We have inherited these denuded landscapes. We live amongst them and think it’s normal. We have also inherited the very questions that were asked by our ancestors and some of us approach forests in the same manner as people did 200 years and more ago. The slash and burn/clearfell approach. We’re still asking questions of [...]
Seeing these pictures makes me question yet again why we place no value on big trees here, and why we keep cutting down our own forests before they have a chance to mature.
Driving from Bawnboy, Co. Cavan towards Enniskillen the other day, I got stuck behind a big log truck probably heading to Balcas. It brought to mind the last time I had had to move out of the way for a big log truck to pass, which was in Freudenstadt, in the Black Forest in Germany [...]
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