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 
On a related topic. . . when we lived in Delta, our rented farmhouse had an old orchard in it. Healthy trees, but not pruned for 25 or more years. I planted some saplings and all of them got canker very badly. What to do about it? An old European nursery-man said: “Oh, you have to grow full-size trees–they are much tougher.”
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The canker comes in the winter damp. Blows on the wind for many kilometres. It hits the younger branches on the old trees too. The cankers don’t stay infectious, though, but the damage is done. Some varieties are hurt more by it than others. Macs really suffer. So do cox orange and golden delicious.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:28 AM Okanagan Okanogan wrote:
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