FOR THE LOVE OF TREES!
One only needs to take an trip to Iceland to start missing trees!
I’m surrounded by trees. Who in New Hampshire isn’t? We have 86 native tree species in New Hampshire.
Believe it or not we have more trees now than we did 100 years or so ago. Back then New England was basically deforested for farm land and for lumber.
Today the USDA’s Forest Service says that New Hampshire is the MOST FORESTED state in the lower 48. A whopping 86% of the state is covered in trees.
Trees provide fresh air, the soak up pollution, they protect water sources, provide shade, give us nice things to eat like apples and pear. They occasionally fall on our house or drop on an acorn on our heads but mostly there to provide a calming blanket of green all summer and an incredible display of color in the fall. Then out come the rakes.
Sometimes you get a bit claustrophobic around here with all the trees and mountains. I find myself yearning for open spaces like out in Montana, at the shore or perhaps the Southwest. As a photographer its a challenge when the trees are in “stick season” or even if they are uni-formally all green.
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