Submitted by tree lover on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 12:21.
First, thank you to Kristen, to the Wilderness Society, to all commenters, and to all who work to protect the earth we live on. Your letters bring tears to my eyes. I am so grateful that we may be in time to reverse the damages done by over-industrializing our planet home. Thank you to all who have made that possible, even perhaps the greedy that stimulate us to take action we might otherwise be content not to take. Let us commit to reversing the harms and doing what we can, where we are, with what we have.
Of all the great spaces in our beautiful land, my personal favorites are all in the Pacific Northwest. I love the mountains and ocean and desert and volcanic lands and temperate zone rain forests and old growth groves of Oregon, the giant redwood forests of northern California, and I plan to visit Olympic National Park with my husband one day soon.
I too have seen sites from coast to coast; what an incredible land we live in. The low country of the southeast with its huge flocks of birds; the Atlantic ocean, especially the estuaries where tiny wild sea creatures are nurtured; glorious foliage color in New England in the fall; the thundering sensations and flowing waters of Niagara Falls; the cool greenness of the Delaware Water Gap in summer; the lovely rivers that flow into the great Mississippi; the Great Muddy itself; the huge forests of the Great Lakes areas; the susurrating and subtle beauty of the prairies; the inspiring grandness of the Rocky Mountains; the beautiful sunsets and desert colors in New Mexico; the northern reaches of the delta landscape in southern Illinois' Shawnee Forest; these are all places I've visited and loved. I hope to see and smell and hear and taste many more of the places mentioned on this blog before my life ends. Thanks to all who shared.
Oregon's Old Growth Forests
First, thank you to Kristen, to the Wilderness Society, to all commenters, and to all who work to protect the earth we live on. Your letters bring tears to my eyes. I am so grateful that we may be in time to reverse the damages done by over-industrializing our planet home. Thank you to all who have made that possible, even perhaps the greedy that stimulate us to take action we might otherwise be content not to take. Let us commit to reversing the harms and doing what we can, where we are, with what we have.
Of all the great spaces in our beautiful land, my personal favorites are all in the Pacific Northwest. I love the mountains and ocean and desert and volcanic lands and temperate zone rain forests and old growth groves of Oregon, the giant redwood forests of northern California, and I plan to visit Olympic National Park with my husband one day soon.
I too have seen sites from coast to coast; what an incredible land we live in. The low country of the southeast with its huge flocks of birds; the Atlantic ocean, especially the estuaries where tiny wild sea creatures are nurtured; glorious foliage color in New England in the fall; the thundering sensations and flowing waters of Niagara Falls; the cool greenness of the Delaware Water Gap in summer; the lovely rivers that flow into the great Mississippi; the Great Muddy itself; the huge forests of the Great Lakes areas; the susurrating and subtle beauty of the prairies; the inspiring grandness of the Rocky Mountains; the beautiful sunsets and desert colors in New Mexico; the northern reaches of the delta landscape in southern Illinois' Shawnee Forest; these are all places I've visited and loved. I hope to see and smell and hear and taste many more of the places mentioned on this blog before my life ends. Thanks to all who shared.