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.
Okanagan Okanogan 
I think in such immediate terms. Nice to see quick regeneration. Would it help to harvest, knock down, help breakdown, create sawdust, utilize what sound wood there is? Are not the dead standing giants a menace to be near for decades?
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No, the grass came back, the trees fell within 4 years, the standing ones are habit for woodpeckers, the fallen ones for termites and bears, plus they store water, and new trees came up within 5 years. Cutting the trees, where it was done, was disastrous. Amazing, eh!
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You, Harold, are always here to lift our spirits, way up into “Heaven”. Or, at least, towards the infinite Universe expressing itself in infinite variety of ways. Thank you.
And you do it all, without charging a penny. You ARE a GUARDIAN CHILD of THE UNIVERSE.
Live long, and Prosper!
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You, too, Dan. Thanks.
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