Evergreen
These snow-covered spruce trees were along the Parks Highway at the pullout where I took this picture. This is near a little highway town called Healy where we didn't stop. I don't know who owns all the land here along the highway, whether it's the town of Healy or the Borough or Denali National Park. It might be oil company land. It might just be ... land. You can have that in Alaska, I think, though I don't know how common it is along a road.
I'm still thinking my political thoughts, of course, and I can't stop thinking about those trees. Trump pulled the trigger on his dumbass voluntary trade war with Canada, and is using the fake emergency he invented around it to wreck all kinds of environmental protections Republican morons have hated for decades. Part of this involves a plan to clear-cut 280 million acres of Forest Service land -- pretty much the entire Forest Service -- to make up for the sudden increase we in these not-at-all United States are about to see in the price of lumber. That by itself is an area 2/3rds the size of Alaska and twice the size of Texas, and it will include places that I love very dearly. It will no doubt wipe out stands of forests I love in Colorado and in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trees in this picture will probably be okay, though.
I'll go up to Michigan and take pictures when they start cutting the forests down.
Evergreen
These snow-covered spruce trees were along the Parks Highway at the pullout where I took this picture. This is near a little highway town called Healy where we didn't stop. I don't know who owns all the land here along the highway, whether it's the town of Healy or the Borough or Denali National Park. It might be oil company land. It might just be ... land. You can have that in Alaska, I think, though I don't know how common it is along a road.
I'm still thinking my political thoughts, of course, and I can't stop thinking about those trees. Trump pulled the trigger on his dumbass voluntary trade war with Canada, and is using the fake emergency he invented around it to wreck all kinds of environmental protections Republican morons have hated for decades. Part of this involves a plan to clear-cut 280 million acres of Forest Service land -- pretty much the entire Forest Service -- to make up for the sudden increase we in these not-at-all United States are about to see in the price of lumber. That by itself is an area 2/3rds the size of Alaska and twice the size of Texas, and it will include places that I love very dearly. It will no doubt wipe out stands of forests I love in Colorado and in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trees in this picture will probably be okay, though.
I'll go up to Michigan and take pictures when they start cutting the forests down.