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Welcome to For the Wild Podcast, in the field edition. I'm Ionia.

In the field is a bio-regional, place-based storytelling series inspired by my journeys

to the temperate rainforests of Cascadia.

In this week's episode, we turn north to Sec Weapon Territory around Tahoe, so-called Williams Lake

in South Central, British Columbia, Canada. Nessled within the Caribou Mountains and the

Frazier River watershed, this area is known as one of the birthing waters for salmon.

I know it's so beautiful here. It's like the natural village, right? Yeah, it's not like a monocrop,

tree farm plantation. This is the juniper. Yeah, it's got two kinds, so we thought this prickly one's

low bush juniper. And these are so awesome. You just like grab a whole handful. They're so gentle.

Yeah, they're easy. It's not amazing. This is hanging through.

The other voice you hear in this recording is my dear friend,

Nusqmada Jacinda Mack, of the Sec Weapon and Newhawk Indigenous Peoples of present-day British

Columbia. My mother's line, my matrilineal homeland, is in the Sec Weapon Territory,

Sec Weapon Uluk, and the most, I guess, recognizable place close to there is Williams Lake, so this

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