| FEATURES |
| Soundings |
| 2001 Comes to the Northwest | David Sarasohn |
| Meriwether Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Western Power Crisis | Roy Hemmingway |
| Where We Have Been and Where We are Going |
| "Lord, you gotta make this happen." | Dennis L. Noble |
| A Daring Rescue at Great Cost |
| Running on Empty | Daniel Jack Chasan |
| In the Klamath Basin, there isn't enough water to go around. |
| One's View of Mount Rainier | Eric Redman |
| Does a Shifting View of the Mountain Reflect a Change in the Spirit of Seattle? |
| Sleep Talking | Robert Sack, M.D. |
| Sleeping with Stress |
| Slow Food | Gregory McClarren and Marda Stoliar |
| The Pleasures of Time and Taste |
| Poetry |
| "Snow" | John Haines |
| "Her Game" | Floyd Skloot |
| "Half Korean" | Patty Paine |
| "After Fires in Montana" | Walt McDonald |
| "Real Spin" | John Ledges |
| DEPARTMENTS |
| Editorial |
| Contributors |
| Letters |
| Crossword Puzzle | Matt Jones |
| Books | Edited by Dorian Wu |
| Excerpts from the work of Marjorie Sanders, Michael Byers, Lisa Pearson, Jason Brown, Jhumpa Lahiri and David Pinson |
| Travel | Kristen Kaye Robertson |
| Garden | Lee Neff |