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Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making our region confront it
An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.
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Everything about the Pacific Northwest is on display at the new Burke Museum. Even the scientists.
The museum's new home brings its researchers out of the basement, and delivers a love letter of fossils and artifacts to our region.
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Harnessing fire made us human — then we got greedy. Welcome to the Pyrocene
The Ice Age has given way to a fire age. A historian of fire weighs in on its power and peril.
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Finding hints of our future in the epic blazes of the Northwest's past
A visit to the site of the Norse Peak fire — the worst in Western Washington since the Yacolt Burn of 1902 — reveals both the promise and limits of human forest management.
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The secret history of smokejumpers in Washington's Methow Valley
Now a staple in combating wildfires across the West, barnstormers and foresters developed one of the most elite firefighting programs here in Washington.