more equitable society? society? equitable amore achieve help to Minimum WageMinimum Jobs — can only end up one way: way: one up end only can — A sit-down themanifesto withthemanbehind if other “obscenely “obscenely other if that’s rattled oftherich. therichest INTERVIEW BY FLORANGELA DAVILA

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This interview has been edited and condensed. but, you know, family my consumes an almost behaviorsomewhat. In this case, it is the incomprehensible amount ofstuff. I feel bad ideas that have shaped society or have important ways. Economist Sam Boles. (J.) Him, a 1,000 by times. I’m a beginning guitar D-41. The songhe’s having the toughest time Doyne Farmer physicist). (a I rip around in own my jet. It’s not a super the richest and most interesting and highly textured constructionsof human society. those are favoritemy places. these challenges will not be met getting by advanced have who scientists and thinkers the potential shape to the society in very for certain kinds of moral leadership when it surprised to know about? player. (Hanauer plays a “very nice” Martin mastering: “Black Dog” Led by Zeppelin). percent of Americans have never heard of, What’s your biggest contradiction in terms Who do you admire that we would be Who’s a better guitar player, you Seattle, Vancouver or Paris is incredibly southeast, Prince William Sound,all over aboutthings like global warming and so forth about that.And yet, be to clear, there is a role a few thousand rich people change to their amount a hill to of beans. of trying to live the life you want to live? or Paul Allen? city, like, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, exciting and I love be to in those places. other 7 billion people. have all to We change our habits collectively or it’s not going to comes these to issues but at the same time defensible behavior, you know, and I care And your favorite wilderness destination? wilderness favorite your And Andso being in the center of big a well-run The more remote, thebetter. Alaska Thepeople mostI admire are folks 99.99

, it sounds Have you ever held a minimum wage job? How do you know what life is actually like Do your (two) kids do chores? How are you going to get them to look that you have? become harder over the last 30 years since had growing up. work We hard and we talk humility,but it’shard. It remains be to seenif for the 99 percent? in life (when he was in his 30s). I grew up illegitimate. important about hard work, service and and service work, hard about important like me calls himself creator a job like we’re describing the economy. But what Feather Co.), which was small, with factory My family. Private airplane. Private Not enough. I worked in the factories for family my all I didI somelandscape work askid.a haveI no use enforce to and encode social preferences that life is like, although I think that life has the split between workers and business this sort of objective science. It’s simply not true. Economics is largely a tool that people to giveto them the same experience that we ourto children a lot about how fortunate they are. And we are doing our best try to those lessons will stick. through junior high school, high school and privilegeand power. And that claim is largely memory of what I was paid, but I tell you what What’s the one thing you couldn’t live without? What’s your favorite urban destination? What’s your favorite mode of transportation? at the world and have the same values workers who were doing factory work. I have working in the family business (Pacific Coast we’re really doing is making a claim on status, schools. Our lives changed relatively late a pretty good visceral understanding of what about status and power and when somebody and inculcate the values we think are super (he starts laughing) it wasn’t very much! owners has changed and advantaged owners. of pretending be to poor, it’s very difficult college. I suspect I made minimum wage. And grewup middle classand we went public to Yeah, well, we think about that a lot. Short That’s a challenge. My wife (Laurie) and I The density and thedynamism of cities are PAGE 9 of outsiders storming in and taking over, taking and in storming outsiders of abunch as story this dismiss you before Now spaces.” these in do to able be would artists what “And Iimagined recalled. Marquand signs,” Sale For these all Isaw and lot parking abandoned an in “I’m was. he where considered Marquand Stuck, Basin. Valley Yakima the of top the at 1,200) population: (estimated Tieton Thegoathead thorns. incident occurred in of abunch struck tires his when foothills, Cascade the in country orchard through 2005, in day April one bicycling out was He Marquand, an art book publisher from Seattle. Ed to be out turned element missing That needed something. – atrophied –tiny, empty, itself town the and town of lip the at beast a 40,000-square-foot adinosaur, like stood warehouse apple A former Mighty New West? A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE SUN SETTING ON THE CASCADE FOOTHILLS THAT FRAME THAT FOOTHILLS CASCADE THE ON SETTING SUN THE OF VIEW A PANORAMIC sustainability of our Pacific Northwest. Tieton isonesustainability ofourPacific Northwest. example working to redefine ofacommunity itself. The health of rural towns is important to the The healthofrural towns isimportant Tiny Tieton: Tiny NACHES VALLEY AND THE FARMLANDS OF TIETON, WA. TIETON, OF FARMLANDS THE AND VALLEY NACHES BY FLORANGELA DAVILA with the big chain stores, Tieton sagged. sagged. Tieton stores, chain big the with compete couldn’t businesses family-owned when plummeted, apples of price the and tanked economy the when But Club. Lions the when business folk enthusiastically populated pins; bowling up setting a job get could a kid when white; mostly to be used Tieton when remember can who local rare the is Pottratz old. 74He’s years said. Pottratz here,” people young to attract alot wasn’t there abusiness or orchard an had family your “Unless to stay. few the of family’s local telephone company. He was one the run to help returned he Army the and school high after and 1950s the in teenager a was He square. town the from miles a few just here, up grew He remembered. Pottratz Tony movies,” Autry “Gene theater. movie and alley abowling stores, grocery three taverns, two to be: used Tieton what consider

