http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/01/climate-driven-pest-devours-n-american-forests/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:08:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/01/climate-driven-pest-devours-n-american-forests/#comment-50114 fabfarmer Tue, 12 May 2009 00:05:08 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/08/01/climate-driven-pest-devours-n-american-forests/#comment-50114 I was there camping in the Rocky Mountain National park this past weekend, it was very disturbing... scary, sad, upsetting...beyond mere words to describe the utter sadness I felt. It was not like a natural forest fire mosaic. It was pure devastation, those trees were completely ravaged. Like a Beetle massacre. So few trees were left alive all I wanted to do while I was there was cry. When I went on my hike I felt as though I were in a tree cemetary. But just as disturbing was the people that I came near my campsite and began to dig up and uproot aspen trees. I began to yell at them about how could they take from a forest that had already been so devasted and I called them "forest rapists". Then they showed me that they were actually given permits to dig up these trees. A speci of tree, by the way, that is intertwined from tree to tree in it's clump because it is one organism....apens rarely transplant well when dug up. So, what can we do? Put on yer walkin' shoes and stop driving so much, stop using so many chemicals, conserve energy, recycle... and plant a tree, don't just dig one up and transplant one. We Don't have dominion over this planet, we are the caretakers. Our home is worth saving. I was there camping in the Rocky Mountain National park this past weekend, it was very disturbing… scary, sad, upsetting…beyond mere words to describe the utter sadness I felt.
It was not like a natural forest fire mosaic. It was pure devastation, those trees were completely ravaged. Like a Beetle massacre. So few trees were left alive all I wanted to do while I was there was cry. When I went on my hike I felt as though I were in a tree cemetary.
But just as disturbing was the people that I came near my campsite and began to dig up and uproot aspen trees. I began to yell at them about how could they take from a forest that had already been so devasted and I called them “forest rapists”. Then they showed me that they were actually given permits to dig up these trees. A speci of tree, by the way, that is intertwined from tree to tree in it’s clump because it is one organism….apens rarely transplant well when dug up.
So, what can we do? Put on yer walkin’ shoes and stop driving so much, stop using so many chemicals, conserve energy, recycle… and plant a tree, don’t just dig one up and transplant one. We Don’t have dominion over this planet, we are the caretakers. Our home is worth saving.

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