It’s a free country. Your choices are limited only by your imagination. Trout Fishing at Gardom Lake What will you chose to protect yourself from radiation? A towel? A cotton hat? An […]
Varied Canadian Responses to Global Warming
Grassland Tours for the Okanagan?
Grass evolved to thrive in hot fire landscapes. Given that human activity has increased heat and fire … … across the planet … … shouldn’t we stop mowing grass and … … […]
McLaughlin’s Canyon Illustrates the Racist Basics Behind Claims of Climate Change
Climate change, eh. Here at McLaughlin’s Canyon on the Old Trail to the North, the water that undercut the canyon wall is long gone, as is the fire that took the firs […]
Holding on to Our Water for Dear Life
It’s fun to go out and read the weather by looking down, too. It gives a longer term view. For instance, the really poor shape of the early season cheat grass below […]
Weed Planet
When “nature” is a collection of weeds, one might think that colonialism was complete and that we are living in the end times. Weeds, smoke mixed into the winter fog, the morning […]
More Climate Change Lessons from the Okanagan
Problem: Petroleum Mucking up the Air? Solution: De-muck it. How: Plant a tree. The image below shows City of Vernon land used as a road to access a water pumping station. The […]
First Steps to Mitigate Global Warming in the Okanagan Okanogan Today
PROBLEM: Climate change accelerates atmospheric heating. Red-Tailed Hawks in Tkem’lips STRATEGY: Don’t panic! The heating is caused by the mountains and by air pressure. Thompson Grasslands SOLUTION: Plant a tree. A good […]
Junked Cars and Apricot Trees and the “News”
Apricot trees and land barges, these relics from my youth, go so well together, don’t you think. It was the age when you had a choice: to drive or to set down […]
Blackbird’s Spring: January 21, 2016
So, you’ve beaten the rush and have come back to your ancestral marsh to find human habitations and gravel fill — and snow!!! — right in the middle of it, gawwwwd. What’s […]
Okanagan Rhododendrons and Climate Change
In the Okanagan Valley, rhododendrons, so glorious in the rain forests on the Pacific Coast, and so frost tender, grow at elevations between 3,000 and 5,000 feet, in moose swamps of black spruce, alder, […]
