Snow everywhere, right? Whew! Actually no. Around 20% of the land has no snow at all. There’s a whole world down there! Here’s the entrance to a weasel’s den. Here’s the sun […]
Rodent Breath is Best
The Lessons of Red Osier Dogwood
I went looking for light. In a grey world, it was all in the red osier dogwoods, stəktəkcxʷlɬp, the purifier, the beloved of moose. I spent some time with it as it turned […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 21: The City of the Okanagan
In keeping with my conviction that we would do better to build things than tear them down, I would like to propose a new form of civilization in the Okanagan Valley. By […]
How the British Columbia Government Looks After the Land and the Water
It doesn’t. If I look from my house towards the western shore of Okanagan Lake, I see this. The land has been burnt, slashed by logging roads, scarred by development and turned into an […]
The Colour of the Okanagan in Winter
Note, how the land folds 15 centimetres of snow inside itself. Note how the pale colours created by the sun in summer amplify it in the winter. Well, if you can even […]
The Canadian Invasion
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Christmas Rejoicing on Turtle Mountain
Let us praise even the cold. The terrible, iron cold. Let us give way and accept the story no more … … that the cold holds the land in its grip. […]
Bunch Grass: the Beavers of the Grasslands
Look at the wonder that is bunchgrass. In this country in which snow falls and soon evaporates into the air, the amount of water a plant can keep from either flowing away […]
For the Love of Bunch Grass
Quail footsteps. Grass footsteps. Beautiful.
The Real Work is to Take Down the Fences
The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]
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