For 10,000 years, the people of the grasslands have been living in a fire landscape. For 100 years, they have been living in a fire debt. This landscape: Selah Creek, Yakama Nation […]
The Fire Deficit and the Depth of Global Warming
The End of the Earth or Reconciliation? The Choice is Ours.
This is a post about the gently rolling hills of the shallows of an ancient lake, that are no more. It is a place where herons survived cold winters by hunting mice. […]
The Earth is Our Teacher, But What Does She Teach?
In school we were taught that a teacher was someone who showed us how things are in the world. Really, it was someone who gave us letters and a means of turning […]
Appetite, the Commons and Private Land
Henry David Thoreau argued that industrial agriculture and slavery were expressions of the same impulse, which led towards the replacement of common experience and trade with private […]
What is Wild?
Is this smoke bush wild? No. It was planted to give some red colour to a lot of green shrubs. Is the fact that it is growing a “wild” characteristic? Perhaps, but wouldn’t […]
Oh To Be a Heron in the Springtime
The Okanagan hosts the world’s only urban heron rookery. Things are full of action there at the moment. The Rookery, Vernon The rookery, however, is on private land, surrounded by tire dealerships, […]
A Science of Colour and the Art of Science
I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]
