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A couple Alders still standing....all that was left behind by the clear-cut machine in Washinton's Olympic Penninsula. Think about 20,000 square miles with not a single old-growth tree remaining anywhere. Ecosystems that take thousands of years to mature and develop, stipped away in the blink of an eye, replaced by tree farms that offer a fraction of the biodiversity.

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~phillipwnd Jan 9, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It looks like a graveyard or a battlefield. But really, it's kind of both :dead: Awesome photo, though heartbreaking. :+fav:
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~alexnnn Jan 9, 2009
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!soulfabiano Jan 8, 2009
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Mood: Sadness !horizonseeker Jan 5, 2009
A good shot for awareness, and a sad shot in that we see so clearly the way we are ruining the planet by allowing this to happen :(
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~Stumm47 Jan 5, 2009
I hate to see sights like this but its important that people see it!
Alder you say, how odd!
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~Thorvold Jan 4, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
How sad. This looks like a battle scene. All that's miising are the dead bodies. Great capture.
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*Kittihawk11 Jan 3, 2009
I have to agree this is a fantastic shot from an artistic point of view,:clap: however it is a scene of utter desolation. A comment was made, "Nature repairs itself"...well to some extent this is true if that were the end of the story of man's interference, but sadly it is not. While grasses will grow in these clear cut areas, that do provide food for ungulates, the fact is that the habitat for hundreds of animals and birds is destroyed, some become extinct. Then there are the environmental issues, climate change, lack of rain and we could go on and on. The thing is...here in the Canadian North we are seeing hundreds and hundreds of miles of timber clear cut and the devastation left behind.

This is criminal and I'm glad you brought this issue to light so graphically. A job well done.:star:
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~couleur Jan 2, 2009
Excellent!
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~pirhan Jan 2, 2009
Fantastic. You did a excellent job capturing the feeling of devastation. I live in BC and unfortunately, past the nicely trimmed roads, selectively out the sights of tourists, are massive clear cuts too.
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~Imthenats Jan 1, 2009  Hobbyist Photographer
Damn, well that's just sad :(
Great capture you have though.
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