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 is Water and Water is Land
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 […]
Roads to Nowhere
Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
We Can Do Better
The other day, I showed how little economy was actually generated by the Okanagan’s forests. 95% or so, in fact. Check it out, if you missed it. https://okanaganokanogan.com/2025/11/06/there-has-got-to-be-a-better-way/ This post continues the […]
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 […]
A Meditation at Buffalo Eddy
A petroglyph site on the Snake River south of Asotin, called “Buffalo Eddy” because of the dominant figure below, speaks to the river day and night. The figure appears nowhere else and […]
Rural or Urban or …?
The other day, here, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2024/10/17/what-does-rural-british-columbia-need/, I rephrased the question “What does rural British Columbia need?” as an entirely different one: “What do the land and water need?” Beaver Bay, Big Bar Lake. […]
A Hungry Day
A bad day for flying, too. Ponderosa Pines on Turtle Ridge So, maybe you can still catch a bite, right? In the fall rye? You know, the vegetable field, past and future […]
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 […]
Kicking the Colour Drug
The Earth is a spiritual place. I mean, it’s an energy. This energy draws matter to it. It takes shape. The Earth is a shape of this kind. All things on Earth […]
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