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 
Some mouse planted a garden of its own with seeds carried for the winter storage?
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I love this theory. I’m going to keep my eye on these things. There are several up on the hill.
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“Don’t recognize it, but at a guess I would say it is a small native plant with an aphid infestation which causes severe abnormally swollen leaves in which some of the life stages mature. Much less likely it’s some kind of virus.” -sent from a plant pathologist
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Thank you! That is a fascinating analysis. I’ll keep my eye on these things. There are a few of them out there.
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