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Stump on a stump: A fresh clear cut of second-growth trees reveals giant cedar stumps from the original forest in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.
Photo by: Hig and Erin, Ground Truth Trekking
On the far side of Howe Sound, we followed another set of gravel roads where we weren’t supposed to be, climbing up the valley past a shutdown pulp mill. Then we left the roads behind to walk through a forest of stick straight, spindly, and nearly identical hemlocks, each with the diameter of a dinner plate. The dark forest floor was nearly devoid of undergrowth, and as we sped through it, we marveled at the huge old cedar stumps interspersed among the younger trees...
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