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The Gentle Colours of the Grasslands

By Harold Rhenisch on July 1, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

If you see something darker, chances are it doesn’t belong. Even that alfalfa in the back is being a little garish, isn’t it!

The Okanagan in History: Table of Contents

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I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-sh op/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.

Earth and Moon
The Power of Names and Stories
Environmental Problems are Political Problems
Murdering Geese for Tourists. It's What We Do.
Neon Green Bee
The Pacific Northwest is Not the Southwest
Moonrise at Sunrise Over Okanagan Lake
49. Pierre's Hole 1: What is Pierre's Hole?
A Year of Walking and Learning
Sumac and Red Dogwood

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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