A 1864 map of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, with parts of modern day Montana and Wyoming.
Samuel Augustus Mitchell map/Wikimedia Commons
As our colleague Cassandra Profita retires the Ecotrope blog to fully join the EarthFix team, we're taking the opportunity to start an EarthFix team blog.
A ‘waypoint,’ as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “an intermediate point on a route or line of travel.”
Our goal in blogging is to provide waypoints en route to our deeper coverage of Northwest environment issues. It’s a place where we can quickly bring you up to speed on the latest regional news and make connections between what's happening here to relevant national and international events. We'll take you behind-the-scenes and give you sneak previews of stuff we’re working on. We'll share fun, interesting, inspiring, bizarre items we're geeking out on. Waypoints is also a venue for us (that includes you, our readers) to converse, exchange ideas and share our love (and sometimes rants) of this place, the grand Pacific Northwest.
As always, we welcome your thoughts, ideas and questions. Connect with us by email, through our social channels on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and in the comments of all our stories and posts.
-- Toni Tabora-Roberts