When you enter a story, the story is changed by your entrance. Here in the Thompson, we pass a juniper and a boulder, cross paths with a young pine, and approach the […]
The Timeless World of the Ancient Thompson Valley
Indigenous Land Use and the Agricultural Land Reserve
It’s actually the law of the land: indigenous rights precede all others. No matter that the rule has scarcely been applied since 1858, it’s still the law of the land, and it […]
The Draw of the Salish Sea
Inland from the Pacific, on the west coast of Cascadia, the Salish Sea fills the glacially-carved mountain valley system between Vancouver Island and the older island chains lifted into the sky in […]
Surfing the Island Archipelagoes of the Okanagan
In water, an island is an eye of land giving sight to water. On land, an island is a pool of water giving life to air. Grasslands are oceanic environments. Deer surf.
No More Wild Fires Please
It is a catastrophic summer in the Interior of British Columbia. Close to 15,000 people have been evacuated from their communities. Indigenous communities who refuse to leave are isolated. Read about the […]
Evacuated from Fire Country
Central British Columbia is going up in flames. Towns in which I used to live, with my friends, have been evacuated in the face of fire. We got off the plateau just […]
Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
Last night, I wrote about the benefits of environmental transformation that could come through the simple mechanism of attaching a wetland to every school in the Okanagan. It’s worth elaborating on, because […]
The Best Thing We Can Do for the Okanagan and Ourselves, Ever
I’m working on a series of 100 practical things we can do in the Okanagan to create a sustainable culture. They are archived in the menu bar above. Let me give you […]
Vancouver’s 2016 Colonization of the British Columbia Interior, Illustrated
Note: Since this article was written, Canadian Art has corrected its geography, and now describes its outpost, correctly, as in the Interior. That is welcome. The critique of elite privilege is still […]
Reading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a […]
Okanagan Okanogan 