We investigate the ways the creatures along the Northwest Coast (green and myrcorrizal and parasitic and prey and predator and fierce and extirpated-not-endangered and introduced-benign and invasive) relate to each other. We mourn the extirpation of populations-not-formally-subspecies. We're amateur. We're in Pugetsound-becoming-Spokanevalley-soon. We also look to other lands, to learn.