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In Search of the Original 'Seattle'

A naturalist conducts a botanical mystery tour—call it CSI: Seattle—scouring the modern city for clues of the landscape that greeted the first white settlers. Giant trees there were, but what else? From place-names to ancient groves, he traces the answers in our own backyards.

A A A Comments By David B. Williams Wednesday, Feb 16 2005
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David B. Williams is a Seattle-based natural history writer whose work has appeared in GeoTimes, High Country News, The Seattle Times, and, in May, Smithsonian magazine. He is a former park ranger who worked at Arches National Park in Utah and at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Massachusetts. This article has been adapted from a chapter from his forthcoming book, The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle, to be published by WestWinds Press this June.

"The Street-Smart Naturalist," ©2005, with permission of WestWinds Press, an imprint of Graphic Arts Center Publishing
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