Little Makers

“A man inflicts himself on his environment.”
-Frank Herbert, in an interview with Willis E. McNelly, 1969

In Frank Herbert’s landmark novel, Dune, sandtrout were responsible for depleting the planet Arrakis of water. Attempts to terraform Dune into a livable environment mirror the creation of Dune Peninsula Park at Point Defiance on the former slag pile created by the now-defunct ASARCO Smelter.