Check out what Sen’klip nabbed and dropped along his trail. Lovely! Check out what farming looks like in the Okanagan today. Here’s a farmer at work on his farm road in Bella […]
The Difference Between Coyotes and Humans
How to Spot a Coyote
Amazingly, I spotted him first (long after he spotted me.) It was the shape that caught my eye, not his colour. What is amazing about that is that I spotted the female, […]
Towards a New Cartography, Part 2: Canada is not the Land…yet
The land has stories. To say “Hawk hunting chickadees on the edge of The Vineyard at the Rise in Vernon” is not the land’s story. That is the story of a mapped […]
Coyote’s Lesson
When spooked, run into the open, scan the distance … … and then, rather than following the open grass, step behind a sagebrush and disappear. After that, you dominate the side of […]
Northern Pocket Gopher Makes the World
At the time of year when the first flowers sport stinkbugs … … and the aspens put out their first leaves, untouched yet by leaf-ming worms… … and cedar bugs frisk about […]
Easter With Kojoti
T’kemlips Blessings to you and all your relations in this time of people rising from the earth.
The Pheasants are Messing With You (and the Coyotes, Too)
Check out this ring-necked pheasant sneaking away from me through the sagebrush and wild roses. What a guy. But what an environment! We know pheasants mostly by their habit of bolting at […]
Not Just a Coyote Trail Under the Vineyard Fence!
Everyone likes grapes, or those who like them. That’s a ring-necked pheasant going uphill, and a … bobcat? going the other way. If you look carefully, you can see some smaller bird […]
What Changes are Happening in the Earth?
That’s what a Secwepemc man asked me on an evening like this, with this view in front of us. What is the earth doing? He didn’t mean, what are people doing to […]
Battling SCS, the Petroleum-Induced Cancer, in the Okanagan
You know that corn on the cob that tastes so good? No, this is not corn. This a farm here in Vernon that grew sweet corn for a few years and now grows […]
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