Category: Landforms
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Steps From Wet Ankles
Seasons cycle, and storms come. Trees rooted in soil that is dark muck between loose stones over bedrock carrying seeping groundwater to soil a bit lower, to true freshwater deciduous swamp forest — trees still on the verge of land, spongy land — don’t all get to stay fully upright their whole lives. As seen…
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Another Watershed
Before biking to a Pow Wow, looking at the route google maps suggested, I recognized the twisty look of what is called an unimproved road around here for the last leg of the route. Loaded down with tent and panniers, on the day I opted not to add a few kilometres to go via a…
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Swamp Life
The soil mostly isn’t very firm. And it’s an easy place for a forest to grow, with no shortage of water. For each tree, though? Some get to live out a full life upright, but there’s a lot of, it depends.
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Meeting Place
Sky and soil, marsh and bluff, tree and snow, bedrock and pressure, breeze and boughs. Glacier and ocean, even, the geologists say, as the last ice age was well on it way to gone and the land had yet to rebound from the weight of glacier much. Human mind and hush.