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 
This is a very disturbing trend and the exact same thing is happening in Niagara. Every growing thing replaced by posts, wire, plastic netting and grape stumps. Then add the background noise of bird cannons and wind machines to alter the climate. Horrid.
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Sadly, it is also the perfect image of white supremacy and assimilation. I’m sorry to hear that this illness has hit beautiful Niagara, too.
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Great post 😁
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I’ve never seen this before Harold…I agree disturbing…on many layers…😞
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These images are like science fiction. Disturbingly vivid and perhaps beautiful in a dystopian movie sort of way.
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I’ve long believed that sci-fi describes the settled world better than any other currently available mode. Sadly.
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