#northwest native

[justgetclosertome]

Portland Privacy Picture of a small Asian backyard with decking that offers privacy and shade in the summer.

[bigjerkart]

Privacy Landscape in Portland

Inspiration for a small asian privacy and shade backyard landscaping with decking in summer.

[allinonedemo]

Privacy - Landscape Summertime landscaping ideas for a small backyard with concrete pavers and Asian privacy.

[lukemonaghan]

Concrete Pavers Landscape in Portland Design ideas for a large traditional partial sun courtyard concrete paver formal garden.

[starwarsarthistory]

Landscape - Asian Landscape Here is an illustration of a small, decked, Asian backyard with privacy and shade.

[panela-na-janela]

Portland Landscape Inspiration for a summertime small Asian backyard with decking and privacy.

[whycolour]

Landscape Privacy in Portland An example of a small asian privacy and shade backyard landscaping with decking in summer.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalWolfDay 🐺:

Bill Reid (Haida, Pacific NW Coast, 1920-1998)

Haida Wolf - Godj, 1979

Colour silkscreen on paper, 16.5 x 17 in.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It's been exciting seeing the progress in removing old dams like those on the Klamath and other PNW rivers. However, it's not as simple as deciding this particular dam is no longer useful and then removing it. Removal requires time and money, and unfortunately there is sometimes pushback from community members or business entities.

Removal is worth the effort, though. Allowing a river to run naturally restores crucial salmon habitat and cools the water--critical changes in the face of climate change's ever-rising temperatures. And many dam removals directly benefit indigenous people, who have been leading the effort for dam removal in the Pacific Northwest.

This is why it's more important than ever to push decision-makers to opt for dam removal, to include allocating funding and other resources. As this summer's record-breaking temperatures across North America show, salmon and other living beings in and around these rivers need all the help they can get, as soon as possible.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Associated Press (AP):

The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby communities.

In a new report, the Biden administration said those cultural, spiritual and economic detriments continue to pain the tribes, which consider salmon part of their cultural and spiritual identity, as well as a crucial food source.

The government downplayed or accepted the well-known risk to the fish in its drive for industrial development, converting the wealth of the tribes into the wealth of non-Native people, according to the report.

“The government afforded little, if any, consideration to the devastation the dams would bring to Tribal communities, including to their cultures, sacred sites, economies, and homes,” the report said.

It added: “Despite decades of efforts and an enormous amount of funding attempting to mitigate these impacts, salmon stocks remain threatened or endangered and continued operation of the dams perpetuates the myriad adverse effects.”

The Interior Department’s report comes amid a $1 billion effort announced earlier this year to restore the region’s salmon runs before more become extinct — and to better partner with the tribes on the actions necessary to make that happen.

That includes increasing the production and storage of renewable energy to replace hydropower generation that would be lost if four dams on the lower Snake River are ever breached. Tribes, conservationists and even federal scientists say that would be the best hope for recovering the salmon, providing the fish with access to hundreds of miles of pristine habitat and spawning grounds in Idaho.

[coolestguyonearth]

Another serious post!

Thank you all SO much for your support regarding my initial post about the Chinook nation. I'm hoping you'll lend me your attention one more time in preparation for this year's election.

Political candidates have time and time again promised aid to our nation only to utterly fail us when elected. I'm asking you all to get really mad about that on social media. It sounds silly, I know, but anger is a valuable weapon, especially during election season. Outrage fuels action. Today, our chairman sent out an email and provided us with these instructions:

1. Share the message and graphic below on social media to show your federal representative candidates that you are a #ChinookJustice voter, and justice cannot wait.

Copy the text below, paste it into a new social post, and update the bracketed text:

This November, I'm voting to support leaders who prioritize restoring federal recognition of the Chinook Indian Nation. [Tag your federal candidates] — if elected, what will you do to ensure  #ChinookJustice is restored?

^ these graphics are made to fit facebook, instagram, and twitter formats

2. Once you've taken action online, you can order shirts, stickers, lawn signs and more to show your community that you are a #ChinookJustice voter. All proceeds support community needs.

This is our redbubble store, and this is our printify! There are cute totes, pins, stickers, and even license plate frames.

I'm once again linking our Instagram, where you can see a variety of posts from birthdays to tribal events. And you can donate to us here and here.

also, a disclaimer - I am NOT an official of the Chinook Nation. I am not affiliated with council, nor am I a general representative. I'm just a guy fighting to protect his family. Thank you for choosing to support us <3

[pamietniko]

Cascadia ♥

Washington

[formlines]

Sockeye Salmon

Paul Windsor

[mylifeinpixels]

Obsessed with flower pictures. Will never stop being amazed by flowers or by how photogenic they all are

[shadesofmauve]

Becoming one with the bog

It was technically a 'poor fen', not a bog in the strictest sense, because it's ground-and-surface water fed, not reliant entirely on rain. It's still on the acid side of neutral and dominated by sphagnum moss. The acid and lack of oxygen in the water mean the plant matter doesn't fully decay, which forms the 'peat' of the peat bog, and the sphagnums help make sure it all stays that way.

The peat fen is a sensitive ecosystem, and it's totally possible to sink one of the 'dry' feeling hummocks (they're NOT dry, they're lying; sphagnum can hold a huge amount of water), so you don't walk from hummock to hummock; you avoid them and wade through the water and mud.

It makes very satisfying SSHCHLORP and GLOOOP sounds, stealthily tries to eat your feet if you stand still too long, and it bounces. The ground was actually something like 20 feet below us; we were walking on the peat. I think they said that 90% of the water was in that peat, with 5% below and 5% above. Not sure I've got the numbers right, but picture a giant neutrally buoyant sponge. With a landscape on top of it. It is sproingy.

Bounce, and the shrubs and stunted trees bounce with you, or whatever that saying is.

We saw three species of carnivorous plants. I didn't get a picture of the bladderwort, but the left is a Washington native sundew, and the right is sticky false asphodel, which was only discovered to be carnivorous in 2021.

I also took lots of pictures of pond lilies, which aren't specific to this environment but are really cool looking:

They also make it warmer inside their flowers. That's part of why all the lil' bugs are there! Pond lilies be making it cozy. Swamp lantern (skunk cabbage) also generate heat — and they create their own little 'wells'; clear space in the sphagnum hummocks. None of my pictures captured it well, but it's quite weird. Like little variations on the massive "plant shaping it's environment" theme that the sphagnum moss started.

And that, it turns out, is the true lure and danger of the fen. Not just that it could schloop you under (I only fell on my ass once, and it was sproingy). Not will-o-the-wisps. No, the true mystery is the sphagnum hillocks themselves.

Mounds of moss rising a foot or more above the water, red, brown, chartreuse, and yellow. They look like little hills, but it's moss, moss, moss, all the way down. You can wiggle your hand right down inside it. It's incredibly soft, and it's warm.

I can just imagine someone, weary from their bog slog, starting to miss their footing in the gloop, falling prey to the siren song of the Forbidden Coziness. They lay down (crushing numerous delicate plants as they do). They wriggle in. They fall asleep.

Several thousand years later, a lucky archeologist finds another bog body.

[kaccvcate]

Picked this up at an antique store today, it's an original pastel drawing. The signature reads McLaughlin. I love how stylish this guy is, especially his staff and wizard robe. I think it's probably from the 70's or 80's. I can tell he's from the northwest, but otherwise don't know enough to recognize the style. If anyone can tell me anything about more it, I'd be grateful!

Edit: I found out the artist is Blackfoot, and actually pretty well known, she died in 1987. So now I'd say maybe 60's or 70's...this dude doesn't look Blackfoot to me, so he's still a mystery.