Perhaps a museum is for preserving valuable cultural artifacts of more than personal significance and which might otherwise not be available for purposes of public renewal. Things like this: Pumphouse on the […]
What is a Museum For?
Moving Borders
According to the old European story of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, this is the time of the year when the maiden earth descends to spend half a year with her husband […]
Political Shenanigans
Who owns the land? Coyotes, I think. Still, issues of human land use remain politically troubled. The area in the midground of this picture, for example, is part of an area of […]
Feral Agriculture
Consider what happens when our plants escape our fences: Feral Grapes Growing Without Water Who says grapes need to be grown in monocultured vineyards, on expensive wires, with bird guns driving the […]
The University and the Garden
Today, Wednesday, October 26, I’ll be using my collection of East German photographs to anchor a talk about the garden at the heart of all modern universities, and the key role that […]
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 […]
The Mystery of the Birds Deepens
On Saturday, I pointed out that the birds and bears are absent from the north end of Okanagan Lake. About a hundred miles to the south, it is a different story: Elderberries […]
Where are the Birds?
Used to be that the waxwings, crows, and robins would pretty well pick the land clean down to its bones. And now? The Birds are Gone What is a poor elderberry bush […]
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