June 27, 2007
Among the Giants in Beautiful Lower Mariposa Grove
Sequoiadendron giganteum
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Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
Mariposa Grove
June 27, 2007
Among the Giants in Beautiful Lower Mariposa Grove
Sequoiadendron giganteum
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Jedediah B Smith Redwoods State Park Forest Panorama
Jedediah B Smith Redwoods State Park Forest Panorama
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Citizens for the Future
Merry Christmas!
Here's a treat I want to share with you, it's from a while back. I hope you enjoy! Peace, Berd
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On the trail through an urban rainforest "wilderness". This is about as wilderness as it gets in an urban setting. To the best of my knowledge, Watershed Park is a first growth forest. The reason it was never cut during the logging boom was because it provided the city's drinking water . It provided the bulk of Olympia's water until the 1950s when the city switched to other water sources. After the switch, it then took a lot of hard work by a dedicated group of citizens in order to save the forest from being logged to death. Those Citizens for the Future were successful some 50 odd years ago, and Olympia has a true gem of a park to thank them for today.
Here's a treat I want to share with you, it's from a while back. I hope you enjoy! Peace, Berd
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On the trail through an urban rainforest "wilderness". This is about as wilderness as it gets in an urban setting. To the best of my knowledge, Watershed Park is a first growth forest. The reason it was never cut during the logging boom was because it provided the city's drinking water . It provided the bulk of Olympia's water until the 1950s when the city switched to other water sources. After the switch, it then took a lot of hard work by a dedicated group of citizens in order to save the forest from being logged to death. Those Citizens for the Future were successful some 50 odd years ago, and Olympia has a true gem of a park to thank them for today.
Wildlife Refuge on the Nisqually
This is from a very beautiful area of the Puget Sound, where the Nisqually river, which originates upon the majestic snow-clad slopes of Mount Rainier, meets the salt water of the Puget Sound, connecting with the world Ocean beyond...
There is a wonderful 5.5 mile loop trail around what was once a farm. The loop trail is scheduled to close in an effort to further ecological restoration. Gorgeous place.
Corporate Power: the Ethics of Social and Environmental Degradation
This is a work in progress. Here are few statements that I want to explore, and a few questions that I want to answer and work with in more depth.
1) Statement: Corporate Power - that power which is vested in the biggest and most massive (primarily) international corporations - is doing harm to humanity and to the planet (to animals, plants, rocks, landscapes, mountains, oceans, air, water, etc.).
2) Question: Is it unethical to reap financial profit, from those activities which do harm and cause degradation: whether to individuals, whole societies, or whole systems (eco-systems or planets)? An alternative question is to ask "what are the ethics involved in" the process of reaping financial reward from activities which do harm / cause degradation.
(Yes, moralizing can be difficult, but we have social values and morals and ethics for a reason - to provide for the well-being, and to protect, individual, society, and increasingly more so, the very planet itself.)
Taken to its extreme and ultimate final end product, social and environmental degradation could possibly result in a destroyed planet - i.e. planetary destruction. It's scary to think that humanity may be so advanced "techno'logically'" that it will even be able to escape such a destroyed planet - only to spread a culture of degradation and destruction into other worlds...
1) Statement: Corporate Power - that power which is vested in the biggest and most massive (primarily) international corporations - is doing harm to humanity and to the planet (to animals, plants, rocks, landscapes, mountains, oceans, air, water, etc.).
2) Question: Is it unethical to reap financial profit, from those activities which do harm and cause degradation: whether to individuals, whole societies, or whole systems (eco-systems or planets)? An alternative question is to ask "what are the ethics involved in" the process of reaping financial reward from activities which do harm / cause degradation.
(Yes, moralizing can be difficult, but we have social values and morals and ethics for a reason - to provide for the well-being, and to protect, individual, society, and increasingly more so, the very planet itself.)
Taken to its extreme and ultimate final end product, social and environmental degradation could possibly result in a destroyed planet - i.e. planetary destruction. It's scary to think that humanity may be so advanced "techno'logically'" that it will even be able to escape such a destroyed planet - only to spread a culture of degradation and destruction into other worlds...
Walk in the Woods
Here are some photos that I took during a walk in the old growth forest of Watershed Park in Olympia Washington on February 17, 2008:
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