NATURE IN THE CITY
Issue 24, Summer 2024
Autumn in the courtyard. photo by Paul Brians
NATURE IN THE CITY
Issue 24, Summer 2024
Managing Editor: John F. Williams
(Table of Contents is below this intro)
A little green in the city. photo by John F. Williams
For this issue, we’re doing something a little different.
Normally, Salish Magazine tells stories of nature, trying to fill in some of the gaps in the media which focuses largely on people and people-stuff.
But in this issue, we’re showing nature in the context of that people-stuff: Nature in the City.
This issue starts out with an article about an urban park which changes dramatically through the seasons. There is also an awesome collection of poems. There are also articles about birds and window collisions, hummingbirds, fossils in the city, a pocket beach in Seattle, a pond recovery in Vancouver, Canada, and the ecosystems in our indoor spaces.
Bird droppings on a window. photo by John F. Williams
I also stumbled across an interesting short video about ants in the city. It was produced by PBS, and tells of benefits which ants provide in cities.
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Happy Summer!
Issue 24: Nature in the City: Table of Contents
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Pocket Beach
by Julie Jeanell Leung
Summer 2024
Not far from the skyscrapers in downtown Seattle, Olympic Sculpture Park offers access to a shoreline. At low tide, visitors can see abundant biodiversity in this urban habitat.
Avalon Pond
by Joshua Ralph
Summer 2024
In the southeast corner of what is today Vancouver, BC, lies a 40-hectare park, a window into the multifaceted relationship between urbanized centres and the natural world
Wild Birds and Window Collisions
by Jeff Beyl
Summer 2024
It happened again this morning. At first, I thought it was a gunshot. Then I noticed a bird, a spotted towhee, lying on the wood deck just below my large window.
Salamanders, Stormwater, and Skateboards
by McCleary, Sandoval, Lambert, Kerwin
Summer 2024
Yauger Park is a space in the urban environment where people can connect with nature and enjoy time outdoors. It’s also a key part of Olympia’s stormwater management system.
The Wild Indoors
by Sarah Ottino
Summer 2024
While bats, rats, mice and other animals may try to make our home theirs, until we boot them out, there is a more permanent but fluid ecosystem in our indoor spaces.
Neanderthals in the House
by David B. Williams
Summer 2024
One way that nature shows up in the city is as fossils of things from leaves to small marine creatures. There are many options for finding urban fossils in Seattle.
Joy & Woes: Anna’s Hummingbirds
by Anya Gavrylko
Summer2024
I saw five hummingbirds visit nearby red flowering currant. Then two hummingbirds flew towards what they believed to be a tree, but what was in fact a deadly illusion.
Poetry 24
by multiple poets
Summer 2024
From birds to a coyote, from rain to a magnolia, these poems venture into various views of nature in the city. Plus there are stunning images to illustrate some of the poems.
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