Ever wanted to visit pristine beaches and ancient forests in an untouched Earth taken care of by the great American Indians? Get to know their fantastic Civilization and the natural wonders they protect? Even reverse history and keep it that way?
You can. There are places like that today- and one of them is Clayoquot Sound, not far from Port Renfrew, Canada.
This is one of the best places in the world for Western Red Cedar, fantastic giant Redwood cousins (all false Cedars are Redwood and Cypress cousins)... Trees beyond your wildest dreams. Ancient, magnificent Trees with real character, like from out of a fantasy movie. And like the Trees and their Forests, American Indian Civilization still thrives today.
Two decades ago, logging in this area inspired massive protests by Earth-loving Canadians who were not willing to see their beloved Forests be destroyed. Since then, the American Indian (or First Nations) Tribes in the area have bought out the logging rights for the entire 1,000-some-square-mile area along the coast of Vancouver Island, and have formed their own company to responsibly log the already-logged young Forests so the Old-Growth- the Dream Forest, much of which remains- can be left alone and the world can see that we don't have to destroy Forests. They had to spend a lot of money to protect the Forests... but money doesn't grow on Trees, right?
No, it grows on Tourists. Just by being themselves, Tourists can complete the saving of this vast land- large areas of which are already Old-Growth Provincial or Tribal Parks. So if you want to help, just spread the word- but don't tell people they have to come to save the Forests!
Tell them of the Redwood-sized fantasy Trees, the beautiful beaches, the mossy Forest, the chance to see Whales, the chance to experience American Indian culture....
And be sure and search Clayoquot Sound so you can enjoy it yourself! Until your ship comes in, there are photos, articles- don't forget to Image-Search!- and at least one wonderful YouTube video!
False Cedars aren't the only fantastic Trees- there are huge Douglas-Fir, vast Sitka Spruce, huge broadleaf Trees along the streams, and more, and more... moss, ferns and delicate-seeming little wildflowers everywhere... animals- you might hear a wolf howl! The Forests often come up to the beaches, where Sitka Spruce, among other Trees, can handle the sea spray... and there are whales! I actually know little about this incredible place, which I just descovered on the Internet a few days ago, trying to find out where a picture of an incredible Tree was taken... mostly I know what I have just told you! If you think this seems like a fantastic place, tell others... these Forests have been saved because people spread the word! You are not helpless, you are powerful! And if you would like to learn more about these types of Forests, Search Temperate Rainforest on the Web and visit my main page to view or download (as .txt files) my book about the Temperate Rainforests and more for free! Just for you to enjoy! It's sites.google.com/site/davidannfreestories, or just Google 'davidannfreestories', all one word. And don't forget to Image-Search Clayoquot Sound, the Trees and the Forest- there are incredible photos out there!
David S. Annderson
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Swim, Fishies, swim, Fishies, swim while you can
Swim 'til the Fisherman comes from the land
Fisherman, fisherman, does what he please
Keeps the loggers from cutting down Trees
Trees shelter Fishies so Fishies can swim
Everyone's happy, everyone wins!
David S. Annderson
Free stories on main site:sites.google.com/site/davidannfreestories, or just google 'davidallfreestories, all one word
Trees really do shelter the waters for fish!
Enjoy!
(I was listening to Schubert's Trout Quintet!)
Swim 'til the Fisherman comes from the land
Fisherman, fisherman, does what he please
Keeps the loggers from cutting down Trees
Trees shelter Fishies so Fishies can swim
Everyone's happy, everyone wins!
David S. Annderson
Free stories on main site:sites.google.com/site/davidannfreestories, or just google 'davidallfreestories, all one word
Trees really do shelter the waters for fish!
Enjoy!
(I was listening to Schubert's Trout Quintet!)
You come to a small Canadian port town. You ask around. And you enter Wonderland, a real place beyond imagining.
