Show threadCory DoctorowSep 16, 2023

Writing in the #NewYorkTimes, novelist #ClaireCameron describes her own teen years working in the bush, planting row after row of #BlackSpruces, precisely spaced at six-foot intervals:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/wildfires-treeplanting-timebomb.html

Cameron's summer job was funded by the logging industry, whose #SelfRegulated, self-assigned "penalty" for clearcutting diverse forests of spruce, pine and aspen was to pay teenagers to create a #TreeFarm, at nine cents per sapling (minus camp costs).

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Opinion | What It’s Like to Watch This Year’s Wildfires After Spending a Summer Planting Trees.

I spent a summer putting trees into the ground. Thirty years later, I watched my youthful idealism literally go up in smoke.

The New York Times