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Oddly Shaped Forest Clearcut and Replanting Near Mount Lassen, CA - Literally Hundreds of Rectangular Clearcuts... Invisible from the Road... Visible From Space! and the Movie "Clearcut Nation" all about this Land...

Streetview of Highway 44
Note That You Cannot See the Logging
FROM THE ROAD.

Satellite Photo from Far Away

Closer View of the Clearcut and Replanting

Note the Shadows: Tall Trees and Newly Planted Short Ones

Satellite View of the Entire Lassen Park and Foothills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dde1dv86M7Q&t=0s

Clearcut Nation - the Movie

'Clearcut Nation' illuminates the decades of destructive logging practices which have been approved in the watersheds and forests of California--the watersheds that support all of the life in the state. It focuses on the Battle Creek watershed in Shasta and Tehama counties as an example, but overall is about how we treat, and relate to, the natural world. It includes interviews with author Derrick Jensen, botanist Julie Kierstead Nelson, PhD fire and vegetation ecologist Dennis Odion, PhD hydrologist Tom Myers, wildlife biologist Monica Bond, and rural residents who have experienced the vast changes to the land. This film is based on 8 years of research and field work, as well as decades of life experience in the wild lands of California. More info: www.thebattlecreekalliance.org A film by Marily Woodhouse, Battle Creek Alliance Battle Creek Alliance, northern California, Shasta County

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and on a different subject...

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SE Said:

My dad told me the most interesting story, and I thought I'd share.

There used to be a world famous violinist named Yehudi Menuhin, and at one point in time, he lived in Los Gatos. He spent a lot of time on tour, and he would ship his own personal Steinway piano all over the world to be played by his accompanist in his concerts. After the tour, the piano would be shipped back to Los Gatos. He had the phone number which was later acquired by my family in the 1960's, before my time. My dad said that every once in a while, someone would call and ask, "Where do you want us to deliver the piano?"

To this day, my parents still have that same phone number.

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Many people have their piano shipped from one concert to the next at GREAT EXPENSE - You have to hire a Person to tune it... That's a Full time Job if You're on the road with a Famous Band... All that moving and temperature changes put the instrument out of tune... SO... One Day Stevie Wonder was Talking to Raymond Kurzweil (the man who made a book reader for Blind People) and Stevie Said: Build me a Really Great Portable Electronic Piano... and So... Kurzweil and Moog built one... and TRULY... It's a Fantastic Instrument... and the Piano Tuner Got Laid Off... https://kurzweil.com/

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It must be Horrible to Work at a Climate Change Denier Think Tank. Imagine going to work and writing false studies designed to make the world a worse place to live.

Headline: A MAJOR COAL COMPANY WENT BUST. ITS BANKRUPTCY FILING SHOWS THAT IT WAS FUNDING CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISM. The documents in the court docket show that the coal giant gave contributions to leading think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change, as well as to several conservative advocacy groups that have attempted to undermine policies intended to shift the economy toward renewable energy.

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/16/coal-industry-climate-change-denial-cloud-peak-energy/

A Friend of Mine Did Not Believe That Her Car Was On the Wrong Side of the Road and Heading for a Logging Truck... and then... She Went Through Her Windshield Head First! Wham! Reality DID Exist! But Climate Change Deniers Fail to Grasp That Simple Fact...

The document shows that Cloud Peak Energy helped fund the Institute of Energy Research, a Washington, D.C.-based group that has dismissed the “so-called scientific consensus” on climate change and regularly criticizes investments in renewable energy as a “waste” of resources.

Several of the groups that receive funding from Cloud Peak Energy have used aggressive tactics to attempt to discredit environmentalists. The Center for Consumer Freedom, one of the groups listed in the coal company’s filing, is part of a sprawling network of front groups set up by a lobbyist named Rick Berman geared toward attacking green groups such as the Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch as dangerous radicals.

Other organizations quietly bankrolled by Cloud Peak Energy have directly shaped state policy. The company provided funding to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group that provides template legislation to state lawmakers. The model bills promote the fossil fuel agenda. One model bill declares that there is a “great deal of scientific uncertainty” around climate change; others are designed to repeal environmental regulations on coal-burning power plants.

The Montana Policy Institute — a local libertarian think tank that promotes a discredited claim that world temperatures are falling, not rising, and questions whether humans cause climate change — also received funding from the firm.

Cloud Peak Energy, the filing shows, funded Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers-backed group that mobilizes political opposition to Democratic politicians and climate regulations. The mining firm also financed Crossroads GPS, a “dark-money” group that funneled millions of undisclosed dollars into Senate races in support of GOP politicians during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. The Western Caucus Foundation, which supports congressional efforts to deregulate the mining sector and sell off public lands for energy development, received funding as well.

Many of the political dollars listed in the filing appear routine among coal industry firms. The Wyoming coal firm provided financing to an array of trade groups, including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the National Mining Association, and the American Coal Council, that lobby legislators on mine industry priorities.

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Great Documentary: "Crude" - The History of Oil, from the Jurassic Dinosaur formation into the Future. With interviews of Oil Scientists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_(2007_film) http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/

Coming in the wake of rising global concerns about the continued supply of oil, and increasingly weird weather patterns, award-winning Australian filmmaker, Dr Richard Smith takes us through time: from the birth of oil deep in the dinosaur-inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. Filmed on location in 11 countries across five continents, Smith consults the leading international scientific experts to join the dots between geology and economy and provide the big-picture view of oil.

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Crude

Coming in the wake of rising global concerns about the continued supply of oil, and increasingly weird weather patterns, award-winning Australian filmmaker, Dr Richard Smith takes us through time: from the birth of oil deep in the dinosaur-inhabited past, to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. Filmed on location in 11 countries across five continents, Smith consults the leading international scientific experts to join the dots between geology and economy and provide the big-picture view of oil.