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Sarah Gilman

Sarah Gilman is a freelance writer and editor who covers the environment, science, and the arts from Portland, Oregon. She's also a contributing editor at High Country News. In addition to HCN, Gilman's work has appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, The Guardian, and The Last Word on Nothing, among others.

Sarah Gilman's Latest Articles

Life After Timber

What's a community to do when outside forces and ecological realities threaten the very industry on which it's built?

Young-growth Sitka spruce and western hemlock logs stacked along the edge of Good Faith Lumber’s wood lot, near Thorne Bay, Alaska.
Old-Growth Logging’s Last Stand?

Clearcutting ancient trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest makes little sense—ecologically, climatically, perhaps even economically. So why is it so hard to stop?