PAGE 10 art shows, poetry readings, — the little thingthat could. – werein Spanish.(The once — community events celloconcert warehouse a of dinosaur 40,000-square-foot is now exhibition and studio space). Except for el Día de los Muertos, however, event audiences remainwhite. That fact initially bugged Marquand until he acquiesced something to pointed out Solorio, by his employee: Because everyone saw him asgood a employer, a good neighbor, supporter a of Tieton, they’d already bought in. “Mighty Tieton” a cidery. Out on the square, Marquand started a fine press shop and trained locals such as Maria Solorio. She used clean to houses. Now bindery. a manages she Tieton’stax base, according Marquand, to has increased 50 percent. The Post Office, he also said, has had add to staff. Marquand said there are two big reasons why Mighty Tieton has been able take to off: The longtime Anglo communitywasn’t resistant; this wasn’t a town of historic buildings that people were fightingto preserve. And second, the Latino community is relatively new and hungry for opportunity. connectTo with Latinos, Marquand insisted the flyers announcing all sorts of new Creatives from west of the Cascades bought up the lofts and also launched businesses: a printmaking studio, a goat cheese creamery, PHOTO BY GLENN NELSON houses of fruit companies that were willing build to new state-of-the-art plants but not buildings. functional once rehabilitate “We’re creative people who want do to things engaging,” stimulating, rewarding, are that Longyearsaid. They christened their endeavor three years). They shopped at the one business in town, Mexican-owned Santos Bakery, which had a steady stream of customers. Between 1980 and2000, Tieton’s population not only had doubled, it was mostly Latino, agricultural workers who labored in the fields or in packing The pair initially spent $500,000 purchase to threebuildings. They worked with architect friends construct to a series of loft condos (securing the first building permit in Tieton in “Iread about towns where the same thing happens,” Pottratz said. “It’ll never be the old Tieton again.” Enter Marquand, who, after patching his bike tires, peddled back his to partner, lawyer MikeLongyear, with a vision of sowing something artistic. “I grew up in a small town, New upstate in community agricultural an York. For me this is a similar place,” Longyear explained. We wanted to be in be to in wanted We a community and be a community and be organic.” “We are not developers. developers. not are “We PAGE 11 “ The larger the acityis, resources andenergy.” more efficiently ituses The Economist The number of cells that make up this giant giant this up make that cells of number The land largest the is It big. very is animal This Although West was comparing volume to to volume comparing was West Although A leading thinker of this scientific idea, known known idea, scientific this of thinker A leading energy efficiency. The reason is simple: more more simple: is reason The efficiency. energy each individual’s burden on the infrastructure infrastructure the on burden individual’s each size, in doubles acity When result? The on. than, efficiently more energy uses elephant breaks that a consequence size, enormous energy. West and his colleagues, according to to according colleagues, his and West energy. creature far surpasses the number of stars versions of small ones.” The reason for this is is this for reason The ones.” small of versions thrifty are cities big agorilla, of version a metropolis uses shorter electric cables, has has cables, electric shorter uses a metropolis to be out turned answer attention to cities. to cities. attention British- the is theory,” scaling “metabolic as We must begin with the African elephant. elephant. African the with begin We must surface area, the fact is that density still still density that is fact the area, surface speaking, a larger but more energy-efficient energy-efficient more but alarger speaking, the that is this for reason The say, amouse. studied scaling and elephants, turned his his turned elephants, and scaling studied with the logic of intuition: A single cell in an an in cell Asingle intuition: of logic the with people are sharing the same infrastructure, infrastructure, same the sharing are people a city’s improving in role obvious an plays metabolic processing. massive and dense megalopolis of cells. cells. of megalopolis dense and massive abogglingly it’s fact, in Earth; on mammal falls by about 15 percent. percent. 15 by about falls so and surfaces, road and stations gas fewer laws governing the properties of cities? of properties the governing laws like organisms. Just as an elephant is, roughly roughly is, elephant an as Just organisms. like of rate its slower the is, animal an larger is, the more efficiently it uses resources and and resources uses it efficiently more the is, in this galaxy this in however, an unexpected consequence to this to this consequence unexpected an however, beginning of the last decade, West, who had the Around West. Geoffrey physicist born — Sharing Is At the Sharing Is , “found that cities scale much much scale cities that , “found around 400 billion. There is, is, There billion. 400 around Core of Density of Core Were there any comparable Yes . The larger a city acity larger . The CHARLES MUDEDE The The ON DENSITY The suburbs of the early 20th century were were century 20th early the of suburbs The Are the Keys to Sustainability to Keys the Are American city, and less than 30 percent of the the of percent 30 than less and city, American Also, this is not just limited to dense Capitol Capitol to dense limited just not is this Also, dense neighborhood that’s serviced by lots by lots serviced that’s neighborhood dense a Hill, Capitol location: its of greenness carbon footprint in the US. He writes: “The “The writes: He US. the in footprint carbon smallest the average on have Manhattan of transportation public of benefits The core. of buses and soon, light rail. You can make make You can rail. light soon, and buses of Owen explained in in explained Owen Columbia City is more urban than, say, than, urban more is City Columbia average New Yorker…annually generates 7.1 generates Yorker…annually New average people of lots when meaningful only are acity’s in than sparser population the and a home with every green thing you can buy, buy, can you thing green every with a home environmentally but nothing with a building after World War II. As a consequence, aconsequence, As II. War World after share a bus or train over a very small area. It It area. small a very over train or a bus share larger is covered area the because suburbs with transportation. Public transportation what really counts most. most. counts really what Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Less Driving and Closer, Living Smaller, Living national average, which is 24.5 metric tons; tons; metric 24.5 is which average, national other any of residents of that than rate alower gases, greenhouse of tons metric materials of Seattle’s new and celebrated celebrated and new Seattle’s of materials massively accessed by public modes of for buses and trains, and so on — on so and trains, and buses for for trolleys, which is why Link fit so easily. easily. so fit Link why is which trolleys, for that’s similar to the suburbs that emerged emerged that suburbs to the similar that’s little very wefind DNA their in transportation; Indeed, none of the super green fixtures and and fixtures green super the of none Indeed, Manhattanites generate even less.” Bullitt Center can compare with the simple simple the with compare can Center Bullitt Marysville. Green isn’t found in products but but products in found isn’t Green Marysville. Hill. Take Columbia City: old and planned planned and old City: Take Columbia Hill. is for this and other reasons that, as David David as that, reasons other and this for is the or areas rural in useless practically is case the clearly is This stuff. same the i.e. infrastructure. Giving up lawns for parks, cars cars parks, for lawns up Giving infrastructure. of sharing the and size population location, in say, of north, neighborhoods in located is it if make can you similarly, And here. located if but it will still be an environmental nightmare nightmare environmental an be still will it but green be still would it and materials, horrible