There's a place called Port Renfrew. They have forests- forests to make those in Avatar pale in comparison. Trees beyond belief- Trees like the Ents of Middle Earth have never seen. This is a very special place to me, though I have only gone in photos on the Internet. Perhaps you can go- it's in Canada, on Vancouver Island, near Vancouver. Once a logging town, tourism has so far protected many (most?) of the great Trees- including four designated Recreation Areas, at least three of which didn't exist a few years ago, and perhaps protected the great unprotected forest as well simply through Tourism. Hopefully the whole area will be protected soon in a Provincial Park- protecting the much larger area around here would create a World Heritage-worthy Park or Biosphere Reserve! This is one of the most remarkable of several places to enter into this other world.
In one direction is a forest place along the San Juan River. The protected area is small, and yet vast- once you are in it, this small area surrounds you. You can stop and rest, look around, hike, and explore in a forest world beyond our own. Immense, otherworldly mossy Bigleaf Maples are all around. Huge Trees beyond belief are to be descovered. At the heart of it you will find the San Juan Spruce- a twelve-foot-wide, at least 200 foot tall Sitka Spruce whose trunk barely tapers, drenched in moss, as it streches to the sky. The trunk quickly splits into a smaller 'branch' trunk wider than most very big Trees and a what... ten-foot-wide? perhaps? main Trunk which just keeps reaching for the sky, seemingly never getting narrower. Otherworldly mossy Maples of immense size are nearby. This is just one small area.
Further down a wild, unpaved 4x4 road- from what I hear, locals will gladly take you there for a little money- is a larger, though still small, protected area. In the direction of the winds, following Red Creek, it's about a kilometer long. Maybe you've heard of the Red Creek Fir. There are hiking trails, and one leads to her. Along the way, in incredible moss-drenched Forest, are three Western Red Cedars of near-Redwood size and great beauty. The Forest is as amazing as the Trees. These are the Three Sisters Cedars. When you reach the Red Creek Fir... well, she's beyond belief. Like a Coast Redwood, but otherworldly in a way only a Douglas Fir can be. Shaggy Forest all around. She's a full fourteen feet across and towers some 242 feet into the air to a broken top. Trees of her size often have broken tops. The biggest Sequoias and Douglas Firs usually do. She is some seven feet wide 144 feet in the air- wide enough to hide a small flying car!
Closer to town, to the North rather than the East, is Avatar Grove. Enter the deep Forest like you would never believe. Every stretch of Old Growth Forest has its own character, even in the photos that take me there, and Avatar Grove certainly does. The movie Avatar might pale in comparison.
Big Trees are all around- Trees like no other. Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce... but mostly Arborvitae- that is, Western Red Cedar. Both graceful and bizarre, the queen of this unique region is the Avatar Tree, or Canada's Gnarliest Tree. Tapering gracefully from a huge base to a fairly straight, still hugely wide upper Trunk, all feminine curves, with huge, gorgeous, truly Gnarly Burls- round knots of wood out of which new branches could grow if she blew down above them. Huge Burls, larger than a Grizzly Bear, the largest some twelve feet across!
Who knows what other wonders are here? And beautiful beaches with still other stretches of Forest nearby, and sometimes Whales in the water! For more, search Port Renfrew, Avatar Grove, San Juan Spruce and Red Creek Fir, and for more on these Old Growth Temperate Rainforests, including places to visit, view or download my book for free as a .txt file on my main website- it's Big Trees, Epic Life- Life in the Temperate Rainforest, and my main page is sites.google.com/site/davidannfreestories, or just google 'davidannfreestories', all one word. Spread my stories to whoever you want to, or post them on a website- I wish I had an easier way to give you my stories... but it's all for free on my main website! And don't forget to search and image-search Temperate Rainforest... there's a lot out there!
David S. Annderson
There's a place called Port Renfrew. They have forests- forests to make those in Avatar pale in comparison. Trees beyond belief- Trees like the Ents of Middle Earth have never seen. This is a very special place to me, though I have only gone in photos on the Internet. Perhaps you can go- it's in Canada, on Vancouver Island, near Vancouver. Once a logging town, tourism has so far protected many (most?) of the great Trees- including four designated Recreation Areas, at least three of which didn't exist a few years ago, and perhaps protected the great unprotected forest as well simply through Tourism. Hopefully the whole area will be protected soon in a Provincial Park- protecting the much larger area around here would create a World Heritage-worthy Park or Biosphere Reserve! This is one of the most remarkable of several places to enter into this other world.
