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Wild Life on the Hanford Reach
Here is a basic guide to life in the Hanford Reach, the last free-flowing (note: not wild, just free flowing) stretch of the American stretch of the Columbia River. First, the security camera...
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A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the sun, air, and...
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Meditation on Light
The human mind reads patterns. Perhaps it does so because it is formed from an earth rich with patterns. Perhaps the moment of apprehension of pattern is called meaning. Perhaps that comes after the...
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Blood of the Earth
I live in the country of the Columbia River, above the lake that spills into one of its tributaries, the Okanogan River. In this country, there are many rivers like the Okanagan, such as the San Poil,...
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By These Fish We Take Our Measure
From the shore where fresh water mingles with salt …. …and the tide comes in and out and humans erect the stories of themselves they have always lifted into the sky… … and the stories of their shadows...
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Why Wine Goes So Well With Salmon
Nets! Noble Ridge Vineyard, Okanagan Falls, British Columbia
View ArticleWhere the Mountains Become Water
In my country, the rivers are born in the mountains. Here is born the Missouri, the Columbia, the Fraser and all their ancestors and all their daughters. This particular mother is the Cascades: a […]
View ArticleSalmon On the Way to Sea
While making arrangements for my father’s funeral a week ago, I walked down at dawn to the mouth of Simm’s Creek, on Eastern Vancouver Island. No, this is not rain. Four years […]
View ArticleThe Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
View ArticleSalmon Coming Home to the Rain
Chinook Salmon, Stamp River, Cascadia 17.9.17 A half hour after the skies broke at last with rain.
View ArticleOur Ancestors Are Not All Human. Neither Are We.
The salmon come home, but they do not come home alone. Sure, they have each other … … but that’s not what I mean. They come home to the ancestors. Have a […]
View ArticleAmerican Dipper Among the Salmon
This is the bird that weaves the worlds of water, air and stone. It walks into the water and out of it again. To Dipper, these worlds are one. Deep under the […]
View ArticleTruth and Reconciliation in the Thompson and Okanagan Valleys, One Camp Stool...
What simpler way to celebrate the most enduring of Canadian values: coming face-to-face with the Earth, the Universe and Everything, alone, and for the first time, and the first time again tomorrow, […]
View ArticleBeauty, Renewal and the Salmon of Shuttleworth Creek in the Fight Against...
Shuttleworth Creek winds for many miles up through the antelope brush and bunchgrass, into the pine forest, and deep into the mountains, covered in firs. With a bed of complex gravels and […]
View ArticleCottonwoods Are the Salmon of the Air
Cottonwood trees lay down the nutrient conditions for salmon by creating sandbars, back eddies, and nutrient rich water. More vitally, their leaves are salmon. They grow along a spine and then at […]
View ArticleA Coyote at The Little Falls
SX̌ʷƏX̌ʷNITKʷ, the second major salmon falls of the Syilx Illahie (and the only one remaining free of Grand Coulee Dam), is not alone in this light. Look at Coyote’s big knobby head […]
View Article52. Pierre’s Hole 4: Some Problems With Using Business to Conduct Diplomacy
Business has always been a primary foundation of the development of the West of North America, with diplomacy being subordinated to it. The development of Cascadia is no exception. It was an […]
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