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innovative design? Can Can design? innovative we take and encourage and encourage take we more design risks?” more “Can we incentivize incentivize we “Can height limits, for example improve affordability. In short, supply and and supply short, In affordability. improve outcomes? the in investment is needed. But we alsohave get to better at like adaptive reuse of existing structures. I understand that densities will increase in too restrictive and proscriptive about what Can risks? design more encourage and take that transit service works. desperately We fabric and marginalize greener approaches, approaches, greener marginalize and fabric feel at seeing so many cranes sprouting folks who can least afford it. most restrictions on urban development urban on restrictions most right, when I think about areas of increased making sure that infrastructure, like schools, need a tax system that is more progressive revenues so that growth isn’t paid for the by Some density advocates argue for removing Seattleand that more multi-family housing would damage valuableparts of the urban we incentivize innovative design?Can we increasewe options for smaller developers shouldbe built. Part of the dismay some cookie-cutter buildings.sterile, subsidies for affordable housing increase, and and increase, housing affordable for subsidies When I think about getting development and homeowners and andless relianton development generate to Onthe other hand, agreeI that we’re often everywhere is that they are busy raising creativity within the building codes? Can demand should rule. I think this approach approach this think I rule. should demand density, I wonder if we can allow for more develop along with the growth, that public ON DENSITY KNUTE BERGER Be Smart About It Smart About Be How to City Build and and City Build to How battle lines as if we’re all divided into one of backyard cottages, skinny houses, or six- but mostly jobs, by and jobs they hope will by paraphrasing Winston Churchill’s Churchill’s Winston paraphrasing by inequities between classes and generations. in one place. The real estate business is living in a high-rise. Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who helped Income inequality, gentrification, the lack of two opposing camps: The NIMBY who stands the Densinista who believes there is only one that puts market value above community that city building is an imperfect expression to $15to per hour, has insisted he did not act families. But there are flaws in how it works. pack townhomes, rather than the common new, it is often biased against other positives, pay them enough make to a life for their more evenly. He has spoken of capitalism Striving fix to capitalism’s excesses is an way to liveway to and that’s as a bike commuter whichis how do buildwe better, fairer cities? should not be a stand-in for the real issue, such as helping generations sink deep roots worst system there is,system except worst for all others. system works best if the rewards are spread While growth brings the excitement of the against all progress for selfish reasons; and and reasons; selfish for progress all against all downsides. When we talk about growth anddensity we’re also talking about the fact as well as the rest of us. attracted Seattle to the by scenery, yes, Ourflawed economic system also drives value. of zoning. fight We over micro-housing, or of an out-of-whack system that exacerbates employment stability or employer loyalty are exercise in self-preservation for millionaires, millionaires, for self-preservation in exercise observation about democracy: that it’s the the observation it’s that democracy: about out of altruism. Rather, the effort was in his own self-interest. He believes our economic good. Activists have been guilty of drawing driven “highest by and best use,” a concept growth and development. People are get Seattle minimum-wage workers a raise Allthis is say to that density, the buzzword, Too oftenToo we get wrapped up in the minutiae PAGE 13 As Americans, we have been raised to believe to believe raised been wehave Americans, As don’t need a car to survive. to survive. acar need don’t dependent areas outside of it. home at more certainly are attributes defining established infrastructure and, as importantly, cities tend to be healthier and live longer than than longer live and healthier to be tend cities dense in live who Those transportation. of mode apractical becomes walking that is core cities in the world, also has one of the highest highest the of one has also world, the in cities additions are often paid for not by private by private not for paid often are additions a surprise that Hong Kong, one of the densest densest the of one Kong, Hong that a surprise within the city’s limits utilize an older and and older an utilize limits city’s the within we actually are: a highly social animal that that animal social ahighly are: we actually management facilities and roads. And these waste amenities, services, new require found in the rural way of life of way rural the in found family home, and distance from others. But But others. from distance and home, family those who live in the suburbs. Indeed, it is not not is it Indeed, suburbs. the in live who those that happiness and prosperity are essentially essentially are prosperity and happiness that this way of life is likely at odds with who who with odds at likely is life of way this Issaquah. Those who live in neighborhoods New developments in the suburbs often often suburbs the in developments New life expectancies anywhere. investors but by the public. But the main main the But public. by the but investors in the dense city than in the sparser, car- sparser, the in than city dense the in benefit of living in or very close to the dense dense the to close or very in living of benefit has evolved to be a supreme walker. These These walker. asupreme to be evolved has CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 PAGE FROM CONTINUED towns are important subjects for Forterra. We plan on We plan Forterra. for subjects important are towns The growth of cities and the sustainability of small small of sustainability the and cities of growth The continuing the conversation with other voices. voices. other with conversation the continuing — land, asingle- land, EDITOR’S NOTE: The opposite strategy, however, was pursued pursued was however, strategy, opposite The Add to that the mission of building a more amore building of mission the to that Add given ourselves a challenge worthy of our our of worthy achallenge ourselves given we’ve and community socially-just diverse, industry, move to policies government’s especially the defense and tech industries, to to industries, tech and defense the especially sprawl. of tide the by stemming countryside visions, a metroplex that respects nature. nature. respects that a metroplex visions, after World War II, fueled by the federal federal by the fueled II, War World after strived to find a middle ground between those those between ground middle a to find strived would provide the ultimate protection for the the for protection ultimate the provide would major city in a 584-story box. That, he argued, argued, he That, box. a584-story in city major a put could literally that skyscraper mile-high the ultimate density tool when he imagined a a imagined he when tool density ultimate the the suburbs. The Puget Sound region has long long has region Sound Puget The suburbs. the In the 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright conceived conceived Wright Lloyd Frank 1950s, the In Density is only one small piece of the puzzle. the of piece small one only is Density best efforts. best CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 PAGE FROM CONTINUED It began as an estuary, miles of fresh and salt water hugged by marshes and mudflats and the winter villages of the Duwamish People.

