"Beavers Do It Better"

Video from King County WA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Takd6ziPzws 

A First Nations Tribe Uses Beaver Relocation to Enhance Prospects of Salmon Restoration 

nr.tulaliptribes.com/Programs/Wildlife/Beaver 

Further reading from Ben Goldfarb for Business Insider

www.businessinsider.com/strategically-placing-beavers-around-to-help-salmon-2019-3 

A Place-Based Collaborative Conservation Effort

Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail and Natural Area Preserve

Located outside Olympia WA, the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail offers a premier interpretative experience when every November some 25,000 wild chum salmon return to its fresh water reaches to spawn. Established in 1999 by Taylor Shellfish and the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group, the Salmon Trail and its immediate watershed are now part of the Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve which includes the creek's estuary on Oyster Bay. Under the direction of the Washington Department of Natural Resources, the NAP combines with a contiguous Natural Resources Conservation Area to provide some 1100 acres of quality habitat - salt marsh, tidal flat, riparian and upland forest - for a rich array of avian, terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.

For more on the Salmon Trail, visit: spsseg.org/kennedy-creek-salmon-trail/ 

For more on the Kennedy Creek NAP, visit: www.dnr.wa.gov/KennedyCreek 

Below, a short get-acquainted video on the Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail by Chris Cooley

Freeman House: "Exploring the Meaning of Watershed Health" 

From Michael Furniss: Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RqNkboQyc0

Remembering Freeman House: Community-Based Restorationist

https://www.mattole.org/news/remembering-freeman-house/

Fire Belongs Here

For centuries, indigenous First Nations partnered with fire to support their cultures and enhance the biodiversity of their life-providing forests. With the growing threat of climate disruption and the extended wildfire seasons that arise from hotter, drier summers, local tribes are challenging the fire suppression policies as practiced by the settler society and reasserting the traditional role that fire plays in the management of a healthy homeland. 

Karuk Reach Historic Agreement on Cultural Fire, from the Los Angeles Times, visit: california-tribe-enters-first-of-its-kind-agreement-with-the-state-to-practice-cultural-burns 

Below: "Fire Belongs Here" from Klamath Media. 

Empty Bowl Press

Founded in 1976, Empty Bowl is an independent, cooperative letterpress that publishes Pacific Northwest poetry, essays, translations and literary anthologies. Holly J. Hughes and John Pierce continue the tradition from Empty Bowl's new home in Chimacum on the Olympic Peninsula.

To visit the Empty Bowl website, click: www.emptybowl.org/ 

Cascadia Poetics Lab

For over a quarter-century, Paul Nelson has explored and enriched bioregional awareness and community participation through a range of tools and media, such as poetry, captivating interviews, and teaching workshops like the Spoken Word Lab, or SPLAB, which he co-founded with Danika Dinsmore in Auburn WA in 1996.

 To learn more, visit his extensive website at: http://paulenelson.com/

For Bioregionally Worthy Reads, Evocative and Provocative, click: sites.google.com/site/ocascadia/ecosophically-speaking/evocative-provocative-reading

 "Occupied Cascadia"   

"Salmon Confidential" 

"Fractured Land"

   "Idle No More: Seattle WA"

"Pickaxe"

"Disaster Bellingham"

Scroll down for summaries and links:

"O Cascadia"

 Like the song below, this site  is inspired by the possibilities of a green,  sustainable, earth-friendly homeland that honors the essence of "place"  and all its human and nonhuman peoples.  As a lived or imagined bioregion, may Cascadia always inspire and enlighten.

For the You-View Longhouse Library general directory, click:

https://sites.google.com/site/ocascadia/library-links

Directed by Twyla Roscovich

Dr. Alexandra Morton's two decade-long effort to expose the dangers that fish farms pose to British Columbia's wild salmon gained greater leverage when in 2012 a report by the Cohen Commission corroborated many of her concerns and recommended policy changes to provincial and federal authorities. Filmmaker Twyla Roscovich, employing a lucid storytelling style, now offers a valuable summary and update of Wild Salmon Warriors and the scientists who spearhead their cause.  Any citizen, Cascadian or otherwise, who thinks that they can entrust modern government alone with insuring public health, planning sustainable economies, or protecting the integrity of the natural environment,  must spend an hour watching this informative, troubling, yet hopeful documentary.

 Available in its entirety by clicking below.

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/salmon-confidential/

Directed by Fiona Rayher and Damien Gillis

Caleb Behn is a member of the Dene people of northeastern British Columbia, where zealous industrial development is poisoning the homeland waters and threatening the good health of its inhabitants. By following Caleb on his journey as law student and indigenous environmental activist, the documentary, produced by Daniel Conrad, aims to raise awareness to the destructive policies of Big Oil & Gas that threaten the ecological sanity of communities and cultures in Cascadia and worldwide.

From Brodie Lane Stevens at North West Coastal

Enough Is Enough! The colonial mindset is now knocking on - and knocking down - the front doors of all planet Earth's inhabitants.

On December 11, 2012, Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat band in northern Ontario  began a hunger strike to protest her opposition to Canadian omnibus law C-45, the latest assault by Stephen Harper's Conservative government on the treaty rights and sovereignty of First Nations peoples.  Over the ensuing weeks, Chief Spence became the focal point of an "Idle No More" movement that has quickly  gained supporters across the North American continent and around the world, uniting a range of indigenous and non-indigenous activists in the common cause of human rights and ecological good health.  Below, a short video documenting solidarity rallies and flash mobs in Seattle. 

 Posted by Rock Paper Jet on You Tube.

For updates and information on "Idle No More", visit its website at: http://idlenomore.ca/

"Pickaxe"

The full-length documentary retells the story of a determined Cascadia Free State campaign that in 1991 organized to protect old-growth Oregon forests on land managed by the US Forest Service. An inspiring tribute to Cascadian defiance and resistance. And a call to citizen action.

 Produced and edited by Tim Lewis and Tim Ream 

AVAILABLE ONLINE at Internet Archives 25: archive.org/details/pickAxe_201810 

 Long before the dangers of fossil fuel pipelines began to frequent the news media, an explosion and subsequent rampaging fireball shattered the serenity of Bellingham, Washington,  scorching a popular park and wildlife reserve while taking the lives of three young citizens. 

Produced by the City of Bellingham to commemorate that tragic event and the city's determined response.

  Diverse as your people... with a mind for the future... 

    O Cascadia...  

      Work of the ages... garden of our dreams...