This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough Henry Nancy
This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough Henry Nancy The Columbia Slough in Portland, Oregon, often gets a bad rap. They remodel the home, plant an organic garden, study the birds, and battle…
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This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough Henry Nancy
The Columbia Slough in Portland, Oregon, often gets a bad rap. They remodel the home, plant an organic garden, study the birds, and battle with moles, nutrias, and beavers that gnaw their trees and uproot their produce. It's been called a "swamp," an "open sewer," even the "slough of despond." But clean-up efforts in recent years have begun to rehabilitate the slough's reputation and restore its value as a thin ribbon of connectivity for migrating birds and year-round wildlife.In their environmental memoir, This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough, Nancy Henry and Bruce Campbell take possession of an old log house bordering the Buffalo Slough (a side channel of the Columbia Slough).
In their new vest-pocket Valhalla, the couple observes "rough magic" in action as the natural world adapts to the heavy-metal pandemonium of the unnatural world. Truck