Then a series of events beginning in the early Artist Chandler Woodfin was home in South 1900s, both natural as well as man-made, Park and she needed to stretch her legs — radically transformed the Duwamish River. and mind. “I just wanted to be outside and We often dismiss the river as horribly and paint,” she says. So she walked up the street, highly polluted and just a shred of what it assaulted by the smell of trash and industrial naturally used to be. When we acknowledge noise, and from a bench on the river’s bank, it, it’s most often with the moniker: federally she took in the sights. recognized Superfund site. “And I was inspired by the environment: But the Duwamish River is also a source of the ripples on the water; the movement of curiosity, inspiration and, for a newcomer, a crane crushing up a car. That walk was adventure. really about questioning why I chose to live in this neighborhood,” Woodfin says. She Tom Reese first began photographing the appreciates the underdog quality of the Duwamish about a decade ago, when he Duwamish and she says there’s beauty to be was still on staff at The Seattle Times. He found in the river. “Or else, why would people discovered that whenever he brought up the be so concerned with saving it?” Duwamish, when he asked people if they had ever seen it, the answer was often, “No.” In an essay, Carrie Hawthorne invites us onto the river as she kayaks it for the first “The more I look, the more I find, the more time. Not all of us would choose to paddle I think about,” Reese says. His photography is a contaminated site. But the thrill for about placing value on the natural world, Hawthorne wasn’t about taking risks; it was even on the parts that we don’t always about passionately exploring the place that seek out. surrounds you. She’s recently claimed Seattle as home. PAGE 15 SOIL, WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 9’’ X12’’ 9’’ PAPER, ON WATERCOLOR SOIL, BY CHANDLER WOODFIN WOODFIN CHANDLER BY PAGE 16 BY CHANDLER WOODFIN FUNNEL, WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 9’’ X 12’’ PAGE 17 PAGE 18 LEFT ABOVE PHOTO BY TOM REESE PHOTO BY TOM REESE THE DUWAMISH RIVER, SOUTH PARK HEADWATERS OF THE DUWAMISH RIVER PAGE 19 KAYAKING SITE ASUPERFUND An oldriver through anewcomer’s eyes AN URBAN ADVENTURE: URBAN AN PHOTO BY CARRIE HAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE CARRIE BY PHOTO BY CARRIEHAWTHORNE ON THE DUWAMISH THE ON

