A blog to help you explore Shuswap geography by Jim Cooperman, author of Everything Shuswap, including his newspaper columns with more images and information that did not appear in print, as well as other commentaries and memoirs.
This year’s massive Shuswap firestorm has resulted in thousands of hectares of forests gone, a world-famous park damaged beyond recognition, over three hundred homes, businesses, […]
The Shuswap’s worst disaster was avoidable Read More »
At 8:30 pm, just three hours after the 10 km long “controlled” burn was lit by an aerial ignition on August 17th, a crew from
On October 4, 2023 I invited wildfire expert Bruce Morrow, who has 35 years of prescribed fire and wildfire suppression and management experience, to tour
Wildfire expert says backburn was uncontrolled and had little chance of success Read More »
[This article appears in the Sept. 23, 2023 Victoria Times-Colonist] Most North Shuswap residents struggle to comprehend how the BC Wildfire Service can claim their
The Backburn that backfired and devastated the North Shuswap Read More »
[A version of this article appears in the Sept. 23, 2023 Globe and Mail ] We attended our first environmental conference in 1989, at which
2023 brings a cruel irony to a back-to-the-lander Shuswap environmentalist Read More »
Fun, insightful, inspiring and intriguing videos of music, backcountry ski-touring, environmental events, hiking, and biking.
Roots & Blues Retro – a retrospective tour of festivals since 2011
.A brief tour of the 2018 Adams River sockeye salmon run. The soundtrack is a song by Anie Hepher.
Most of the images from the book, Everything Shuswap with an original soundtrack by Sylvain Valle
