South Sound Broadband-Great Old Broads for Wilderness

02/05/2026

The Olympic marmot is endemic to the Olympic Peninsula — it is found nowhere else in the world. Now, the federal government is considering listing it as an endangered species.

12/02/2024

12/02/2024

How Can We Not Try to Save It?
Only this world—
not some unknown chance
of life somewhere else,
only this here, this life,
this improbable chance
to be steward of meadow
and desert, mountain and cliff,
this chance to inhabit this
acre, this continent, this planet,
to know this frozen pond,
this slender stream, this dried grass,
this herd of mule deer, this darkness
that comes when our planet spins,
this light that arrives
on darkness’s edge.
Only this chance to sing
of this world, this disappearing
world, this world of emergence,
this world with its stars
and its bones, its prickles
and petals, its sweetness
and ache, this world
with its hopelessness
and, oh dare I say it,
its hope.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

12/12/2023

This Wednesday David Guterson and Tim McNulty will be at Browsers book store at 6:00 PM to talk about thier new book Salmon, Rock and Rain. It is a visualy stunning book with wonderful writing about our precious Olympics. Please come!

04/19/2023

A male wolf that wandered into Klickitat County now has a female companion. Officials say it’s the first wolf pack in the region and may soon become a breeding pair Wildlife biologists captured and collared gray wolf WA109M in 2021. They replaced his

03/12/2023

One of my heroes.

03/09/2023

We are honored to have Robin Wall Kimmerer as a speaker for . Remember to register at https://www.crowdcast.io/c/leopoldweek23. This link gives you access to both the program and its recording.

Robin is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of 'Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants' and 'Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.' She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

09/18/2022

We are reading This Land: How Cowboys, Capitolism and Corruption are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham
Join us for a discussion about grazing and the book on December 7th. Time and place to be announced later. Contact [email protected] if interested.