In 2021, an enormous Salmon was shining through the skin of the Sholes Glacier. Snow was melting off blue glacier ice in the shape of this cultural and ecological keystone species of the Pacific Northwest, an emphatic reminder that glacier-fed watersheds, Salmon, and the health of the people of this region are inextricably linked. A curve of ablating ice became a carving, which led to another.

This ever-growing assemblage of woodcut waterbodies celebrates the lives of animals wondrously adapted to live in mountains covered by snow six to ten months of the year. Grey-crowned Rosy finches, tiny and rugged, sometimes nest on glaciers and feed on glacial ice worms. Wolverine and Lynx are snow-obligate carnivores, evolved for a life in deep snow. Snowshoe Hare molt to match the white of winter. Pika and Marmot make a living from lush alpine vegetation near talus piles. The persistence of these animals in the Pacific Northwest depends upon the future of our snowpack and glaciers, just as we do.