Here are three women walking down a corridor between two deer fences. Plus a coyote, as I showed you a few weeks back. Today, a bigger view. The upper fence ostensibly protects […]
A Crowded World
The Sun Rises on a New Farming Year
At first, there was capital investment to create a fruit growing industry in British Columbia that could supply England and such colonies as Hong Kong and Australia with a homesick-for-England product: apples […]
Land is Water and Water is Land
Land and water are land-and-water: one substance. Salish Sea, the Islands and the Coast Mountains Talk about this weave doesn’t have to start with words. Below is a conversation that places human […]
Land and Water are One (Again)
Northern Cascadia has vast amounts of land and water, yet both are too expensive for the people who live there. That’s one way of putting things. Another is that land and water […]
Succession Planning & Racism in British Columbia’s Forests
In my previous post, I showed you a forest zoned for commercial use. It is in trouble. Here’s one zoned for protection. It is in trouble, too. You will begin to understand […]
How to Get to Cascadia
Having trouble finding Cascadia, now that the US-Canadian Border is becoming fraught? Well… That’s right. You can get there. But maybe not the direct way. By plugging in? Well, you might get […]
A Private and Public Election
In much of Cascadia, public space is very limited. Here is a narrow strip of it, winding through the Palouse, in one of our regions administered by the USA. Washington State Highway […]
Earth and Sky
On the northern flank of Kobau Mountain, they flow into each other. Yesterday it was best to speak of them as one. Still are.
Nature is Dying, But We Can Fix That
Yes we can. Here is a picture of 200 years of history. This is not a picture of nature. That’s the strangest thing. The lake is managed, not for its own needs […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
Okanagan Okanogan 