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 
Hello, Harold. If you check the November 15, 2016, issue of Just Farmers, you’ll find another use for dead trees (of which you are, of course, already aware). http://www.justfarmers.wordpress.com (on the top ribbon). Dead trees are lovely things. Sometimes I feel a little sad when I have to cut one down because it a danger to people or buildings even though I also can use the firewood.
Curt
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That’s for sure! Anyone who hasn’t seen a Western Bluebird vanish into an aspen and then fly back out again and vanish into the sky, well, what can I say about such poverty!
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