highcountrynews: This Map Shows Where All The Trees Are In The US NASA’s Earth Observatory just released a map illustrating where all the trees are in America. The map was created over six years by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey. The dark swaths of green represent parts of the country with the greatest concentration of biomass. You can see dense tree cover in the Pacific Northwest as well New England, which has been reforested after intensive logging in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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This Map Shows Where All The Trees Are In The US

NASA’s Earth Observatory just released a map illustrating where all the trees are in America. The map was created over six years by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey. The dark swaths of green represent parts of the country with the greatest concentration of biomass. You can see dense tree cover in the Pacific Northwest as well New England, which has been reforested after intensive logging in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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33 /365: Not all beauty blooms in Arizona

I don’t know if you have sunstroke from all that weather
Maybe you never got the memo that curves were in
, and 5’8” isn’t short
, and crows feet are markers of compassion
, but for whatever indescribable reason
, people like yourself
, who claim allegiance to the land of perpetual summer
, cannot handle the beauty of difference

You mistake falling leaves for an omen of the end
and look to winter with heaping apprehension
, fearful that the sun will grow tired of frozen earth
, and give up entirely

Didn’t anyone ever tell you that roots don’t grow deep in the sand?
I can picture a million beautiful sunsets in Arizona
, but I don’t know of any forests there.