In one direction is a forest place along the San Juan River. The protected area is small, and yet vast- once you are in it, this small area surrounds you. You can stop and rest, look around, hike, and explore in a forest world beyond our own. Immense, otherworldly mossy Bigleaf Maples are all around. Huge Trees beyond belief are to be descovered. At the heart of it you will find the San Juan Spruce- a twelve-foot-wide, at least 200 foot tall Sitka Spruce whose trunk barely tapers, drenched in moss, as it streches to the sky. The trunk quickly splits into a smaller 'branch' trunk wider than most very big Trees and a what... ten-foot-wide? perhaps? main Trunk which just keeps reaching for the sky, seemingly never getting narrower. Otherworldly mossy Maples of immense size are nearby. This is just one small area.
Further down a wild, unpaved 4x4 road- from what I hear, locals will gladly take you there for a little money- is a larger, though still small, protected area. In the direction of the winds, following Red Creek, it's about a kilometer long. Maybe you've heard of the Red Creek Fir. There are hiking trails, and one leads to her. Along the way, in incredible moss-drenched Forest, are three Western Red Cedars of near-Redwood size and great beauty. The Forest is as amazing as the Trees. These are the Three Sisters Cedars. When you reach the Red Creek Fir... well, she's beyond belief. Like a Coast Redwood, but otherworldly in a way only a Douglas Fir can be. Shaggy Forest all around. She's a full fourteen feet across and towers some 242 feet into the air to a broken top. Trees of her size often have broken tops. The biggest Sequoias and Douglas Firs usually do. She is some seven feet wide 144 feet in the air- wide enough to hide a small flying car!
Closer to town, to the North rather than the East, is Avatar Grove. Enter the deep Forest like you would never believe. Every stretch of Old Growth Forest has its own character, even in the photos that take me there, and Avatar Grove certainly does. The movie Avatar might pale in comparison.
Big Trees are all around- Trees like no other. Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce... but mostly Arborvitae- that is, Western Red Cedar. Both graceful and bizarre, the queen of this unique region is the Avatar Tree, or Canada's Gnarliest Tree. Tapering gracefully from a huge base to a fairly straight, still hugely wide upper Trunk, all feminine curves, with huge, gorgeous, truly Gnarly Burls- round knots of wood out of which new branches could grow if she blew down above them. Huge Burls, larger than a Grizzly Bear, the largest some twelve feet across!
Who knows what other wonders are here? And beautiful beaches with still other stretches of Forest nearby, and sometimes Whales in the water! For more, search Port Renfrew, Avatar Grove, San Juan Spruce and Red Creek Fir, and for more on these Old Growth Temperate Rainforests, including places to visit, view or download my book for free as a .txt file on my main website- it's Big Trees, Epic Life- Life in the Temperate Rainforest, and my main page is sites.google.com/site/davidannfreestories, or just google 'davidannfreestories', all one word. Spread my stories to whoever you want to, or post them on a website- I wish I had an easier way to give you my stories... but it's all for free on my main website! And don't forget to search and image-search Temperate Rainforest... there's a lot out there!
David S. Annderson
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Deep in time, in the unimaginably diverse Tropical Rainforests that covered the world, a world bursting with life in the wake of the extinction of the Dinosaurs, strange creatures were evolving almost beyond belief. One of these was Coryphodon.
Built like a hippo or hornless rhino with short, strong legs and a wide body, eating leaves and weighing perhaps half a ton at seven and a half feet long, she was one of the first giant mammals, though not the first, in an era where large mammals were emerging from an immense diversity of Rainforest creatures.
Giant snakes and especially crocodiles thrived.
According to Wikipedia, Coryphodon was slow, with little in the way of defenses since most known predators seem to have been significantly smaller.
Was it really?
I wonder.
