Cascadia Times

06/22/2024

If you're in Yachats this weekend and find yourself in a literary mood, check out a reading from our new book Canopy of Titans. Jessica Applegate and I will share key findings from the book. 2pm Sunday Yachats Lions Club 344 4th St. Hope to see you there!

06/15/2024

Jessica Applegate Canopy of Titans is doing pretty well in book awards season. Today we learned that our book has won it's fifth award, taking first place in the National Indie Book Awards in the category of Environment.

We've also been a Finalist in the 2024 OREGON BOOK AWARDS,
Silver Medalist in the Nautilus Book Awards,
Silver Medalist in the IPPY Independent Publisher Book Awards, and
Honorable Mention in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

06/06/2024

Canopy of Titans has won another award -- honorable mention in the Foreword Review of Books INDIES Awards in the category of Ecology/Environment. Jessica Applegate

These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Ecology & Environment winners of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

05/28/2024

Canopy of Titans also won a Silver Medal in the ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, which honor the year's best independently published titles from around the world. Jessica Applegate

https://ippyawards.com/179/2024-medalists-50-88

05/28/2024

The love for Canopy of Titans keeps pouring in! This week we received a Silver Medal in Restorative Earth Practices from the Nautilus Book Awards, whose mission is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth. Jessica Applegate

Nautilus Book Awards Winners 2024 for Categories 1-10

03/15/2024

Many thanks to Michael Gaskill for featuring our book Canopy of Titans on two episodes of the Coast Range Podcast. Your can access the podcast wherever you get your podcasts as well as at 13 community radio stations in western Oregon and Washington. Click the link for a list of stations. Jessica Applegate

Coast Range Radio At Coast Range Radio, we interview folks who work to build just communities that provide for people and the natural world. We are particularly interested in the connections between Oregon’s forests, social justice, and the climate crisis. Coast Range Radio is on all podcasting se...

03/15/2024

We're so grateful to be named a finalist for two INDIES Book of the Year Awards! Foreword Review of Books named Canopy a finalist for best book on Nature and best book on Ecology and the Environment. Winners will be announced in June Jessica Applegate

"Canopy of Titans" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction). The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines......

01/23/2024

Wowza! Our book, Canopy of Titans, is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Awards. Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate are thrilled to be in the company of so many stellar writers. Check it out! Literary Arts OR Books Jessica Applegate Paul Koberstein

Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Awards finalists. Winners will be announced live on April 8, 2024.

01/15/2024

My co-author Paul Koberstein got mysteriously kicked off Facebook, so I can't tag him. Please share this event with those you think would be interested. The event is in partnership with 350 Seattle and Legacy Forest Defense CoalitionLegacy Forest Defense Coalition! Details are in the photo below. The link to our book is: https://orbooks.com/catalog/canopy-of-titans/ and is found in bookstores everywhere. We now offer a Kindle edition and an audiobook option.
Many thanks, comrades!

11/28/2023

11/28/2023

Allowing the liquidation of old-growth forests could set off another era of conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest. An excerpt from Canopy of Titans published today in Earth Island Journal. With Jessica Applegate

Allowing the liquidation of old-growth forests could set off another era of conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest.

11/24/2023

Why Biden's $50 billion wildfire strategy won't work. Our latest investigation in Undark Magazine. Many thanks to the Fund for Investigative Journalism. By Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate

Opinion | The administration’s plan to thin forests ignores an important way that wildfires spread and set houses aflame.

11/13/2023

Tune in to KBOO 8 am on Wednesday morning Nov 15 where I will chat with host Paul Roland about Canopy of Titans, the Pacific Coast Temperate Rainforest and the climate. 90.7 FM in Portland
104.3 FM in Corvallis, and 91.9 FM in Hood River. Paul Alkire Roland Jessica Applegate KBOO 90.7 FM.

Today's guest, Paul Koberstein, co-founded Cascadia Times in 1995 and has been editor since its inception. A journalist for 40 years, Koberstein was a staff writer for The Oregonian and Willamette Week. He and Kathy Durbin were two of the first mainstream journalists to cover the "timber wars" of th...

11/13/2023

Here’s your chance to talk all about CANOPY OF TITANS and meet with the authors noon to 4 pm on Nov 19 at Portland Audubon's ! Not only will you get a chance to get a signed book, but you’ll also get a chance to take home the perfect nature-inspired gift ahead of the busy holiday season.

Location: Viking Pavilion on the Portland State University Campus

Shop online at the 40th Wild Arts Festival for art and books that celebrate the natural world.

10/12/2023

The Couch Street window at Powell's.

09/23/2023

The reviews of Canopy of Titans are coming in!

Read the whole review here: https://undark.org/2023/09/15/book-review-the-rainforest-in-our-backyard/