by eab | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog |
We have received several emails to the trees, including this lovely email from a family who visited 14 of the 30 trees accepting emails during April, 2016. Thank you Grace, Elly and Susu! Dear Black Locust, Today we went and found fourteen of you trees. We hugged you...
by eab | Apr 2, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Today’s visit to the Bloedel Reserve for Journey to the Surface of Bainbridge got me thinking about contrasts and contradictions. On the one hand, the Bloedels made their money by processing timber cut from old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. On the...
by eab | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog |
Trees and climate change are intricately linked in the story of climate change. Trees are great carbon sinks—a 40 year old tree can store as much as 1 ton of carbon—although the exact amount varies by species and climate. And trees are what created the...
by eab | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog |
The aftermath of clear-cutting is an ecological horror story. The Carmanah Valley is one of the last areas of old-growth forest left on Vancouver Island and is home to a spectacular stand of Sitka spruce. But it is also threatened by big logging interests which have...
by eab | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog |
I love the pine trees in the Pacific Northwest; they are beautiful trees and they smell good! I particularly love the white bark pine, probably because I see it most often on hikes in beautiful places. But our pine forests are disappearing, thanks to climate change...
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