Now Seeking Submissons

Coming soon: a contest of sorts to allow residents of the region to submit descriptions and stories about their places.
All submissions will be reviewed and some will be included in the forthcoming guidebook to the region. All will be added to the forthcoming website as part of a continuing project to create viable and evolving descriptions of place within the Cascadian region.
Some of the criteria and areas of interest being sought in submissions for the guidebook include:

* attempts (successes and failures) at "reinhabitation":

- How have you or your community attempted to localize and become "sustainable"
- Tell a story of eco-restoration, land stewardship, or community building

* description of a place or telling of a story:

- stories can be factual accounts of actual events or mythological stories that have origins in stories passed down through ones cultural heritage
- place descriptions relate to scale descriptions found below

* focused on one or more aspects of bioregionalism: local ...

- geology
- geography
- hydrology
- climate / weather patterns
- flora
- fauna
- human history (with a focus on activities that either degraded or enhanced local ecology)

* applies to one scale of the various degrees of scale within the Cascadian bioregion (see the website for select scale and place descriptions):

- local human community / watershed
- urban population center (city)
- small stream drainage area (or other relevant natural defining feature of place, e.g. forest, valley, mountain, grassland, lake, etc)
- watershed (mid-size, such as the average size of a county)
- ecoregion