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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Maps

For the indigenous people of North America, maps have always been carried in the heart and mind. In the era of colonial exploration, the first maps unlocked the landscape for others who followed, guiding us where to go, and pinpointing where the rich resources for extraction would be.

In this era of google maps and GIS tracking,  hand-made, hand-drawn maps remind me that landscape is still a place for the soul to roam.

Nerding out about dams

March 13, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

He was smart, deeply interested in the ecological impact of dams, and understood immediately the national importance of the columbia River Treaty.

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

Winter Drought

February 16, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

For a while now, I have been following a remarkable turn of events in the upper Columbia River region. The Columbia River Treaty (CRT) is an international agreement between the US and Canada, for flood control and enhanced hydroelectricity. The CRT was entirely designed to provide spring storage of winter snowmelt, so that summer and […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Maps Tagged With: Columbia River Treaty

Ground breaking US government support of Salmon

September 21, 2023 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration and Dept. of the Interior announced an historic agreement to support the reintroduction of ocean salmon to the upper Columbia River, including $200 million over 20 years, and another $8 million over two. This support of the tribal people and the fish central to their cultural lives comes at a critical […]

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Bears need open space (and maybe some writers do too)

July 19, 2023 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Recently, walking at dusk, residents of a suburban neighborhood near the Ronald Reagan Freeway on the northern edges of the Los Angeles Basin spotted a bear. What? At the edge of highly urbanized Los Angeles county? This is what the landscape looks like on a map. Likely, the bear had been born and raised in […]

Filed Under: Home page, Land, Landscapes, Maps, Uncategorized

The Submerged Canoe

November 4, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 6 Comments

The Sinixt, or Arrow Lakes Tribe, have been in the news lately. After a decade of legal battles over the right to hunt in the Canadian portion of their territory, their case will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada. It’s hard to imagine why, in an era of cultural reconciliation for Indigenous people, […]

Filed Under: Home page, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Columbia River, Kettle River, Sinixt

Nothing that is big or grand starts out that way

May 20, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 12 Comments

In the past month, I have twice threaded my way east through the Selkirk and Purcell mountains to travel across the mysterious landscape of river-beginnings. In the Rocky Mountain Trench, the Kootenay River starts on the West Slope of the Rockies, tumbling down to wind along the broad valley. Here, too, begins the great Columbia […]

Filed Under: Home page, Imagined Maps, Landscapes, Maps, Travel, Upper Columbia River Region Maps, Visual Notebooks, Water

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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