Cascadian Action has received accusations of being, both an environmentalist hippie tree-hugger organization that does not understand the necessity of industry, and a productivist organization that will clear cut forests and level mountains for the sake of production and industrialization. We have also received questions of whether we are a productivist or environmentalist organization...
Cascadia is a bioregion. Cascadia is a noun and a place. Cascadian, as an adjective or demonym, means someone or something associated with Cascadia (the bioregion). The name Cascadia comes from the word “cascades” meaning falling water or waterfalls. In the 1820s, David Douglas named the mountain range the Cascades...
The blue represents the moisture rich sky above and Pacific Ocean along with the Salish Sea, lakes and other inland waters. Our home is of continuous cascading waters flowing from our sky and mountains back to the Pacific. For Cascadia is a land of falling water from the Pacific to the western slopes of the Rockies where water cycles as vapor and then rain and snow to run through creek and river back to the Pacific....