🧟 Night of the Living Red Oak (redoak@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:04:01 JST

And I think about how much of the living energy of the mountains for a hundred years or more is bound up in that wood. If we had the time and the tools and the skills, we could put so much of it to so many uses. Or we could leave it be, rearrange paths and roads and plans to accommodate the needs of the soil.

But instead, the bulk of it will be (as far as I can tell) shredded, burned, or just dumped, far from where it grew.