Certainly there were crocodiles, and I would imagine some got fairly big, since elsewhere in the world lived the largest snake ever, Titanaboa, to the south in South America.
Looking at the skeleton pictured in Wikipedia, Coryphodon had short, fairly strong, fairly widely spaced legs, a solid, strong head and a strong neck- I imagine it would have been very hard for a crocodile to drag into the water.
Might she be adapted to resisting attack from crocodiles?
A fantastic animal from a fantastic era- the Paleocene/Eocene, all thirty million years of it, and just starting to blossom when Coryphodon came along. What a world we live in!
David S. Annderson
For more, visit my main page at sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just search "Davidannfreestories", all one word.
Built like a hippo or hornless rhino with short, strong legs and a wide body, eating leaves and weighing perhaps half a ton at seven and a half feet long, she was one of the first giant mammals, though not the first, in an era where large mammals were emerging from an immense diversity of Rainforest creatures.
Giant snakes and especially crocodiles thrived.
According to Wikipedia, Coryphodon was slow, with little in the way of defenses since most known predators seem to have been significantly smaller.
Was it really?
I wonder.
Certainly there were crocodiles, and I would imagine some got fairly big, since elsewhere in the world lived the largest snake ever, Titanaboa, to the south in South America.
Looking at the skeleton pictured in Wikipedia, Coryphodon had short, fairly strong, fairly widely spaced legs, a solid, strong head and a strong neck- I imagine it would have been very hard for a crocodile to drag into the water.
Might she be adapted to resisting attack from crocodiles?
A fantastic animal from a fantastic era- the Paleocene/Eocene, all thirty million years of it, and just starting to blossom when Coryphodon came along. What a world we live in!
David S. Annderson
For more, visit my main page at sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just search "Davidannfreestories", all one word.
Monday, February 10, 2014
a chess mystery: anyone have an answer?
Although I am very bad at it, I am interested in the game of chess- but great stories even more. Chess history is filled with great stories, interesting characters, drama, great creativity, and mystery. It is in search of an answer to a mystery that I am writing this entry. My favorite chess book is called The Best In Chess, edited by the great chess writer I. A. Horowitz, since it is filled with great chess-themed stories, including some of the best fiction, humor and suspense I have ever read.. One of them, a nonfiction story called Visiting Fireman, features a mysterious chessplayer at a 1953 Paris chess club.
His feat against a strong opponent seems comparable to a Bobby Fisher or Garry Kasparov.
I wonder if it could have been Botvinnik?? Mikhail Botvinnik was world chess champion, but his performance in two tournaments in '51 and '52 were dissappointing. He had spent '48 through '51 working on his Ph.D. in electronics. The Soviet chess championship, featuring most of the best in the world (they love chess in Russia!!!), the chess olympiad and the defense of his championship were coming up, and he would have been looking to improve his game. Knowing there was a great grandmaster in town, he must have sought out that chess club in Paris- apparently THE place to go as the legendary Cafe de la Regence was being renovated. He would have been in disguise so the Soviet authorities didn't know he was there. The tournament to determine the challenger was held in nearby Zurich, Switzerland, and Botvinnik may have been allowed to go to observe his future opponent. Or there may have been another occasion.
Is it possible Botvinnik could have been in Paris in 1953?
This seems the best explination for this true story.
Please comment if you have a clue.
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
His feat against a strong opponent seems comparable to a Bobby Fisher or Garry Kasparov.
I wonder if it could have been Botvinnik?? Mikhail Botvinnik was world chess champion, but his performance in two tournaments in '51 and '52 were dissappointing. He had spent '48 through '51 working on his Ph.D. in electronics. The Soviet chess championship, featuring most of the best in the world (they love chess in Russia!!!), the chess olympiad and the defense of his championship were coming up, and he would have been looking to improve his game. Knowing there was a great grandmaster in town, he must have sought out that chess club in Paris- apparently THE place to go as the legendary Cafe de la Regence was being renovated. He would have been in disguise so the Soviet authorities didn't know he was there. The tournament to determine the challenger was held in nearby Zurich, Switzerland, and Botvinnik may have been allowed to go to observe his future opponent. Or there may have been another occasion.
