I looked at the dead-forest-standing. I was thrilled to be working in this venerable expanse; I didn’t even mind figuring out how to log some trees. But obliterating whole tracts in one fell swoop would leave little foundation to help the forest recover. The trees grew in clusters, with the eldest and largest—one meter in girth, thirty meters in height—in the deepest part of the hollows where the water collected, with younger trees of various ages and sizes close by. Like chicks clutched around a mother ptarmigan. The grooves of their bark housed tufts of wolf lichen, easy for the deer to
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