The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has just released a story about the decline of the Kokanee fishery in the Okanagan’s Wood Lake this year. In short, local fishermen have been unable to find […]
Kokanee in Peril
Choke Cherries and Pinot Noir
I think it’s time to liberate the things of the world. Choke Cherries, Unite! Yup, as humans we’re used to talking about things with words, but here in the Okanagan Okanogan we […]
The Earth is Alive
We are not alone. This is fantastic news. Burrow in the Valley It looks like the resident is at home, too, waiting out the months of bad hunting. Such times of rest […]
The Border Remains Open
Local residents and rare populations of desert shrews will continue to be able to cross the line in the sand between the vineyards and hayfields of Chopaka and the nut orchards and […]
Transportation: It’s What We Do
The East Kelowna cherry farmer Hugh Dendy, whose family has been farming East Kelowna since farming in East Kelowna began, told me once that Kelowna’s decline into a strip mall paradise began […]
Playing with Land
The British Columbia Agricultural Land Reserve Commission, created to protect agricultural land from development, has just approved the transformation of 10 acres of agricultural land on the Okanagan College Property in Vernon […]
Ice Wine and a Riesling Fit for Kings
Ice wine and Riesling are both cold climate wines. For a riesling, let’s look at Cedar Creek, in Okanagan Mission. For ice wine, let’s go to the far north, in Vernon. If anything […]
Okanogan Earthquake
Breaking News: Earthquake: 1:09 a.m., November 18, 2011. Okanogan, WA! Perhaps for the first time since Mexican drivers drove cattle through in 1858 to feed the California miners who had trudged north […]
Ogopogo: Film Star!
Well, it’s just so much fun to have a lake monster, that pretty much anything goes. Here’s the latest video. A still from that video? Sure: Newest YouTube Star: A Wave on Lake […]
Chikamin Pish
It’s steelhead season. These famed ocean-going trout, the greatest sport fish of the Pacific Northwest, come back every year to spawn. Unlike their cousins, the salmon, they then turn around and go […]
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