EDITORS' NOTE		California Northern: A Meditation on Place
INTERVIEW		Mark Arax "There's something that's righteous, that's sweet about someone just digging down into the earth where they are..."
ENVIRONMENT		A Renewable Conflict A rural valley near Hollister meets California's clean energy problem. by Casey Mills
PHOTO ESSAY		The Eucalyptus of Northern California A real and imagined history. by Casey Mills and Kate Sawyer
POLITICS		Who Was Jerry Brown? What his former tenure as governor can tell us about how he'd handle a second chance. by Robert Cruickshank
MYTHOLOGY		"Hot Mountain" by Matt Gleeson
FICTION		"The Flying Dutchman" by Paul Barrett
ESSAY		Regionalism in the Western Dissolve The dialectics of California culture create a fraught backdrop for the current "return to place." by Richard Mills