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 […]
The Voice of a Great Cascadian River
By These Fish We Take Our Measure
From the shore where fresh water mingles with salt …. …and the tide comes in and out and humans erect the stories of themselves they have always lifted into the sky… … […]
Human Young in a Line
Social training in its natural scale. Summer Kids Activity Group
Houses Made of Grass
Old Growth Bunchgrass. Nimiipuu long house. The canvas was a modern addition. Traditionally, these communal houses would be made of reeds. Perhaps you can see the model? Look again? The […]
Wasps: Workers in the Furnace of the Sun
It takes a particle of light 100,000 years to rise from the core of the sun to its surface, eight minutes to make it to Earth, and no time at all to complete […]
Loons in Trees
Trees in the lake … … and loons in the trees. That’s good. ~ Otter Marsh, Big Bar Lake
Birth and Life in the Grasslands
In the grasslands of the intermountain west, a seed doesn’t need to be planted in the soil. It falls into a crack in the living skin of the earth, which grows over […]
What Colour is the Okanagan?
This is the historical colour. This is the colour today. This is the result of overgrazing.
Landscape, Colonialism and the Unused Two-Car Garage
A landscape is a stretch of land that has been improved by rational planning, sculpting of the land, and the addition of shrubberies, lanes, paths, buildings and other aesthetic features designed for […]
Environmental Crime in the Grasslands
It is time to set the one ton beasts out to munch. Here is a muncher in her lunch. And here are the kids playing on the rocks. Now, […]
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