This is the historical colour. This is the colour today. This is the result of overgrazing.
What Colour is the Okanagan?
Environmental Crime in the Grasslands
It is time to set the one ton beasts out to munch. Here is a muncher in her lunch. And here are the kids playing on the rocks. Now, […]
Beautiful Grassland Hunters
Sometimes grass can be your wings.
The Hidden Water of the Grasslands
A grassland slope… Big Bar Esker (An Esker is a river that ran upside down beneath glacial ice.) Flowers in Big Bar Lake. Grassland ground up on the esker… That’s not […]
The Ice Age is Still Here
Ice dropped a stone two miles to its bed. Lichen came. It’s still here. Grass came. It’s still here. Trees have come and gone how many times with fire and wind? Two hundred? Five […]
Stag Day
The does are all off birthing, which leaves the stags to avoid the choke cherry breaks and hang out together in the sun. The other 3 are off the image to the […]
It’s Getting Crowded Out There!
Welcome to the wavy leafed thistle, the bunchgrass thistle.Beloved of insects. Often because it’s the only native flower left. But also because it provides a solid landing pad. Very kind. And it’s […]
Sagebrush Moose
Blending in. Got a problem with that? McLaughlin Canyon Road, Okanogan County, Washington
Spirits in the Mountain
So, imagine, if your people lived in the same place for ten thousand years. That means that something like 500 generations of children and parents would wake to the same mountain, overlooking the […]
Two Clouds in Balance
Both are cheating gravity by using its tension to provide the ladder of form. That’s life!
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