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The great thing about watersheds is that they are the visible and sensual containers of our collective being. That visible and sensual part is very important. It’s really very hard to find ourselves in the trophic levels and energy exchanges that have come to define the ecological sciences. Watersheds are something we experience. We walk in them. We feel their winds and smell their […]
Meeting I “Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Work Group” Date:November 17, 1995 (Friday) Location:San Joaquin County. Terminous, CA. Schedule: Opening & Introductions: Nat Bingham. Welcome: Yvonne Mabee. Description of Tower Marina facilities and history of site as rail terminus for Delta agriculture Announcements: Nat Bingham, Leon Davies. Conference Reports Water Policy V Conference in Sacramento: Nat Bingham. Watershed Reports:This year special emphasis is to be on stories […]
“Bridge to the Future” September 14-17, 1995 (Thursday thru Sunday) Location: Sonoma County. Redwood Camp (also known as Berkeley Music Camp), on Austin Creek (the last tributary of the Russian River before its confluence with the ocean). The camp is set in old growth and secondary growth redwoods. Located 5 miles north of Highway 116 on Cazadero Highway, near Cazadero. Town Square: Public meeting place […]
“Planning A Sustainable Future” September 15-18, 1994 (Thursday thru Sunday) Location: Mendocino County. Redwood Coast. Mendocino Woodlands Camp, on the Little North Fork of Big River, off Mendocino -Little Lake Road (County Road 408). Conference: The focus is on the unique ecosystem of the coastal forests, watershed and fisheries, where the land and the ocean interact. Discussions will cover: bioregional issues, explore our cultural heritage, […]
“Building a Bioregional Culture”(“A celebration of unity in diversity!”) September 10-13, 1992 (Thursday thru Sunday) Location: Siskiyou County. Near Mount Shasta. Methodist Church Camp (about a mile from Castle Lake, amidst old growth forest, native wildflower meadows, bubbling streams and spectacular views of Mount Shasta). Goal:Bringing bioregional culture to new levels of application, deepening understanding and commitment, better filling the system’s leadership vacuums, and building […]
“Northern California Big Time”* September 12-15, 1991 (Thursday thru Sunday ) *The First Bioregional Gathering respectfully borrowed the term ‘Big Time’ in honor of Californian’s First Peoples. The term ‘Big Time’ was and is used by California Native-Americans for large gatherings that evoke the past and explore the present and future. This is accomplished by talking, listening, learning, demonstrating, telling stories, entertaining, and by celebrating […]
Reviewed by Pierce Butler in Voice of the Turtle, 5/ 24/ 84 at the First North American Bioregional Congress The Siskiyou Mountains came to the heartland prairies Wednesday night – they glowed, they swam, they leaped and sang and told long stories without a beginning or an end. With a little help from a white cape and a series of intimate slides, Judy Goldhaft started […]
___________________ More about the symposium: ___________________ The Bioregional Basis of Community Consciousness A Public Symposium April 7-10, 1979 San Francisco Are we /\out of place in Northern California? Our Society is Heading in Two Conflicting Directions. One of these is the attempt to preserve regional culture, community identity, natural resources and political autonomy. The second retains the impetus of the Industrial Revolution and involves an […]
This is an improvisation guide for performing stories that come specifically from native northern California Pomo. Maidu, Karok and Pit River tribal traditions. The “coyote stories” feature human/animal characters and were told around fires during the rainy winter months for both entertainment and philosophical reference to human and planet events. * * * The stories embody multi-species consciousness; human beings as such don’t have to […]
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