We had to say goodbye to this old timer. It’s been on our property for 20 years.
The hole it left behind is surreal. Old-growth trees consume space and energy that’s difficult to explain. Their presence (and absence) is felt.
Good bye, old friend.
#oldgrowth
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#ThrowbackThursday to July 2015 — I didn't expect to find such lush green ferns in San Diego County, in July! In a quiet north-facing ravine with nice old-growth chaparral, at Black Mountain Open Space Park.
Mid-day at the Wrecks, looking east towards Comox across the old booming ground. I knew men who worked here in the 1940s and 1950s. This is where the Comox Valley old growth forest was dumped off railcars and boomed up for Fraser Mills in Vancouver. I knew these men when I was a boy and they were old, white-haired loggers who worked with my father.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Mossy #OldGrowth #cedar trees in coastal temperate #rainforest.
Old growth logging is still happening in Tasmania—despite claims to the contrary. The industry spin doesn't match the devastating reality on the ground.
#oldgrowth #tasmania #forests #deforestation #greed
https://tasgreensmps.org/media-releases/old-growth-logging-continues-apace-despite-industry-spin/
Tasmanian Greens MPs · Tasmanian Greens MPs | Old Growth Logging Continues Apace Despite Industry SpinIn an act of blatant ecocide, yet another enormous "single rider" rolled through the Derwent Valley this morning. Old growth logging must end as soon as possible.
My favorite section of the Halvor Lunden Trail, where you emerge from the replanted dense forest and find the first old growth giants. You can see from the undergrowth that this is still not recovered forest, if you go higher you can find pristine old growth with bright green undergrowth. Quite a special feeling to see such old living things. #pnw #oldgrowth #hiking #nature
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I think #WeFixTheClimateOrItFixesUs is the the only bottom line that ultimately matters...
As a society we need to find ways to support workers in industries that must transition; also, workers and managers in those industries need to be willing to consider change.
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateChange
#OldGrowth
#SaveOldGrowth
#StopCuttingOldGrowth
Hard to show the scale of this old growth beauty from this shot. It takes about 4 humans, holding hands, to hug the whole trunk of this ancient yellow cedar tree.
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#SilentSunday.
Honour the ancient elder trees 
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a short comment thread from a Lemme user with pinpoint accuracy. (this is also the alt-text)
Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration (article)
What’s the emergency? Climate change isn’t catastrophic enough yet?
It’s so the US can build more vacant houses.
2020 on #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday
A colossal #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is part of the #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
I hiked the big trees trails there - magnificent!
One of the most beautiful times in our #naturepark with lush green and all the bushes and trees #blooming. Copper beeches, an old cherry tree and budding birches. #oldgrowth #trees #bloomscrolling #spring.
This #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is older than the Great Wall of China & older than the Vatican.
All #ElderTrees - of this colossal & majestic scale, must be preserved & their ecosystems protected.
#TIMBER! Finnish PM #petteriorpo government committed to protect the state's #natural & #OldGrowth forests. He broke the promise. The Orpo gov. tuned the criteria so strict, that most of the valuable old & natural forests are left without #protection! #Finnish #forestry #scam yle.fi/a/74-20150836
Scientists, conservation groups slam government over protection of #oldgrowth #forests in #finland
#eu #biodiversity #ForestProtection
https://yle.fi/a/74-20150836
News · Scientists, conservation groups slam government over protection of old-growth forestsResearchers and NGOs have criticised the government’s strict criteria for defining old-growth forests as "a farce" and "a total flop".
A mysterious collection of large beach stones hidden in the Oregon Grape underbrush. Oceanside ancient Douglas Fir forest on an island near Vancouver Island. With Laladoodle.
#forest #trees #douglasfir #oldgrowth #photography #vancouverisland #dogsofmastodon #oldgrowth #mystery @vi @trees @photography
A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.
These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.