This is not right: Similkameen River, January 14, 2026. photo by Harold Rhenisch This time of year, it should be a low river with clear water and green ice along the shore, […]
We Got This Wrong
A Crowded World
Here are three women walking down a corridor between two deer fences. Plus a coyote, as I showed you a few weeks back. Today, a bigger view. The upper fence ostensibly protects […]
Deer Fencing: It’s Not About Deer
Any government that invests in agriculture by investing instead in deer fencing to protect apple trees from deer should just keep its money… …because it doesn’t work.
The Sun Rises on a New Farming Year
At first, there was capital investment to create a fruit growing industry in British Columbia that could supply England and such colonies as Hong Kong and Australia with a homesick-for-England product: apples […]
Earth and Moon
The view from Earth. At this time of year, getting back to basics is best.
Land is Water and Water is Land
Land and water are land-and-water: one substance. Salish Sea, the Islands and the Coast Mountains Talk about this weave doesn’t have to start with words. Below is a conversation that places human […]
Land and Water are One (Again)
Northern Cascadia has vast amounts of land and water, yet both are too expensive for the people who live there. That’s one way of putting things. Another is that land and water […]
Roads to Nowhere
Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
We Can Do Better
The other day, I showed how little economy was actually generated by the Okanagan’s forests. 95% or so, in fact. Check it out, if you missed it. https://okanaganokanogan.com/2025/11/06/there-has-got-to-be-a-better-way/ This post continues the […]
Succession Planning & Racism in British Columbia’s Forests
In my previous post, I showed you a forest zoned for commercial use. It is in trouble. Here’s one zoned for protection. It is in trouble, too. You will begin to understand […]
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