I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Canada Geese Barking at the Glaciers
Okanagan Okanogan 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers_in_Norway
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Thanks for the glaciers. It sounds like the geese were successful and sent them to you! For interest’s sake, not far to the west this corner of the earth has glaciers aplenty, too, including what because of altitude and extreme close proximity to the sea might be some of the last glaciers on earth, should mass glacial melting occur. The ones I’m talking about are the big continental glaciers (here they were two miles deep), that ended in the Columbia Basin to the south. When they melted 10,000 years ago, this valley, for about 200 kilometres, was one of numerous giant lakes created by ice dams between the mountain ranges of the North Pacific Coast. When they drained, suddenly and extremely rapidly, they created the cataclysmic landforms of the present, such as the Scablands of Eastern Washington and the Fraser River Canyon. The large lakes today, including 140 km long Okanagan Lake in the above image, are glacial water. Okanagan Lake is rather unique among them, as in its case all this fossil glacial water lies within a near-desert. There are continued demands to use it for irrigation and domestic water supplies, because common understanding does not understand that it is not replenish-able. <>
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