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The Pheasants are Messing With You (and the Coyotes, Too)
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
5. A Second Woman and Her Dowry
Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
49. Pierre's Hole, Part 1
Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
The Day the Sky Came Down to Earth
The Organic Machine
Bald Eagles Flirting in the Okanagan
Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.

Be Like the Chickadees

By Harold Rhenisch on January 23, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too

The Future Looks Like This

By Harold Rhenisch on January 22, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]

Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!

By Harold Rhenisch on January 21, 2013 • ( 6 Comments )

There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]

What Do You Say to a Glacier?

By Harold Rhenisch on January 20, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

To see the last ice age up close, all you need to do is go to the mountains on the northern fringe of the desert that stretches from Central Mexico through California, […]

Winter Sunset

By Harold Rhenisch on January 19, 2013 • ( 4 Comments )

For weeks, I have been growing increasingly excited about the luminous, directionless white light that has been filtering down through the clouds. Yesterday, I pointed out how the sun is not yellow, […]

Staring at the Sun

By Harold Rhenisch on January 18, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Whoever said you couldn’t look at the sun didn’t live underwater.  January Sun at Noon, Okanagan Landing Whoever it was said that the sun was yellow, doesn’t live on the earth in […]

Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!

By Harold Rhenisch on January 17, 2013 • ( 1 Comment )

It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]

Flying Fish in the Grasslands

By Harold Rhenisch on January 16, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Winter cloud blows east off of the Pacific Ocean. When it strikes the Northwestern North American Coast it crests around the three thousand metre high peaks of the Coast Mountains … Photo: […]

What are Weeds For?

By Harold Rhenisch on January 15, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

This: Russian Thistle is Preferred Above All If native species were replanted, there would be different birds. Simple. Clear.

Glaciation is Our Name

By Harold Rhenisch on January 14, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Did you think the glaciers were gone? Na! All they need is a single weed stalk and they can get a foothold again. On top of their old moraines. This, by the […]

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This is a Blog about People in Place

I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-shop/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.
  • The Pheasants are Messing With You (and the Coyotes, Too)
  • Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
  • 5. A Second Woman and Her Dowry
  • Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
  • 49. Pierre's Hole, Part 1
  • Ten New Commercial Fruit Crops for the Okanagan
  • The Day the Sky Came Down to Earth
  • The Organic Machine
  • Bald Eagles Flirting in the Okanagan
  • Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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