Grant s Getaways: Remembering Oregon photographer Steve Terrill
Terrill s work has been featured in books and hundreds of magazines, including the likes of Audubon, Sierra Club and National Geographic. Author: Grant McComie Updated: 4:39 PM PST January 19, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore Steve Terrill’s love affair with Oregon was deep and lifelong. It was often on full display whenever he visited the top of Rowena Crest in the Columbia River Gorge.
Not long ago, he strolled a section of trail that stretched toward the glorious Columbia River. He stopped every few yards to admire the incredible riot of color that had broken out.
“It’s an explosion of color out here, isn’t it,” exclaimed an excited Terrill during a morning-long photographic field trip to the Tom McCall Preserve at Rowena. “All the flowers are out and blooming. It’s like a rebirth of the world again … so beautiful out here.”
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A communityâs health is tied to the health of its land and rivers, scientists, environmentalists and Indigenous people agreed last week at a two-day Columbia River conference.
Speakers at the âLower Columbia River Estuary: One River, Ethics Matterâ conference shared the myriad ways that the Columbia River shapes their lives and why it needs to be protected.
âWe all have an obligation to save our water. The water is ours to protect, for our ancestors and future generations to come,â said Philip Harju, chairman of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
Last weekâs two-day conference helped the approximately 500 attendees examine the history of the local watershed, the riverâs connections to Indigenous peoples and the future of stewardship for the river, especially as the Columbia River Treaty is renegotiated.