Features
Baseball is a Family – We hear about his time with the Padres; about teammates Dave Winfield, Willie McCovey, and Tito Fuentes; how he’d faced Hank Aaron and Johnny Bench and Pete Rose and Joe Morgan; and how a tear of his rotator cuff had brought an end to his major league career. by Linda Kittell
The tie that binds – No matter what you want to blame—predatory pricing, vertical integration, foreign competition, globalization, urban sprawl—the fact of the matter is, rural America is packing it in. At least the rural America of our memory or imagination.. by Tim Steury
WEB EXCLUSIVE–Recipe: Stuffed Peppers from the Harrah Café
WEB EXCLUSIVE–Galleries: Harrah and Pullman
Where water meets desert – Among locals, you occasionally hear the word “wasteland” used to describe sagebrush-studded lands that biologists prefer to call native shrub steppe. It’s impossible to take such a harsh view when Robert Kent is your guide to the Columbia Basin Wildlife Areas. by Eric Apalategui
WEB EXCLUSIVE–Gallery: Where water meets desert – Photos of the Columbia Basin by Bill Wagner
Panoramas
Getting a feel for archaeology
Conference brings Plateau tribes and WSU a few steps closer
Jennifer Lynn: Barreling out of the chute
Student engineers learn by doing
Departments
FIELD NOTES: New Zealand mud snails: A tiny gastropod is a major problem here—not there
SEASONS|SPORTS: Meeting the challenge
Tracking
Woodley collects, preserves flies
Books, etc.
The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre
Children at Promise: 9 Principles to Help Kids Thrive in an At-Risk World
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks
On the cover: Former San Diego Padres pitcher Joe McIntosh ’73 and his daughter Molly. Read story “Baseball is a Family.”