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.

I Replied:

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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Music Video: "eARThsong" Written and Sung by Greg Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/tERVWVZUNyw 

This was written at a time that we were living in Chico, California and were surrounded by a corral with 4 horses. We were also growing many plants including morning glory flowers that eventually got so tall that they climbed up to the roof of the little house. The tomato plants produced an abundance of food... quite a miracle... Especially eating them Hot off the vine...

Bm A D G
Planting, planting, planting seeds
D A D
May our garden grow...
Bm A D G
May God bless the earth and rain
D A D
And sprout the seeds I sow
D A D
And sprout the seeds I sow

CHORUS:
G Bm
We've been tilling soil since the dawn of time
A E
The fertile loam of home is nature most divine
G Bm
The lady with the hand upon the plow
A E
is identical, then and now

Weeding, weeding, weeding weeds
feed 'em to the horses
may God bless the new-born foal
and teach it natures forces
and teach it natures forces

Riding, riding, riding steeds
just like long ago
May God bless the hay they eat
and set their eyes aglow

and set their eyes aglow