From the ages of fifteen to twenty-five Snyder hitchhiked a lot all over the country. He wanted “to learn the birds, smells, stars of places that he traveled”. By traveling often and seeing many different places it only contributed to an enlarged sense of place for him. As Snyder stated in his speech “Entering the Fiftieth Millenium”, he never lost sense of being a person of the Pacific Northwest, and that the forests and mountains of the northwest were his territory, a place to call his home.

After traveling through much of the forests in the northwest Snyder realized that there was an extreme amount of environmental degregation going on. There was heavy logging taking place and suburbs were rapidly moving outwards from the cities. He had such a love of the Cascades that he could not

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