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"Summer of 84" de François Simard, Anouk Whissell et Yoann-Karl Whissell (2018) avec les jeunes Graham Verchere, Caleb Emery, Judah Lewis, Cory Gruter-Andrew et Tiera Skovbye, et Rich Sommer, Jason Gray-Stanford et Shauna Johannesen, mai 2024.

Emily Lussin wrote about the Chucks, as they are known locally, in an article on the Kayak for Youth Program in the book, Flowing Through Time, Stores of Kingfisher and Mabel Lake: “The Shuswap River flows calmly out of Mabel Lake picking up speed as it starts charging down this stretch of whitewater. Every feature has been named. It starts with a wave called Teeter Totter, where at high water a long time ago a log got held up on a rock and later that summer at lower flow was able to be teeter tottered back and forth. Then there is a huge hole called Greyhound that could latterly swallow a Greyhound bus. Next up is the “wave train” of the Chucks with a few holes at different levels and the Ledge on the river right heading out of Big Pool. One and on it goes, flowing over the rocks, forming more memorable features we know as Hawaii-Five-O, Quickie, the Whirlies, the Jet Ferry, the S-bends, and the Rodeo Hole!”

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“Although plants are obviously alive, they are rooted to the earth and mute, and they rarely move on a relatable time scale; they seem more like passive aspects of the environment than agents within it. Western culture, in particular, often consigns plants to a liminal space between object and organism. It is precisely this ambiguity that makes the possibility of plant intelligence and society so intriguing — and so contentious.”

Henry Simard; Wilfred Simard, and a third unknown man breaking up a log jam in the Skookumchuck Rapids on part of a log drive down the Shuswap River.