In 1910, two trains became stranded in Washington’s Cascade Mountains during a record-breaking snowstorm. After six harrowing nights, a massive avalanche swept them off the mountainside — the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history. More than a century later, one question still lingers: could the disaster have been prevented?

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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche, by Gary Krist (2007).

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In 1997, a lifelong Canadian logger had reached the end of his rope. For years Grant Hadwin attempted to sound the alarm to the dangers of the logging industry, but his attempts to speak for the trees repeatedly fell on deaf ears. Ultimately, he did something almost unforgivable, he cut down K’iid K'yaas - a sacred, protected and beloved Sitka Spruce. His hopes of using the act to garner attention to the evils of logging backfired and shortly after committing the crime, Grant Hadwin disappeared forever.

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Sources:

Book: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

Documentary: Hadwin's Judgement

Articles, Journals & Websites:

Haida Laas - Journal of the Haida Nation

Council of the Haida Nation

Haida Tourism

Gwaii Haanas / Government of Canada

Tapestry Institute: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge Into Life

New Yorker - The Golden Bough

The New York Times

Colorado Fire Camp 

Wikipedia - Hecate Strait

Tree Sisters

British Columbia: An Untold History

The Nation

Haida Ethics and Values 

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The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird - The Golden Spruce, Part One and Two

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Justinthetrees: What Happened to the Golden Spruce?

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Today, more than 1 billion people around the world celebrate Earth Day—but decades before this global movement began, one woman laid the foundation. When aerial pesticide programs drenched the Northeast in chemicals like DDT, devastating ecosystems and killing thousands of wildlife species, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson sounded the alarm. Her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, ignited a nationwide reckoning with the hidden environmental costs of modern life.

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“Rachel Carson Memorial,” (Atlas Obscura, 2023).

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After over a month of a long, arduous overland journey the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition finally reaches the waters of the River of Doubt. Their troubles have just begun as they are about to face not only the beauty of the unknown, but its perils. Everyone will starve and suffer - but not everyone will survive.

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Book - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candace Millard

Articles - NPS, Medium

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Hosts Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark are launching a brand new podcast, Watch Her Cook!

Watch Her Cook is a weekly podcast that highlights the incredible women throughout history who have shattered the glass ceiling on the expectations of what women "should" be. From trailblazing inventors and fierce activists to notorious outlaws and criminal masterminds, these women proved their capabilities far surpassed domestic duties.

Every episode dives into the lives of these extraordinary women, some changed the world in groundbreaking ways, and others, in chilling ones.

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Following a crushing political defeat in 1913 former president Theodore Roosevelt turned to what soothed him the most - the wild and pushing his limits within it. Roosevelt is a complicated historical figure - one who is remembered in teddy bears, for his legacy of public land protection, as the country’s youngest and most influential politician as well as a man who held racist ideals - but not many remember him as a man who lived for adventure and pioneering exploration. When the opportunity presented itself to participate in an expedition into untouched Amazonian jungle to map an unexplored river - he was willing to die for it.

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Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter changed the stereotype of women in botany when they found a love for not the delicate flowers, but the cacti with thorns and the vegetation that thrived in the most inhospitable environments. They set out to do something that had never been done before, to be the first women to boat the entirety of the Colorado River and map out the flora of the Grand Canyon. If successful, they would be the first women to ever survive the trip.

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