crates | June 29, 2007
Not too many years ago, a French company after comparing satellite images said that Washington state had cut relatively more forest than had been cleared in the Amazonian rain forest. This came at a time when alarms were being spread around the world concerning the rate at which the rainforests of that area were disappearing. Weyerhaeuser (“the tree growing company”) responded indignantly by [...]
Category: Ecology |
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Tags: biodiversity, Clear cutting, environment, forest depletion, Global Warming, logging, nature, species diversity, tree farms, Weyerhaeuser
crates | June 26, 2007
For many years I have admired this incredible stand of Western Redcedar beside the road that I travel. Almost daily I rested my eyes upon the lush beauty of this thick growth of evergreens which appeared to form an impenetrable wall along the road. It was dark beneath the trees in the few places that I could [...]
Category: biology, Ecology, Plants |
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Tags: Clear cutting, nature, Thuja plicata, Western Redcedar, Weyerhaeuser