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CENTURY. CENTURY. OVER THE LAST HAS BEEN DRAMATIC ALTERATION OF THIS WATERWAY THE HUMAN PAGE 21 Wonders Winged PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL BANNICK BY PAUL PHOTOGRAPHY TEXT BY FLORANGELA DAVILA PAGE 22 LEFT OWLS ARE, FAR, BY PHOTOGRAPHER PAUL PAUL PHOTOGRAPHER POETRY. AN ESSENTIAL HABITAT OTHERS TO POTENTIAL TROUBLE. OWLS, BANNICK, SAYS ARE NATURE’S BANNICK’S FAVORITE BIRD. BIRD. FAVORITE BANNICK’S A TALL SHRUB OR POST SO IT CAN ALERT COMPONENT FOR THE BURROWING OWL IS bump into one, but the only owls he’d come if you know how and where look, to you can Bannickwas 8, maybe years9 old, the first time Bannick began jotting down the dates the winter,” he says. “The next it was day, time he saw one. figured the owl would stay nearby through following year he found and photographed find 15. for having more owl species than any other pole and there was a Snowy Owl,” he recalls. So it’s a good thingBannick is based here. when amphibians had started laying eggs. “I state in the country. There are 19 species of Washington is tied with Montana and Arizona as he can remember, this was just around the across were road kill. friend “A once told me, Out in the wild, Bannick always wanted to Owl. Then Bannick got smarter and the years.” year looking turned up just one kind: a Barred of significant milestones he’d come across. every available kind. owls foundin the United States; in Washington, gone. I didn’t see another Snowy for about 30 Although passionate about nature for as long The first blooms on plants, for example. Or ‘You don’t find owls. Owls find you.’” His first “Oh yeah, one day I looked up at a telephone PAGE 23 THINNED OR CUT,” BANNICK SAYS. BANNICK CUT,” OR THINNED ARE FORESTS WHEN CONSIDERATIONS HABITAT IMPORTANT MOST THE OF ONE IS RETENTION “SNAG SNAGS. IN CREATED ARE CAVITIES THESE OF MOST TIME. TO TIME FROM THEM USE MORE TWO AND CAVITIES WOODPECKER-CREATED REQUIRE SPECIES OWL NORTHERN FLICKER IN AN ASPEN SNAG. FIVE OF WASHINGTON’S A BY CREATED ACAVITY FROM OUT PEEKS OWL A FLAMMULATED PAGE 24

EASTERN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. EASTERN Also, take note of existing snags. The Flammulated

SURVIVE. WHEN THEY’RE HERE, THEY SEEK OUT HABITAT THAT LOOKS MOST LIKE THE TREELESS ARCTIC TUNDRA: THE SKAGIT RIVER DELTA, OCEAN SHORES AND LARGE TREELESS OF SWATHS AND TRAVEL AS FAR AS WASHINGTON TO FIND ENOUGH FOOD TO SNOWY OWLS WILL SOMETIMES LEAVE THE ARCTIC IN THE WINTER have a stronger chance of spotting an the owl. Flammulated Take Owl: land. Bannick travels the contours of this place show to us all manner of Douglas fir. So, dry forest habitats in the mountains around Leavenworth, If you pay attention the to ecology, landscape and season,then you’ll they gravitate toward places where old growth Ponderosa pine meets the Teanaway and the Methow are where you might come across one of these nocturnal birds. stakeand what elements need be to preserved. They give me greata Owl only nests in cavities created woodpeckers, by which most often vehicle for talking about conservation,” Bannick says. owl behavior. Lucky for us. occur in thesestanding dead trees. To owl sleuth,To the photographer explains, you need focus to on habitat. That’s what he loves about owls: their health echoes the health of the “In telling the story about the owl, I have tell to the story of what’s at PAGE 25 WINTER, THIS SPECIES IS FOUND IN THE RIPARIAN AREAS ALONG THE COAST AND IN AND COAST THE ALONG AREAS RIPARIAN THE IN FOUND IS SPECIES THIS WINTER, THE SHORT-EARED OWL CAN HUNT ITS PREY USING HEARING ALONE. DURING THE THE DURING ALONE. HEARING USING PREY ITS HUNT CAN OWL SHORT-EARED THE IN THE SUMMER, MANY OF OUR WASHINGTON SHORT-EARED OWLS HEAD TO HEAD OWLS SHORT-EARED WASHINGTON OUR OF MANY SUMMER, THE IN THE GRASSLANDS AND MEADOWS THROUGHOUT EASTERN WASHINGTON. EASTERN THROUGHOUT MEADOWS AND GRASSLANDS THE TWO FLEDGLING NORTHERN PYGMY OWLS, JUST HOURS AFTER LEAVING LEAVING AFTER HOURS JUST OWLS, PYGMY NORTHERN FLEDGLING TWO THEIR NEST. THIS SPECIES IS FOUND THROUGHOUT THE OLYMPICS, THE THE OLYMPICS, THE THROUGHOUT FOUND IS SPECIES THIS NEST. THEIR BREEDING AREAS EAST OF THE CASCADES OR IN THE ARCTIC. THE IN OR CASCADES THE OF EAST AREAS BREEDING CASCADES AND ALL OF THE STATE’S MOUNTAIN RANGES. RANGES. MOUNTAIN STATE’S THE OF ALL AND CASCADES

