What’s yours? Q: I live in an HOA in Corvallis. Every year or two we pay a lot to have the bark dust blown into the beds around bushes. It’s blown in to save the expense of humans shoveling it in.

at the mouth of the Puyallup River on Puget Sound. “We know how important cedar bark harvesting is to the indigenous people in this area. That’s why (the Department of Natural Resources ...

On a promontory above Puget Sound, a Douglas fir with arms bent at right angles stands above a quiet cove, where shellfish would have been gathered, long before this place was settled by newcomers.

He explains that weaving cedar bark for his tribe today is not only an art, but a metaphor for the preservation of community through the practice of cultural traditions and resource conservation.