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Some people never see this, but I see it every time I hike, huge stumps left of these giants, red in color, like they have bled to death.
Every back woods cafe has photos on the wall of these BIG trees that were all over this area up until the white man migrated here, (Weyerhauser in particular) and took them all down. As I understand we have some pockets that might not be known about, a few stands, and of course stands we know of, but in Seattle, for instance, not one was left standing.
Maybe no one can really understand 'tree huggers' who haven't seen the majesty of these big trees. They were literally all over this area, and I have to wonder what these numbered, in truck loads ...all these trucks toting trees out of the forest. It is simply unimaginable. ( not only the trees , but the loggers and the trucks). Every valley here, BIG trees, all the way to Puget Sound, and all over NW Canada, too. Try for a minute to picture this, imagine you could come here now and see this portion of the NW, a park, spared for your wonder.
Maybe it's too late, but it isn't too late to save the bees, and water, and fresh air, the oxygen levels, the oceans, and the seas. Not to mention ...us. Remember, the largest Sequoia known:
The large Sequoia on that site gives these stats..
"Ecosystem Services:
It would cost $3589.32 to replace the storm water control service provided by this tree, based on the engineering standards used in the building industry. The same tree removes 20.32 lbs. of nitrogen, sulfur, ozone and particulate matter every year."
Now imagine what millions of these trees did for our environment. ( times 1 million = 20,320,000 lbs of nitrogen, sulfur, ozone, and particulate matter per year). Hope I got my zeros right.
There was more oxygen on the planet in the early 1900's as I understand it, and I have read that lack of oxygen contributes to cancer and disease, obesity, etc. many of our modern day ailments.
I've heard of a stand that might be unknown, (shh don't let the loggers know) and I need a special vehicle to go there, I can't take my car there because the road would ruin my car. I'd like to go photograph it, and measure the trees. Maybe I'll name the place Sherrywood. grin
You'd be the first to see the photos!
Does this make you sad or what? Parading the bounty down Main Street.
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The ancient forests of North America have almost completely disappeared due to robber barons such as Weyerhaeuser. The company first grabbed lands held in public trust in 1900 and continues its pillage today: in May 2008 Weyerhaeuser cut a dirty deal with Plum Creek Timber in Montana which netted the two forest liquidators a total of almost $700 million in tax breaks. We continue to give legitimacy to the annihilation of nature by making loggers into folk heros and by accepting ruthless capitalists as cultural patrons. The Forest History Society proudly proclaims that its existance is largely due to German immigrant Frederick ("Timber King") Weyerhaeuser, and his "personal dedication to preserving the history of the industry that built his family's fortune." The Society goes even further and pretentiously claims to be "unique as the only organization on the planet solely dedicated to preserving forest and conservation history." Back in 1944, Weyerhaeuser's logging propaganda was more directly shown in a series of murals (right).(see link)
Trees as curiosities
In British Columbia..Cathedral Canyon
On 3 May 2006 a group of forest activists and members of the Friends of Cathedral Grove (FROG) set off on an exploratory expedition up the Cameron River into the poorly known and inaccessible Cathedral Canyon (right). They made the shocking discovery that ancient trees in the primaeval and steep elevation forest are being clandestinely high graded for their commercial value and helicopter logged by the Island Timberlands contractors of Brookfield (formerly Brascan, Weyerhaeuser, MacMillan Bloedel). The pristine Cathedral Canyon is the centrepiece of the proposed protection plan to expand Cathedral Grove to a total of 2000 hectares and the destruction of its rare and irreplaceable big trees by the multinational logging industry is yet another assault on BC's endangered ancient fir forest ecosystem.
This site has links to tree sites in Europe
European Tree Sites