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Making the Majestic into the Mundane
In the market a tree is no longer a tree. It’s stakes, shakes, boards, pilings, ties, etc., all at a price.
Feb 19
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Robert Aquinas McNally
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From Landmarks to Lumber
Two giant redwoods guided sailing vessels past a sunken hazard. Then they disappeared into some lumberman’s pile of planks.
Feb 12
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The Little Bird That Stopped the Big Lumber Baron
But now MAGA is planning to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act and hand the trees over.
Feb 5
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Genocide and Resurrection on Humboldt Bay
Given everything they were put through, the Wiyots should have been exterminated. They refused to disappear.
Jan 29
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Rain and the Rhinoceros
When Thomas Merton encountered the redwoods, a rainy night had already primed him for revelation.
Jan 22
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To See Such Trees
California’s redwoods drew mystic Thomas Merton toward the spiritual center he had long been seeking.
Jan 15
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The Massacre That Helped Save the Last Redwoods
Attaching a survivor’s name to an old-growth grove made its preservation immediate, personal, and possible.
Jan 8
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Thoreau Foresaw Trump’s Arctic Desecrations
The seer of Walden Pond understood how greedy men attack wild evidence of their own cosmic insignificance.
Dec 18, 2025
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