The Beaver

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

from Ben Goldfarb for Business Insider

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

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. 

Below: "Fire Belongs Here" from Klamath Media. Or visit, Fire Works!, at the Karuk Tribe Climate Change Projects website: karuktribeclimatechangeprojects.com/fire-works/ 

 "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 non-human 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...