Ian Rose is a freelance writer and digital marketer based outside Portland, Oregon. He first fell in love with coastal ecosystems while studying seabird colonies in the Columbia River estuary and the Bering Strait. When he’s not at his desk, he can most reliably be found birding the coast, forests, and wetlands of the Pacific Northwest or tending his unruly backyard garden.
One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.
