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KBOO
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Air date:
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 12:00am
New map unveiled at Portland celebration
May 18th is the anniversary of the Mt. St. Helens eruption, chosen by former Seattle University professor David McCloskey as a day to represent Cascadia because of it's visceral reminder ofthe dynamism of our region. We live under massive forces that shape our world, in a region defined through it's geography, geology and topography - and we are all a part of these processes.
McCloskey also designed the map of the Cascadia bioregion, now widely known in the region, around 30 years ago. On Sunday, May 17, he was in Portland to celebrate Cascadia Day in Laurelhurst Park and to share his vivid and richly textured new map of Cascadia, the result of several years and countless hours of work, as he recounts in this recording at the event by Paul Roland.
The map is a breakthrough in cartography by someone not professionally trained. It weaves together geological, terrain, vegetative, and other features and brings together ecoregions on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. As McLoskey recounts in this audio, the map is appearing on the cover of the annual map book of ESRI, the GIS Mapping Software company utilized by virtually all contemporary cartographers, a distinct and unique honor.
The new map will be available through McLoskey's Cascadia Institute: http://cascadia-institute.org/.
The event at Laurelhurst was organized by Cascadia Now http://www.cascadianow.org/.
McCloskey also designed the map of the Cascadia bioregion, now widely known in the region, around 30 years ago. On Sunday, May 17, he was in Portland to celebrate Cascadia Day in Laurelhurst Park and to share his vivid and richly textured new map of Cascadia, the result of several years and countless hours of work, as he recounts in this recording at the event by Paul Roland.
The map is a breakthrough in cartography by someone not professionally trained. It weaves together geological, terrain, vegetative, and other features and brings together ecoregions on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. As McLoskey recounts in this audio, the map is appearing on the cover of the annual map book of ESRI, the GIS Mapping Software company utilized by virtually all contemporary cartographers, a distinct and unique honor.
The new map will be available through McLoskey's Cascadia Institute: http://cascadia-institute.org/.
The event at Laurelhurst was organized by Cascadia Now http://www.cascadianow.org/.
From their website: Cascadia Now provides resources and direct services to groups, projects, and community partners to raise awareness of Cascadia, celebrate our distinct regional identity and culture, and increase the autonomy of the Cascadia bioregion - socially, politically, economically and environmentally. We empower all forms of Cascadia organizing.
We want to see a bioregion that is self sufficient, responsible for our actions, impacts and the consequences of our modern lifestyles, in which people are supported and connected into their community and landbase, and every person, without exception, is able to participate in the governance of every facet affecting their life.
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