Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Groundtruthing: An Introduction -- PART I: WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST? -- Writing West -- Otey Island -- Rhapsody for Blackberries -- PART II: WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED FULFILLMENT? -- Ballet in Bifocals -- How Do Musicians Do What They Do? -- Deadheading -- Life Is a Mountain: Into Thin Air and Beyond -- Surgeon's Knots -- Calling the Past into the Future with Stories -- PART III: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ISSUES WE FACE? -- Land -- An Impromptu on Owning Land -- Oregon Land Use Planning: The Fairness Chronicles -- Water -- From "River Soldiers" -- Water in the West -- A River Runs against It: America's Evolving View of Dams -- Mountains -- Poem -- One's View of Mount Rainier -- Volcanoes and Superquakes: Living with Geologic Hazards in the Pacific Northwest -- Wildlife -- No Longer a Hunter -- Salmon and the Northwest -- The Endangered Species Act: Thirty-Eight Years on the Ark -- Energy -- Night Lights -- The Power of Wind, Sun, and Falling Water -- Sunshine -- Transportation -- Good Driver! -- Second Thoughts about Rail Transit in America -- PART IV: HOW DO WE USE WHAT WE KNOW? -- Science and Public Policy: The Twain Must Meet -- Lessons from the Land for Protection in the Sea: The Need for a New Ocean Ethic -- Peace on the River: The Klamath Basin Settlement -- On Judicial Activism -- Fire and Water -- Contributors -- Additional Resources.