Old-growth stumps, reminders of 120 years of logging, haunt Bowen Island, my home on Canada’s west coast. These mounds are slowly decaying into complex tangles of decomposing and regenerating growth.
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Old-growth stumps, reminders of 120 years of logging, haunt Bowen Island, my home on Canada’s west coast. These mounds are slowly decaying into complex tangles of decomposing and regenerating growth.
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