Is it possible Botvinnik could have been in Paris in 1953?
This seems the best explination for this true story.
Please comment if you have a clue.
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Awww, cute... a bear that's gonna eat me!
Just an observation, but isn't it odd that bears can be so cute and yet they can eat you? Though from what I hear, they prefer to just chase us up a tree!
Not that it would be so bad to be eaten, if I were eaten by someone nice... not a bad way to go- so I would still take a chance to see a cute, man-eating bear!
It would be the experience of a lifetime!
And if I was yummy, oh well- they're just puppy-dogs as big as a car, right?
As long as YOU don't get eaten!
just a few thoughts.
David S. Annderson
For more from me, go to my main website at sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just google "davidannfreestories", all one word.
Have fun!
Just an observation, but isn't it odd that bears can be so cute and yet they can eat you? Though from what I hear, they prefer to just chase us up a tree!
Not that it would be so bad to be eaten, if I were eaten by someone nice... not a bad way to go- so I would still take a chance to see a cute, man-eating bear!
It would be the experience of a lifetime!
And if I was yummy, oh well- they're just puppy-dogs as big as a car, right?
As long as YOU don't get eaten!
just a few thoughts.
David S. Annderson
For more from me, go to my main website at sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just google "davidannfreestories", all one word.
Have fun!
Friday, January 31, 2014
You walk through a forest. Life surrounds you. You are immersed in it.
Huge Trees are all around. Trees wider than a doorway across the trunk, tall as ten one-story houses. Trees tall as 20 houses that a family of bears can hide behind. Trees a small cabin can hide behind.
The Trees talk to each other, through the roots and through the air by smell, as they create the forest out of thin air, dirt, water and sunshine. Millions upon millions of tiny animals far smaller than ants care for the soil, providing for the Trees. Green is everywhere, on the ground and on the mossy bark of the Trees.
The forest canopy is lush, beautifully ragged and goes on, seemingly forever.
And you can visit.
For real!
For these are our real Forests. And the Trees really do send smell-messages to each other, and the tiny soil animals- Nematodes, 'Water Bears', Rotifers- really exist.
Welcome to the Old-Growth Temperate Rainforest.
Welcome to the real world- the REAL real world.
Come see how much of this is all around us, on a smaller scale, right in our own backyards.
See the forests we have saved, and how we are doing more every year.
See what life is REALLY like.
For all of this and more, read Big Trees, Epic Life: Life in the Temperate Rainforest, free to view or download as a text (txt) file on my website, sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just google "davidannfreestories', all one word.
And search 'Temperate Rainforests' for more on the Internet- especially pictures.
Gorgeous pictures!
Have fun!
David S. Annderson
Huge Trees are all around. Trees wider than a doorway across the trunk, tall as ten one-story houses. Trees tall as 20 houses that a family of bears can hide behind. Trees a small cabin can hide behind.
The Trees talk to each other, through the roots and through the air by smell, as they create the forest out of thin air, dirt, water and sunshine. Millions upon millions of tiny animals far smaller than ants care for the soil, providing for the Trees. Green is everywhere, on the ground and on the mossy bark of the Trees.
The forest canopy is lush, beautifully ragged and goes on, seemingly forever.
And you can visit.
For real!
For these are our real Forests. And the Trees really do send smell-messages to each other, and the tiny soil animals- Nematodes, 'Water Bears', Rotifers- really exist.
Welcome to the Old-Growth Temperate Rainforest.
Welcome to the real world- the REAL real world.
Come see how much of this is all around us, on a smaller scale, right in our own backyards.
See the forests we have saved, and how we are doing more every year.
See what life is REALLY like.
For all of this and more, read Big Trees, Epic Life: Life in the Temperate Rainforest, free to view or download as a text (txt) file on my website, sites.google.com/sites/davidannfreestories, or just google "davidannfreestories', all one word.
And search 'Temperate Rainforests' for more on the Internet- especially pictures.
Gorgeous pictures!
Have fun!
David S. Annderson
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