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Glaciation is Our Name
Did you think the glaciers were gone? Na! All they need is a single weed stalk and they can get a foothold again. On top of their old moraines. This, by the way, is not soil.
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Flying Fish in the Grasslands
Winter cloud blows east off of the Pacific Ocean. When it strikes the Northwestern North American Coast it crests around the three thousand metre high peaks of the Coast Mountains … Photo: Anassa...
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Harold Discovers His Brain
Sticking out of a hill, where a glacier left it 12,000 years ago. I wondered where it had got to. ;-)
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Lichen and Bunchgrass in Harmony
It starts with a drop, of water you might say, but I think it’s a drop of life. Look how both bunchgrass and lichen on this glacial erratic repeat the patterns of the stars. (For the best view, click...
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I Love Water
Big Bar Lake, with Damselfly The green colour comes from the bright lake bottom, which is the remains of the bed of an underground glacial river, made of tiny, flat, oval pebbles ground off the...
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Fencing the Okanagan Valley
Way up here … 200 metres above the lake in the valley below … … high up in the sky … … there was once a river, that left pebbles half a metre in diameter, like this. Some people live in this riverbed...
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The Bones of Our Mother
This is our mother. These are the bones of our mother, with the glacial outwash gravel that cut them from her body above. These are some of our mother’s bones weathering in the sun and the cold....
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Spirit Mountains and Ice Rivers of the Similkameen
The Similkameen River makes a big bend to the east at the foot of Chopaka and Hurley Peak (the left and right peaks below) A few ridges and fifty miles to the south, the spectacularly mis-named...
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Ancient Waves Live On
These drainage waves were formed 10,000 years ago when a lake as large as a sea filling the valley below my house drained in half a day. They are still catching sun and water, in the forms of heat and...
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The Mysterious Similkameen
Here where the glaciers ground each other to a halt and ate down into the earth instead, the Apex volcanic complex meets the North Cascades. After so many millions of years, they’re still talking it out.
View ArticleThe Salt-Loving Bees of the Okanagan’s Glacial Rivers
When glaciers lay in the valley, rivers ran along the side of the ice, high up, 170 metres above today’s shore. They tell a tale still of eddies, currents, and washed-out and […]
View ArticleThe Draw of the Salish Sea
Inland from the Pacific, on the west coast of Cascadia, the Salish Sea fills the glacially-carved mountain valley system between Vancouver Island and the older island chains lifted into the sky in […]
View ArticleOn the Shore of the Marble River
The river flowed through the ice 12,000 years ago, and left these sinuous eskers as a bed. And the trees still flow through the ice boundary in a late spring morning. Glorious!
View ArticleTaking a Second Look: It is Not Erosion
This is how we change the world. We change the world. Mullein Changing the World on Some Crushed Gravel Leftover from Road-Building This is going on across the slope of a gravel […]
View ArticleThe Land Makes the People that Makes the Land
For 9000 years, this skull has guided people on the esker trail between the mountains and the lakes Big Bar Lake Esker These people were not, and are not, British Columbians. They […]
View Article19. All This Land Was Water Once
There is no need to think in straight lines. Lines like that say “this stuff is land”… … and “this other stuff is water.” That is simply a false division. There’s an […]
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