Dendrochronology – Robert Moor

In this narrated essay, writer Robert Moor journeys to Haida Gwaii,
an island chain in British Columbia, for the anniversary of a
historic agreement between the Haida Nation and the Canadian
government that protects the landscape’s last remaining old-growth
forests after decades of logging. As he walks through forest
stewarded for generations by Haida, Robert begins to see the tangle
of Sitka spruces and cedars, mosses and lichens, not as a site of
slow decay, but of ongoing growth. How can being in the presence of
ancient trees, he asks, help us feel, rather than intellectualize,
not only the deep past, but also our responsibility to the
future?  Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest
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