PAGE 26 OWL STRETCHES ITS LEG BEFORE LEAVING ITS BURROW. THESE OWLS LIVE IN BURROWS CREATED BY SKUNKS, BADGERS SQUIRRELS, GROUND AND PREFERRING THE GRASSY OF SHRUB-STEPPE AREAS COLUMBIATHE PLATEAU. A JUVENILE BURROWING BURROWING JUVENILE A PAGE 27 PAGE 28 THE GREAT GRAY OWL IS RELIANT UPON OLDER GROWTH TREES AND, IDEALLY, MOIST MEADOWS. THEY CATCH MOST OF THEIR FOOD, SUCH AS VOLES AND GOPHERS, IN OPEN MEADOWS, RANCHES AND FARMLANDS. FOUND IN THE OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS, THE KETTLE RANGE AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. PAGE 29 Give meastarry night andawhiffof night inthe1960s. in asummerPalouse alfalfa andI’m back tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, lima beans, of full are greenhouses giant two least at so cultivate, wedon’t if injustice an feels He us. of two the just it’s though even produce with fields and greenhouses the fill we should thinks Jim farm. the of definition the about we argue though even Seattle, in apartment our than more hearts our in farm the feel both we Ithink Seattle. in mostly Ilive while farm the on mostly lives Jim Peninsula. Olympic the on afarm Iown and Today my husband ofsmell alfalfa. that and stars the And lawn. the on backs our on from wetracked route whose a plane maybe highway, distant the over going lights car distance, the in coyotes hooting, Owls dark. kid not but dark, adult maybe really, dark wasn’t it And alfalfa. of smelled and cool finally was air The we resisted. But in.” come to say. “Time would mothers our outside,” terrifying game to farmers to encourage named strategically My German ancestors immigrated to the United United to the immigrated ancestors German My bales and playing Kick the Can the Kick playing and bales of supply winter’s next the collecting spent were childhoods summer Our cattle. hungry anxious, opposite lined feeders over open them cutting floors, barn across bales pound 50- dragging childhoods winter our We spent my history. is rest the and property parents’ her straddling farm, our built they Hein, Philip married Thams Mary later, years Thirty dirt. Palouse of acres 60 their claimed and Territory Washington to the travelled Heins the and Thams The days. homestead the in West move Ritzville and Fairfield like to towns skills farming their bringing States, The Palouse in Me — especially at night. “It’s dark dark “It’s night. at especially — railroad stops —

a deliciously BY TERIHEIN I wonder if at first he felt his place in the same same the in place his felt he first at if I wonder again. cycle the started aplow and spreader, manure combine, seeder, harrow, then plow, a with ayear times multiple circumnavigated he that fields the was place father’s My to win. yet Ihave battle whispered. “Amazing.” he stars?” the seen you “Have him. over tripped Rowan until undetected stars, the watching grass, tall of patch in a lying field, the in hiding been had he me told He Seeker. Hide-and- afound to me, next chair the in slumped Faiz 10-year-old rounds, some After Hide-and-Seek. of game night late would prefer a smaller garden asmaller prefer would and ayear seasons four farm to really like is it what of knowledge the my core in I have flowers. and garlic and corn. Randomly placed around are hops, — outside garden have a We grapes. and flowers eyes wide open. wide eyes with dark the in grass the in back one’s on lying as things by such driven be can world the in place of sense aperson’s how And ago. years 50 of lawn Palouse our from Isaw stars same the at looking was Faiz that And me. in Palouse the rustles something stars, the at I look wherever that tome occurred it moment At that world barn the of front in chair lawn in a up curled I tales, fireside and dinner After trip. acamping for farm to our came center the from children of a group Recently Seattle. in center awriting Irun days These place. same the in launched careers Can the Kick our of both dark, the in Can the Kick playing stars, the through mine: Ifelt way this year full of celery, Walla Wallas, favas favas Wallas, Walla celery, of full year this — as the kids pulled out headlamps for a a for headlamps out pulled kids the as — in my adult-dark — an annual PAGE 30 And that is all. And that ARTWORK BY ROGER FERNANDES A COAST SALISH STORY AS TOLD BY ROGER FERNANDES BY TOLD AS STORY SALISH A COAST A long time ago, Blackberry was a plant that got along with everyone. Blackberry friends. many had One time, for reasons no one knows, Blackberry grew bigger and as he grew he began grab to animals and people as they walked him. by He would wrap his vines around them and stab them with his thorns and kill and devour them.Blackberry got bigger and bigger. He was bigger than tree.a He was growing becausehe was eating the beings he captured and killed. Thepeople and animals were afraid of Blackberry. They asked Wolf help to them. Wolf got a whalebone club and climbed up a tree next Blackberry. to He began hit to Blackberry with the club over and Every over. time he hit Blackberry, the plantgot smaller. After while a Blackberry was the size of a bush.small Wolf told Blackberry that he would no longer hurt and kill other beings. He would not grow any bigger. Wolf said if Blackberry grew any bigger Wolf would hit him again. That is why today Blackberry does not grow big and no people. and animals kills longer Blackberry and Wolf Wolf and Blackberry Forces of Nature for Nature

At a park near you

BY FLORANGELA DAVILA PHOTO BY DANNY NGAN

They are the ones who prune, salvage, grub, burlap, plant, mulch, weed and grade trails. The ones with forearms all scratched up from pulling blackberries. The ones who’ll lament how the sturdiest of work pants are too often designed for bodies without hips.

