The Naselle Timberland Library was built and opened in November 1991. Library service in Naselle, Washington started on April 21, 1986, and originally there was only an experimental mini-library that served the population by bookmobile.
At a time when large corporations have had an unprecedented degree of power to impose themselves on the landscape in the name of jobs, a group of citizens, environmental activists, native tribes and businesses in the Pacific Northwest have dealt a series of stunning blows against development.
Since the 1990s, a group of large mining companies, railroads and maritime terminal operators have sought to use the Northwest’s...