We hope that as an open source symbol, every community, ecoregion, watershed, business and cause will adopt and adapt the Doug Flag to their own purposes.īy using the Doug Flag, and the green white and blue, we show a shared regional identity, and that we share common beliefs, dreams and principles. Cascadia is a movement that was born in the northwest throughout the 1980’s. It is not ‘the Cascadia flag’ but rather, one of thousands. All these symbols come together to symbolize what being Cascadian is all about. The lone-standing Douglas Fir symbolizes endurance, defiance, and resilience. The white represents snow and clouds, and the green represents the evergreen forests and fields of the Pacific Northwest. Our home is a place of continuous cascading waters flowing from the Pacific to the western slopes of the Rockies and Cascades where water cycles back to the Pacific. In seeking out a bioregional flag, I believe that it’s the bioregion that will capture the artist-not the artist capturing the bioregion.The Cascadia Doug flag is a symbol for our landscape and is a direct representation of the bioregion, and for our movement. Designed in 1994 by Portland native Alexander Baretich, the blue of the flag represents the moisture-rich sky above, and the Pacific Ocean, along with the Salish Sea, lakes, and inland waters. Like the classic Cascadian flag, also known as the “Doug Flag”, I hope this flag-as well as all my designs-will not be used for hate, exploitation, and against the values or principles of bioregionalism. We hope to sell or offer this flag only to owners or captains of vessels-ideally merchant vessels that conduct fair trade as opposed to “free trade” or vessels that have a mission of exploration, research, ecology, bioregional awareness, and/or for socioeconomic and ecological justice. The Doug” logo of the Cascadian Flag Making Cooperative. Our general goal is to provide Cascadian flags, locally produced and “artist-certified” with our logo, the symbol. Three colleagues and I have just launched the Cascadian Flag Making Cooperative. A longer flag may well serve a vessel better than a shorter one. I intentionally made the flag extra long (longer than 1:2), although I have made versions in standard proportions. It is certainly part of our collective iconography to represent bodies of water with blue and white waves. Several other flags in the Pacific Northwest have blue and white waves, including British Columbia, the Zapatopi Cascadian flag, and the city of Vancouver, B.C.-they may have played an unconscious element of my creation of Cascadian Nautical flag. The Douglas Fir echoes the central symbol of the 1995 Cascadia flag. The green isosceles triangle with its base against the hoist represents the forest-clad hills and mountains. The white waves next to the two lower blue waves represent sea foam and the crest of waves. At the bottom of the flag, the two blue waves represent the Pacific Ocean and the Salish Sea as well as the region’s rivers (Columbia, Willamette, Frazer, Snake, etc.). Between the two green waves is a single white wave that represents mist or low clouds. Two green waves are the forest-covered hills. Hence the white waves next to those two top blue waves represent snowpack and clouds. Designer: Alexander Baretich.Īt the top of the flag, the two blue and three white waves represent the mountains and partially clear sky. The Cascadian Nautical Flag: A tribute to the waters and sky of the bioregion. The “Cascadian Wave Flag” is a tribute to the bioregion’s waters and sky. In 2012, nearly 17 years after designing the popular Cascadian flag, I created a nautical flag for Cascadia, specifically for vessels of oceans, rivers, and the sky. and Canada’s Pacific Northwest ( see VT #36). By Alexander Baretich, Vexilloid Tabloid #53Ĭascadia is a bioregion roughly encompassing Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and parts of other states and provinces in the U.S.
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