"The People Who Wouldn't Mind if the Pacific Northwest Was Its Own Country".
^ a b Baretich, Alexander (June 22, 2012). Note: Reprinted by the Discovery Institute. ^ a b Baretich, Alexander (14 August 2015). The flag featured as part of Seattle Sounders FC's 2021–2022 home jersey, being displayed on the back near the neckline. Furthermore, he said, "In seeking out a bioregional flag, I believe that it's the bioregion that captures the artist-not the artist capturing the bioregion." In 2015, Baretich expressed his hope that his designs "would not be used for hate, exploitation, and anything that goes against the values or principles of bioregionalism". The Seattle-based folk band Fleet Foxes included the flag on the back of their 2011 studio album Helplessness Blues. , though this no longer appears to be the case. The flag appeared for some time on boxes of beer from Phillips Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia. In 2014, Kelton Sears of Vice Media said the flag "has quickly become the dominant symbol of the nascent Cascadian identity", appearing on microbreweries' beer labels and at local events, including Portland Timbers games, gay pride parades, environmental protests, and activities affiliated with the Occupy movement. Since its inception, Baretich's design has gained popularity and earned status as the unofficial flag of Cascadia. , which claims to enforce protection of the ideals espoused by the flag's creator in its use. The Cascadian Flag is copyrighted by Alexander Baretich and his company the Cascadian Flag Cooperative, Inc. The flag being carried by fans at a Portland Timbers game in Portland, Oregon in 2010 According to Baretich and CascadiaNow!, "all these symbols of color and images come together to symbolize what being Cascadian is all about." Scheme The tree symbolizes "endurance, defiance and resilience against fire, flood, catastrophic change, and ever increasingly against the anthropocentric man". The white represents clouds and snow and the green represents the region's countless fields and evergreen forests. The blue stripe represents the sky, Pacific Ocean and Salish Sea, as well as the myriad of rivers in the bioregion including the Columbia, the Snake, and Fraser Rivers. 
The flag is a tricolor consisting of three horizontal stripes of blue, white, and green, charged with a single Douglas fir tree in the center. Īccording to the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, the flag symbolizes "the natural beauty and inspiration that the Pacific Northwest provides, and is a direct representation of the bioregion". Unlike many flags, this is not a flag of blood, nor of the glory of a nation, but a love of the bioregion our ecological family and its natural boundaries the place in which we live and love.
The flag conveys something far more tangible than an abstract concept of demarcation of space the flag captures that love of living communities in our bioregion. Prior to the design and its popularity, the idea of Cascadia–specifically the bioregion–was pretty much an abstract concept reserved for radical geographers and hip sociologists. One day as I sat on a hill with my companion, I had this vision of a flag where the Cascadian landscape came to mind. Though I totally love the people, cultures and landscape of Eastern Europe, I was deeply homesick for the forests of Cascadia, specifically the Willamette Valley forests I grew up around. I designed the Cascadian flag, aka the Doug, way back in the mid-1990s when I was a graduate student studying in Eastern Europe. The Doug flag was designed by Portland, Oregon native Alexander Baretich in the academic year of 1994–1995. Doug flag at the Women's March on Portland
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