I will be 85 in a few days. My grandparents homesteaded in Oregon. Our family carries the memory of old growth forests, the rivers alive with salmon, the wildness and beauty that used to be. [Read More]
About Gwendolyn Endicott
In My Back Yard
We are so deeply shrouded that we are unaware even of the Beauty that surrounds us. Suddenly, we are startled aware by a flock of peeps (Sandpipers), flying in an orchestrated synchronicity.
Drinking From the Stream of Time
Whereas the Viking ships sought adventure in conquest of outer seas, Odin leads us on an inner adventure in the deep Sea of Self. [Read More]
Nine Minutes
On the Winter Solstice, Dec. 21, at noon in Manzanita, a group of Watershed Heroes spoke at a meeting of the Tillamook County Commission.
IF THE FOREST COULD SAY…
The Welsh people had a word for the feeling of love and belonging to the land — hiraeth. Families and clans that lived generation after generation in the same place experienced a deep knowing of the land that did not translate simply as “ownership.”
ODF and Boise Cascade Agree: Clearcut is “sustainable forestry”
We are greatly disillusioned with the policies of Oregon Department of Forestry… [Read More]
Words gone astray in a landscape of grey
Words are not only useful in helping us to see, they also carry a powerful emotional charge. [Read More]
Final Plea to Save the Homesteader Forest
We are up to the wire on saving the Homesteader forest. But I am told it is not over until the auction.
Spirit of the Winds
People who live on the North Coast will tell you that South Wind loves to travel up the coast in the winter time changing things as he goes. In the old days, he had many headbands. [Read More]
Women Talk Forest
I have been following with deep concern the proposed logging of the “Homesteader Tract” in the Buster Creek Basin of Clatsop County. I would like to believe that Oregon Department of Forestry has some sense of the value of these older forests whose fate they hold in their hands. [Read More]