Pacific Northwest Field Guide

For the road tripper, the Northwest can deliver just what you might expect in the way of evergreen mountainsides, misty coasts and snow-peaked volcanoes. But it can also unfurl an endless expanse of high desert or a roll of golden prairie. For every lush pocket of moss, there’s a dry ridge of dusty pine and juniper. The relationship between people and land is right on the surface here, dense and complex, a saga stretching back 10 millennia or more.