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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 // 23 BOOK SHELF // GLIMPSE // WILDLIFE // POP CULTURE // WORDS // Q&A // FOOD // FUN NW word nerd By RYAN HUME Cascadia [kæs•ked•di•ə] noun 1. a bioregion that stretches from Northern California through the Pacifi c Northwest and across British Columbia into southeast Alaska. Including the entire Columbia River basin as well as the nearby Pacifi c Ocean ecosystem, the boundaries of the bioregion are based on distinct vegetation, climate and other environmental similarities as opposed to man-made borders 2. a proposed inde- pendent nation state and social, political and envi- ronmental movement that encompasses all of the bioregion, reaching across Idaho and into western Montana as well. The move- ment’s philosophy purports that the various peoples of the region have more in common socially, econom- ically and environmentally than they do with the eastern governments of the United States and Canada. Some supporters stop short of calling for secession and merely aim to strengthen a sense of common regional identity and create trans- national cooperation as it relates to transportation, economics and the envi- ronment. Critics maintain that the formation of an independent state is unlike- ly for a number of reasons, including the fact that no state or territory has ever successfully seceded from the U.S. or Canada 3. Cascadia Subduc- tion Zone: Also known as AP PHOTO/RICK BOWMER, FILE ZACH URNESS The word “cascadia” means “land of falling waters.” Multnomah Falls, located in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, is the United States’ second-tallest year-round waterfall. STATESMAN-JOURNAL VIA AP WIKIMEDIA COMMONS This fl ag, designed by Alexander Baretich during the academic year of 1994-1995, represents the bioregion of Cascadia. the Cascadia fault, this 600-plus-mile “megathrust” fault line runs from Van- couver Island, B.C., down through Cape Mendoci- no, California, and is the combustible site of where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate is lodged beneath the continental North American Plate Origin: The fi rst known use of the term cascade in the Pacifi c Northwest is around 1811 and attributed to the Astor expedition, which mapped a narrow, dangerous set of rapids on the Columbia River near the mountain range and noted the passage as Cascade Rapids. It is widely believed that botanist David Douglas was the fi rst to refer to the range itself as the Cascades in 1825. He would go on to name a tree after himself about a year later. A small unincorporated community in central Oregon is credited with fi rst attaching the suffi x to create Cascadia, Oregon in 1892. By 1898, the community had a post offi ce and hotel, but the property was sold to the state in 1940 and is currently Cascadia State Park in Linn County. The term Cascadia fell dormant for a number of years before being revived in the 1970s by natural scientists aiming to describe the geographical region. In the late 1970s, the term began to gather political implications, most notably when a Seattle University sociology profes- SUBMITTED PHOTO As the Juan de Fuca, Gorda and Explorer plates are pushed eastward, they are forced to subduct beneath the North Amer- ican Plate. Strain builds up where they have become stuck (locked) and will be released one day in a great earthquake, which will also cause a tsunami. sor, David McCloskey, began teaching a course entitled “Cascadia: Sociology of the Pacifi c Northwest.” McCloskey, who has drawn the fi rst as well as the most current maps of the proposed indepen- dent state, summarizes the meaning of the term as “land of falling waters.” Cascade enters English less than 200 years before it was applied to the Colum- bia River’s rapids, borrowed from the French of the same spelling in 1641 and is linked to the Italian cognate cascata, meaning waterfall, which can be traced back to the Latin cāsum, the past participle of cadere, to fall. This photo taken Sept. 8, 2015, shows an island and the blue expanse of Summit Lake with Diamond Peak in the background, in the De- schutes National Forest near Oakride. Summit Lake is one of the great secret places in the Cascade Mountains not just because of its islands, but also because of the clear water and views of Diamond Peak. “Using data with an unprecedent- ed level of detail, a team of interna- tional researchers, including some from Oregon State University, have found that a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is more likely than previously thought.” “Further, Cascadia is a word euphonious and round with a sound-ending ‘ia’—meaning ‘land of…’, a pleasing parallel to California, Columbia, and so on.” —Kale Williams, “Odds of Big One revised upward,” The Daily Astorian, Aug. 11, 2016 —David McCloskey, “Name,” Cascadia Institute, http://cascadia-institute.org/ name.html, 2010 Where Astoria Shops! is Every Day The 420 at with Farmacy, ck Cash Ba ! Rewards! Great professional, friendly service in a relaxed atmosphere along with a wide selection of the best of Oregon brands and growers! 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