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Balsam Fir

“A forest’s intelligence emerges from many kinds of interlinked clusters of thought. Nerves and brains are one part, but only one, of the forest’s mind.” Bird song in the boreal forest in summer. Recorded next to the balsam fir:

https://davidhaskell.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/balsam-fir-ambient.mp3

 

To enlarge photographs and scroll through a slideshow, click on any of the tiled images below.

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steaming-pulverized-wood-thunder-bay
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