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Mossback’s Northwest: After clearing forests, settlers were stumped
The remains of felled trees could be a nuisance — or a dream home.
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Mossback’s Northwest: Before Woodstock, there were the ‘Nature Men’
Two eccentrics with Northwest ties turned their (unclothed) backs on civilization and made headlines.
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Mossback's Northwest: How Portland pickled a lost orca
In 1931, a baby whale swam up the Columbia and wound up buried on a Washington mountain. Sound like Northwest lore? Well, it's true.