Reading water is almost easy when it is frozen. Okanagan Lake is a large body of water, 351 square kilometres of it, in fact. To put that in perspective, here are some […]
Reading the Water on a Winter Day
What is this Red Stuff in the Lake?
This is the shore of Okanagan Lake in Vernon. I’ve never seen it this colour before. It doesn’t look good, though. Normally, it’s the colour of ground-up granite, which around here is […]
A Really Big Beaver
Really Big. Talk about a billboard showing us the way! And in case you missed it, here it is again (well, most of it; it’s tail is in the clouds to the […]
Fishing for Water in the Okanagan
Literally. It’s done with fishing line in wet winter air. We can send rovers to Mars to find water and life, and we can figure out how to harvest water from a […]
Birds Lost. Plants in Crisis. Help.
Scientific American reports that with the shift of animal habitat due to climate change, 60% of plants are stranded without the ability to move, because they rely on animals to move their […]
What Deer Think of Fences
Not much. However, it’s a handy way to make a trail that a coyote doesn’t follow. They follow all the rest. We could really play chess with coyotes by putting up random […]
Rebuilding the Grasslands 5: Deer, Coyotes and Fire
Over the previous 4 days, I have shown you how some changes to civic land-use legislation can help rebuild the grasslands around our houses, while protecting us from climate change in the […]
Rebuilding Sustainability 4: The Sagebrush Catalyst
With a few changes in environmental legislation in the current weed desert in which we plant houses in the catastrophically failing Okanagan grasslands, we can live in a land of plenty instead […]
Building the Land With Flowers. Really.
Welcome to the 21st century! In this century, we’ve finally learned that a grassland is nothing without flowers. Here’s why: That’s right, bees, 500 kinds of wild bees and wasps that live […]
New Land Use Regulations for Okanagan Grassland Communities
Communities include grass and flowers, animals, insects, birds, trees, water, gravity, people, sun, rock, dust, soil and wind. Each contributes to maintaining a community balance. ANew communities built in the grasslands need […]
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