296: The Deadliest Avalanche in U.S. History. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
In 1910, two trains became stranded in Washington’s Cascade Mountains during a record-breaking snowstorm. After six harrowing nights, a massive avalanche swept them off the mountainside — the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history. More than a century later, one question still lingers: could the disaster have been prevented?
Sources:
“A ‘haunted hike’ brings Washington disaster to life,” by Courtney Flatt (Northwest Public Broadcasting, 2023).
“White Death in the Cascades,” by Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic Scope, 2022).
“The 1910 Wellington Train Disaster,” (Washington Our Home, 2021).
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche, by Gary Krist (2007).
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295: The Killing of K’iid K'yaas. Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site.
In 1997, a lifelong Canadian logger had reached the end of his rope. For years Grant Hadwin attempted to sound the alarm to the dangers of the logging industry, but his attempts to speak for the trees repeatedly fell on deaf ears. Ultimately, he did something almost unforgivable, he cut down K’iid K'yaas - a sacred, protected and beloved Sitka Spruce. His hopes of using the act to garner attention to the evils of logging backfired and shortly after committing the crime, Grant Hadwin disappeared forever.
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Sources:
Book: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Documentary: Hadwin's Judgement
Articles, Journals & Websites:
Haida Laas - Journal of the Haida Nation
Council of the Haida Nation
Haida Tourism
Gwaii Haanas / Government of Canada
Tapestry Institute: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge Into Life
New Yorker - The Golden Bough
The New York Times
Colorado Fire Camp
Wikipedia - Hecate Strait
Tree Sisters
British Columbia: An Untold History
The Nation
Haida Ethics and Values
Podcasts:
The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird - The Golden Spruce, Part One and Two
Videos:
Justinthetrees: What Happened to the Golden Spruce?
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294: Trail Tales 68
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293: DDT - So Safe You Can Eat It! Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
Today, more than 1 billion people around the world celebrate Earth Day—but decades before this global movement began, one woman laid the foundation. When aerial pesticide programs drenched the Northeast in chemicals like DDT, devastating ecosystems and killing thousands of wildlife species, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson sounded the alarm. Her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, ignited a nationwide reckoning with the hidden environmental costs of modern life.
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Resources:
The Sea Around Us, by Rachel Carson (1951).
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (1962).
“The Story of Silent Spring,” by the National Resources Defense Council (2015).
“The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson,” by Jill Lepore (The New Yorker, 2018).
“The Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson as a Woman Scientist” by Mark Stoll (Environment & Society Portal, 2020).
“Rachel Carson Memorial,” (Atlas Obscura, 2023).
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Hosted by two friends who share a passion for the wilderness and a fascination with what can go wrong there, each week hosts Danielle and Cassie explore the darker side of our National Parks and explore these treasured places in a whole new way - because behind the iconic arches and towering trees lie layered histories, grisly encounters, extraordinary stories of survival, tragic ends and so much more. But it isn’t always chills and thrills. By sharing inspiring tales and their desire for protecting our planet’s wild places, they hope the show will inspire listeners to lace up their own hiking boots and take a walk into the wild to create meaningful adventures of their own.
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