Forest Bathing Note 4: Why Sarah Bergmann Clashes with Bee People

by Charles Mudede Charles Mudede
The length of Cheasty Greenspace is 1.2 miles. As I wrote in my feature on forest bathing, it begins near the Columbia City Station and ends around where the elevated the Link train leaves Mount Baker Station and turns to the underworld of the Beacon Hill tunnel. The reason the forest is there is simple to see from the light rail: it’s on a steep slope. And it's hard to make money on slopes. As a consequence, the whole of it was left alone to grow—and