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National Geographic Photo of the Day by Craig Goodwin // Instagram // Edited by MFL

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It’s all about the light. I slept in my truck while traveling through Oregon and Washington for a week. Usually I absolutely hate waking up early, but doing that really allowed me to put myself in the right places at the right times. There really is nothing like waking up to views like these every morning. 

Washington and Oregon, August 2015

Niiiice!

this made me feel really uneasy, the ocean is terrifying.

its like when cats bring home a dead bird and drop it at your feet except the ocean is like I HAVE BROUGHT YOU THIS ENORMOUS TREE FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ENJOY

Depths of hell … it isn’t the ocean that grew that tree; it most likely grew up somewhere along the Pacific Northwest and then spent a long while bobbing along in the ocean. Probably a long damn time ago; there isn’t a lot of old growth left that escaped the timber industry and would have fallen into the ocean at that size (or a river, and been carried to sea). I’ve been to a beach in WA that was literally covered with massive, aged driftwood, though not much of it as large as this tree.

Yeah. Just, yeah.

Did you know all of Cape Cod is basically in the fairly early stages of recovery from being clearcut? The arrival of Europeans was basically the ecological equivalent of a major volcanic eruption or an extremely severe forest fire (the kind that burns every last bit of organic matter out of the soil.) In some areas humans have dumped topsoil back on so they can grow gardens, but everywhere else is still in very slow recovery from basically being turned into a desert. It’ll probably take at least another thousand years for the ecosystem to recover fully. Probably more on the order of several thousand years, if we’re gonna be realistic.

Botanist out

I did not know that about Cape Cod specifically, tho I knew New England had been logged in a massive way, destroying all the old growth forests there. Most of my focus on forests/loss of old growth has been along the Pacific coast/West, but I’ve read about similar things in other parts of New England, and the South, and Michigan/Minnesota, where there -were- fires that destroyed the topsoil, b/c of bad logging practices that created horrific fires (as if the logging itself wasn’t bad enough), and I just … *lie down* *try not to cry*

Mount St. Helens before and after its 1980 eruption.

—via EarthSky.org

Eric Johnson remembers Mount St. Helens eruption

May 18, 1980 – Thirty-five years ago today, the Mount St. Helens volcano erupted in Washington State, creating an explosive column that rose 80,000 feet into the atmosphere and deposited ash in 11 U.S. states. The eruption melted mountain ice and a few entire glaciers, forming a series of massive volcanic mudslides that reached as far as the Columbia River, almost 50 miles away.

(USGS)

35 years ago today, Mount St. Helens violently erupted in Washington. The eruption led to 57 deaths, spewed 900,000 tons of ash, caused 230 square miles of damage, and wiped out 7,000 big game animals. http://usat.ly/1LdQpfe

January 15 2015 - Peaceful protesters on Martin Luther King day are pepper sprayed by Seattle police. [video]

Dude’s just walking on his phone.

Fuck police. Fuck government.

This happened right in Seattle, that was a teacher from Garfield High School on the phone with his mother. He’s suing the city for $500,000 dollars. This was at the MLK peaceful march against Police brutality. It’s always be and well in Seattle. They actually just arrested an elderly black man in his 70s for walking Down the street using a gold club as a cane. Bitch ass cop said he swung it at her, but they finally released dash cam footage showing he didn’t.

But no, of course the US isn’t a fascist, white-supremacist police state. Cuz you know. Freedom and democracy and stuff.

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12:37pm . Manzanita Beach, Oregon

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1:52pm . White River from the Wonderland Trail, Washington

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Berg Lake - British Columbia, Canada | image by wboland

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