Rumbling lumber trucks

The drive back to Portland was less than three and a half hours, including a stop for lunch, but it feels like another world entirely. We passed hundreds of trucks loaded up with trees on the way to lumber yards. 

Global climate change. Glaciers melting. Forests being cut down and not sustainably re-planted. Mycorrhizal layers stripped. Mycelium ravaged. I'm grateful for scientists like Suzanne Simard and those she is training. Perhaps their knowledge will avert disaster, though you wouldn't know anything was being averted from these trucks.

I have back-blipped a few photos from the trip to Tahoma June 7, 8, and 9. What a privilege to be there. What daily miracles.