Gardening on the Palouse
The area known to practically every Washingtonian as “the Palouse” is one of six large grassland communities in North America. The Palouse stretches from just south of Spokane to the Snake River...
View ArticleAn Exquisite Scar
Palouse Falls The trail down into the canyon below Palouse Falls is loose talus, poison oak, stinging nettles, and rattlesnakes. But mostly, it’s steep, dropping quickly through a notch in the...
View ArticleField-burning study proves inconclusive
Inland Northwest farmers may be breathing a little easier after seeing the results of a Washington State University and University of Washington study that showed no statistical increase in asthmatics’...
View ArticlePlants of the Wild
Tucked away in the heart of the Palouse is one of the best-known native-plant nurseries in the West. Plants of the Wild Nursery in Tekoa, Washington, grows and markets trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and...
View ArticleThriving in Rural America: Ochs uses computer technology to stay on family farm
Wanted: Person with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts to help design and create software programs; location: Dusty, Washington, population 10. These are just the kind of person whom Jon Ochs, president,...
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Track to the future
It was only a few decades ago that Northern Pacific Railroad ran daily trains from Spokane through Pullman and down to Lewiston. And train cars loaded with students and steamer trunks came over the...
View ArticleDesign presentations from the “Powering the Palouse” symposium
Bob Scarfo, an associate professor with Washington State University’s Interdisciplinary Design Institute, and his landscape architecture students explore the benefits of re-introducing passenger rail...
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Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way
Linda Russo Shearsman Books: 2015 Linda Russo translates the environmental characteristics of the Palouse from scenery to words in this slender volume of her poetry. The cohabitation between humans...
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Enoch Bryan’s Riviera
Enoch Bryan had been president of Washington State College for 16 years when he purchased 296 acres of fertile land on Brown’s Bar above the Snake River in 1909. His plan was to market an agricultural...
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The legacy lives on
It’s the cutest photo ever—innocent black eyes, little mottled snout covered with sand. Erim Gómez has won several awards for his angelic close-up of a spadefoot toad. The doctoral student in...
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Sara and Kevin Mader
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pullman’s Palouse Brand has seen a sharp uptick in online sales of its agricultural products, necessitating dozens of new hires. Employees have been working...
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