Visit Remember the Redwoods and you'll see there are 24 days left in a race to organize a great photo expedition and distribution of self-published photo books.
There are still hundreds of acres of old-growth stands on private lands in California-- many of them were privately purchased by conservationists, but plenty are still threatened by logging.
The Save the Redwoods League has a great map of the historical spread of the Redwoods
and a map of the present-day Redwoods left.
The scarcity of America's true wild lands brings up the price of hardy, beautiful Redwood --
but how do we want to remember these trees? Do you want to remember them as heavy beams in a cabin, as a shiny table or marbleized wooden bowl?
Or do we want to remember them as the living beings that stand, as they stand today?
The photo products of this project will help us remember them as they have lived, and inspire action to protect the trees.
Last July I organized a panel discussion about the changes in Minnesota's wildlife, on a one-hour talk radio program on KFAI community radio, called We're Wild About Wildlife.
This summer I am looking way beyond the decades-long changes of my local ecosystem, towards other important ecosystems like that of the Pacific Northwest.
Thanks for joining me!
