This is to answer your question as to how to find the essay on Spokane’s champion and historic trees. The easiest way is to use the quick search box at the top right of the front page and type in “spokane’s champion and historic trees” between quotes. Actually “Spokane’s champion” works just as well.  Quote marks not optional. If you type in Spokane trees (no quote marks), you will bring up all essays with both Spokane and trees in the keywords. For some searches this will bring up way too many essays. For example “Seattle park” brings up 74 essays and each one is on a Seattle park or on some aspect of Seattle parks. Seattle park (no quotation marks) brings up 466 essays, one, for example, on a Seattle building that includes a firm named James Parke & Co.

 Results for any search come up in three columns. Those are the three libraries. The Cyberpedia Library (overview essays) in the left hand column is organized alphabetically. The Timeline Library, the center column, is organized chronologically. When you enter an essay in the Timeline Library you can click through time by clicking “browse to next essay.”

It is also well worth going to the Advanced Search page, which is unlike any other Advanced Search page on the Internet.

You can go to the timeline bar and browse through the 1850s (or any timeframe). You can click on the county menu and see all essays pertaining to Spokane County (or any county). There’s a map search, by region. There’s a topic search (including Environment).

Try it and let me know if you have any questions.