Unsettling Ecologies:
Colonial Forestry vs.
Tribal Sovereignty
on the Olympic Peninsula

This zine is a reportback from the eight-week Olympic Forest Ecology field course held between Squaxin, Twana, Chimacum, and Klallam lands in late winter-early spring of 2025. We (two nonnative collaborators and guest facilitators) write with two intentions: to pass on knowledge shared during a day focused on clearcut logging, for our wider communities’ further learning as we organize against intensifying colonial extraction; and, to raise awareness around the work of a current Chimacum landback project led by Naoime Dawn Krienke, on whose territory we gathered that cold weekend.

Woundscapes:

Visions at the Precipice

This zine delves into the scars left by ecological trauma, colonialism, and disconnection, while celebrating the resilience and beauty found in the natural world and our shared humanity.

Printed in its first edition in honor of Cascadian Yule MMXXIV, Woundscapes is a testament to the power of storytelling as a tool for healing and reconnection.

Join us in wandering the woundscapes of Earth and self—where the darkness speaks, the ancestors whisper, and the seeds of renewal await.

Featuring poetry, prose, and art by:

Heron: Steh-Chass https://linktr.ee/the_green_heron

N. Tz.

Ocean: Ocean's poetry, essays and fiction are known for their resuscitation of the mythic and their contribution to literary animism. https://www.mirrorflower.org/ @mirrorflower_ocean

R.W. Ashentide

Lucas Schuster: Crafter, caregiver, devotee of grief, storyteller, & place based learner. Currently living on the ancestral lands of the Chimacum.

Sophia Nothing: Pop Star

C.J.H.: Bardo Drift

Sammy Fielding

Marlene Seven Bremner: marlenesevenbremner.com

Leucanthemum, Duwamish River: IG @leuc.anthemum

Vanessa Skantze: Vanessa Skantze is a Butoh artist, teacher, writer and co-creator of Seattle DIY space Teatro de la Psychomachia. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1034041181

Ginko, Braided Fables: IG @braided.fables

Cover Artwork and Severed Branches Press logo by Kyle Bradshaw/Ovatum Art https://www.ovatumart.com/