black blue and yellow textile

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.

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.

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