Cascadia rises out of the seabeds of the continental plains, where a hot, conductive current rises from deep in the earth and shears and curls around the impenetrable ancient rock of the North American […]
Cascadia: Land of Fire
The Beaches of Cascadia
If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. …very exotic volcanoes… … in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes …. … in five different island chains over 150 million […]
Return to the Snake River at the End of Time
High above the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, in the southeastern reach of my plateau homeland, the Camas Prairie catches the sky. The camas once bloomed in blue fields here. […]
The Voice of a Great Cascadian River
Chapman’s Bar: a gravel bar in the Fraser River.As the heat breaks, the rain begins in the ancestral homeland of the grassland peoples. Some rocks never dried out. The spring river made […]
Be Like the Mouse Beneath the Hawk
This is Pahto, mistakenly called Mount Adams. She is one of the wives of the sun. Look at her rising like the sun over the White Swan plain. We’re a long way […]
Cascadia: Where the Sea Breaks on the Land
Cascadia is the place where water, air and land meet …. … in waves …. … and boundaries. The stones here … … are also part of the mixing of water and […]
Human Life Under the Sea
Water is mysterious stuff. So is air. Sometimes air holds up water.Sometimes water holds up air. But there’s something else going on. Mud.What you’re looking at here is the bottom of a […]
Time Travel Among the Volcanoes
Oh, just a little bit of rock blasted away to make the road cut a couple miles north of Satus Pass, just before cresting the burns and coming down to the Columbia River […]
The Power of Rock
Life is a great force on this planet, but so is rock. Just look at this one!The interplay of this kind of steadiness and resistance within the web of life can be most […]
Water is Energy
Sand is energy, too. Stream Running onto Mackenzie Beach, Tofino Together, they are yet another energy.
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