Here’s a second growth larch, fir, pine, cedar and spruce forest in the North Okanagan Valley. It has regrown largely with larch. Here is a cut from 4 years back. Seed trees […]
There Has Got to Be a Better Way
How to Get to Cascadia
Having trouble finding Cascadia, now that the US-Canadian Border is becoming fraught? Well… That’s right. You can get there. But maybe not the direct way. By plugging in? Well, you might get […]
Cascadia: A Braided Land 2
Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna The Two Cayuse Sisters, Wallula Presenters March 2: […]
Cascadia: A Braided Land
Poetry, Poetics and Scholars of Place in the Heart of Cascadia Saturday March 1 & Sunday March 2, 2025 Room: Art 366 Arts Building, UBC Okanagan Campus, Kelowna Asotin Presenters: For Day […]
The Salmon Shanties, reviewed.
It’s great to have readers! I set out to follow my river home and to sing the journey as a map. The Nkwentkwitkw, below Rattlesnake Ridge, photo by Harold Rhenisch I had […]
Rural or Urban or …?
The other day, here, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2024/10/17/what-does-rural-british-columbia-need/, I rephrased the question “What does rural British Columbia need?” as an entirely different one: “What do the land and water need?” Beaver Bay, Big Bar Lake. […]
What Does Rural British Columbia Need?
Well, respect, really. Dr. Sarah-Patricia Breen from Selkirk College is clear on that. The respect to be allowed self-determination. The respect to not be seen as a place somehow inferior, or substandard, […]
The Oregon Trail Redux: a Canadian Version
Yesterday, I introduced you to the tragedy of Narcissa Whitman. Her story, as my next post will how, remains relevant today, not the least because how she suffered as a woman in […]
60 Waillatpu 1: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman’s Big Mistake
Imagine if you could ride a horse out of your country and arrive in Heaven. Hillsideon the Kooskooskie River The land is written with stories, in stone, water and animals, across some […]
Nature is Dying, But We Can Fix That
Yes we can. Here is a picture of 200 years of history. This is not a picture of nature. That’s the strangest thing. The lake is managed, not for its own needs […]
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