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“It all looks so real, so virgin, so unspoiled.” There were some poor logging practices in place on national forests in the past. Much of this has changed. But to call any forest in the US “virginal” is not only likely inaccurate but also offensive to the people who were here first, actively managing the lands for sustenance.
— Jan 16, 2025 12:06PM
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Amelia Halgren
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“She’s sure these men who run the field [of forestry] will have to fall, next year or the year after. And up from the downed trunks of their beliefs will spring rich new undergrowth.”
— Jan 19, 2025 05:37PM
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“Yet still this tree has a secret tucked into the thin, living cylinder beneath its bark. Its cells obey an ancient formula: Keep still. Wait. Something in the lone survivor knows that even the ironclad law of Now can be outlasted. There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.”
— Dec 26, 2020 06:08PM
Amelia Halgren
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I was a little put off by the new age mysticism of the opening. My first experience hearing of someone ‘communing with trees’ was in a conversation with a coworker. His job as a Wildland Fire Investigator lead him to a lady who improperly doused her illegal campfire while ‘communing with trees’ and was responsible for burning thousands of acres of forest. (Left me a little skeptical.)
— Dec 26, 2020 06:07PM