There they are, out in the meadow, on a river’s banks, in the urban forest battling Morning glory and Butterfly bush and color coding seedlings. When it comes to conservation work, theirs is the most physical. And we noticed some of those who are doing the hard stuff are women. MARY SUE GEE, 74 “I’m so connected to the CARI KRIPPNER, 50 “Pain is temporary. Pride is land, I have to keep it in forever. I always say you LANDSCAPE ECOLOGIST, FOREST STEWARD, FORTERRA VOLUNTEER good shape.” EVERETT’S THORNTON A. can come back and say, SULLIVAN PARK, ‘See this part right here? I FORTERRA VOLUNTEER planted this!’ I do this for MARISKA KECSKES, 24 “Restoration work is the generations to come.” great therapy. Nothing STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATE, FORTERRA; WASHINGTON gets aggression out like CONSERVATION CORPS swinging a pulaski LISA CIECKO, 34 “I actually looked but I (a tool for digging and couldn’t find maternity PLANT ECOLOGIST, chopping) around.” SEATTLE PARKS AND work pants. I would RECREATION so love a pair so the blackberries aren’t MARIESHA “It’s about seeing the constantly stabbing me in RILEY-WASHINGTON, 19 results, seeing where you the leg.” started and the impact GREENCORPS GRADUATE/ YOUTH PROGRAM LEAD, you’ve made.” (Her SEATTLE GOODWILL favorite song to sing to JUDY BLANCO, 47 “You get to think about while working is "We your work in a deep-time CEDAR RIVER Belong Together" by RESTORATION PROGRAM scale. Fifty, 100 years. Mariah Carey). MANAGER, FORTERRA That’s pretty satisfying.”

SHAWNTEAL “You take (English) ivy, TURNER, 22 you have a rope of it, you wrap it around you, you GREENCORPS GRADUATE/ YOUTH PROGRAM LEAD, lean into it and then you SEATTLE GOODWILL pull. It’s like you’ve saved the tree. It’s like you’ve saved a life.” PAGE 33 “You show them a hand, then you show them them show you then ahand, them show “You “Uncle Charlie” or “Grandpa Charlie” always something, about to care going you’re “If The youngest members of his family know know family his of members youngest The ACER MACROPHYLLUM that can stretch 11’’ across. across. 11’’ stretch can that fall to the ground. to the fall Huge shade trees that drip with moss moss with drip that trees shade Huge in yellow abright turn Leaves Five-lobed leaves Five-lobed Its winged seed pods twirl as they they as twirl pods seed winged Its desire to preserve our Pacific Northwest. Northwest. Pacific our to preserve desire only fun but educational.” autumn before falling off. falling before autumn in places like the Hoh Rain Forest. Rain Hoh the like places in you have to know about it,” says Charlie Charlie says it,” about to know have you Conservation. And the way Raines sees it, it’s it’s it, sees way Raines the And Conservation. a leaf and you tell them, ‘Big Leaf Maple.’ And And Maple.’ Leaf ‘Big them, tell you and a leaf tours into the woods to look close, look up, up, look close, to look woods the into tours they remember.” In his off time, Raines leads children out on on out children leads Raines time, off his In Raines. He’s Forterra’s Director of Forest Forest of Director Forterra’s He’s Raines. Big Leaf Maple look around. His rationale: “Make a walk not not a walk “Make rationale: His around. look knowledge about this place that will fuel a a fuel will that place this about knowledge has something to teach them. to teach something has Northwest Trees — like your hand Five Common How to ID ACCORDING TO CHARLIERAINES

Trees are, simply put, big, beautiful and old, old, and beautiful big, put, simply Trees are, on a quick walk in his Seattle neighborhood. neighborhood. Seattle his in walk a quick on green. deep and red gold, of can find these five species in Discovery Park, Park, Discovery in species five these find can (He lives in lives (He Si Natural Resources Conservation Area, Schmitz Park, Seward Park, Point Defiance neighborhood. own your in probably and forests national thinks, to soak Coast East to the going about talking Raines gathered all the leaves pictured here here pictured leaves the all gathered Raines Raines says. Come fall, when people start start people when fall, Come says. Raines Park, Tiger Mountain State Forest, the Mount Mount the Forest, State Mountain Tiger Park, in leaves-changing-color Raines panoramas, Nah, head to the Cascades for a vista a vista for Cascades to the head — wait for it for wait

— Maple Leaf). You Leaf). Maple Y L A C S Y WAX NEE DLES

Western Hemlock TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA Western Red Cedar Look at its top—if it appears to be nodding THUJA PLICATA to sleep, it’s a safe bet it’s a hemlock. Scales rather than needles. Short needles. A scent that is pleasantly pungent. Small cones less than one-inch long. Fibrous bark. It’s the state tree of Washington. Resins make its wood very resistant to rot, so many of the old stumps found in the forest are red cedar (some which were cut more than 80 years ago by loggers using double-bitted axes). PAGE 34 PAGE Prized by Native Americans for building canoes, totem poles and longhouses; its inner bark was woven into waterproof boxes and rain hats.

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Needles extend outwards.

Cone has three-pronged bracts that droop. Thick bark, which helps to protect the Red Alder tree against fire. ALNUS RUBRA

It has very strong wood, which is highly Oval-shaped, serrated leaves. valued for use in construction. Thin, speckled bark. Although this tree has Douglas as a first name, its moniker is actually the Its flowers are catkins, which are similar last name of a Scottish botanist, David to cones on a pine tree. Douglas, who explored the Pacific It’s often the first tree to grow up in Northwest in the early 19th century. an old road bed or after a fire because bacteria on its roots brings nitrogen to it. PAGE 35 GEO AKA PROMETHEUSBROWN, RAPPER “Bear spray“Bear on my notinit.” pack, George Quibuyen “...which, more thannot, often I don’t even end upusing.” MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERA FORMAT MEDIUM SEVERAL ROLLS OF FILM OF ROLLS SEVERAL COMPEED BLISTER PADS WITH THEBLUE SCHOLARS HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER, Rick Griffin RATTLESNAKE RIDGE WILDERNESS TRAILS WILDERNESS SEATTLE MARINERS Here are some of their answers: their of some are Here packs? their in carrying they are what and going love they do where outside, adventure folks when wondering were we So outdoors. time for We yearn summit the at then, but back, lower and forehead your soaking sweat of dollop first that knees, your in feel you views from a neighborhood park. Or, something much more aerobic more much Or, something park. aneighborhood from views watery the and birdsong the in taking hand, in latte stroll, acasual be can It BEAR SPRAY BEAR ALPINE LAKES Your Backpack? outside, where dothey love going andwhat are We were wondering whenfolks adventure What’s In In What’s

