Cascadia's Original Forests

We don't even know what we lost

 

Cascadia’s forests include the most carbon dense biomes on Earth.
(giant Western Red Cedar in Washington State)

 

 

The world’s tallest trees are the coast redwoods of northern California.

 

 

But even the remnants of old growth pale compared to the original forests chopped down a century ago.

(76 foot circumference Western Red Cedar, somewhere in Washington State)

 

It’s hard for us to even imagine what North America was like when a squirrel could travel from the Mississippi to the Atlantic without setting a paw upon the ground.

 

Art in Orland California