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.
Poplars Under the Eye of the Snow
Darkness helps.
Okanagan Okanogan 
Thanks for your persistence characterizing “the dark” … I’m just beginning to get it!
I wish you good health and joy for 2014
Betsy
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I’m going to have to get the right pictures so I can explore it in depth.
I’m really looking forward to 2014, thanks!
2013 was great, well, most of it, but I feel like things are on track.
best
Harold
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