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, that magnificent payback of a view. of a payback magnificent that “Once I 'ate“Once it'on alongtrail run and lost mylost strongest contactlens squinting atsquinting theground makingsure I didn’t catch and'eat atoe it' again.” AN EXTRA PAIR OF CONTACT LENSES CONTACT OF PAIR EXTRA AN process. process. Megan Griffiths FIELD ROAST APPLE SAGE APPLE ROAST FIELD FILM DIRECTOR, LUCKY THEM VEGETARIAN SAUSAGES Ben GibbardBen SINGER/GUITARIST WITH OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK DEATH CABFOR CUTIE

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WHEN THE MAP COMPASS ENERGY BARS ENERGY PORT TOWNSEND PORT ECO-FRIENDLY ALTIMETER/GPS PRINCIPAL DANCER, PRINCIPAL MY SLEEPING PAD is unacceptable.” AUTHOR, AUTHOR, Carrie Imler Carrie THE BOOK I’M READING WALLACE FALLS IN GOLD BAR MY FOLDABLE DOG BOWL PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET NORTHWEST PACIFIC DE LA CRUZ FAMILY DANCED FAMILY DE LA CRUZ Martin Volken COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK COMPOSITION Donna Miscolta THE NOVEL I’M WORKING ON NORTH BEND’S PRO GUIDING SERVICE BEND’S PRO GUIDING SERVICE NORTH THE WILDNESS OF THE NORTH CASCADES I still need to get my beauty sleep!” beauty I still need my get to IFMGA MOUNTAIN GUIDE AND OWNER OF OF GUIDE AND OWNER IFMGA MOUNTAIN smart phone these days, but you still still smart but you phone these days, “Often that can all be bundled on your “Often can all be bundled that on your have to know how to use to it. how know to Getting lost have “...while I may be in the rugged outdoors, I may “...while

GLOVES FRUIT MOUNT SI CLIPPERS WATER CHEESE MY PONCHO MY THE TEANAWAY ENTREPRENEUR, CURED MEAT CURED GARDEN APRON GARDEN CHEF/OWNER OF CHEF/OWNER PLANTING TROWEL MAYOR OF SNOHOMISH OF SNOHOMISH MAYOR I might bring wine.” Karen Guzak Karen Chris MartinChris THE CENTER OF MY GARDEN It’s old and heavy so I might get so I might get old and heavy It’s

SEATTLE’S CAFÉ CAMPAGNE CAFÉ CAMPAGNE SEATTLE’S “...and scissors for bringing scissors for “...and bountiful bouquets indoors.” Daisley Gordon Daisley one of the nice ones soon!” new FOUNDER OF RECOLOGY CLEANSCAPES OF RECOLOGY FOUNDER “It breathes, is totally waterproof, waterproof, is totally “It breathes, and makes an excellent emergency emergency an excellent and makes “If I were going off the beaten path, off the beaten going “If I were shelter. shelter. PAGE 37 It’s combination that meaningful They guide Forterra’s debut issue of of issue debut Forterra’s guide They words. clear strong, are These Ampersand And if you haven’t already, please do join us. us. join do please already, haven’t you if And growing movement. movement. growing contributing to research and education. education. and to research contributing change; conducting land transactions and real estate of life we all seek. It takes a village—or in this case, a case, this in avillage—or takes It seek. weall life of of what we most love about this place—our natural natural place—our this about love wemost what of protection the and region our of on resiliency the and reports journalistic essays, stories, of collection and the social today will ensure the well-being and and well-being the ensure will today social the and access to a vibrant and healthy place and the quality quality the and place healthy and to avibrant access art about our natural and built environments and We believe that nurturing and investing in the natural natural the in investing and nurturing that We believe some of the people in them. them. in people the of some make sure all our neighbors, present and future, have future, and present neighbors, our all sure make projects; conceiving and advancing policy and positive and practical powerful, about to bring people region—to make a difference. adifference. make region—to to stay in spite of the rain. rain. the of spite in to stay But these are only some of the actions required to required actions the of some only are these But of groups diverse convening is expertise Forterra’s Now in our 25th year, Forterra continues to focus to focus continues Forterra year, 25th our in Now longevity of what we most value. How do we do that? that? wedo do How value. wemost what of longevity landscapes and our quality of life—why we choose wechoose life—why of quality our and landscapes in this together. So thank you for your part in a in part your for you thank So together. this in hope to continue with you over time. We’re all all We’re time. over you with to continue hope of people &place. of people is a conversation starter—one Forterrans Forterrans starter—one aconversation is THIS PLACE IS WHO WE ARE. ARE. WE WHO IS PLACE THIS FORTERRA.ORG/JOIN FORTERRA.ORG/JOIN THE NEXT WAVE ARRIVES NEXT THE SPRING 2015 Ampersand —a —a

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