Our forests...time lapse in Goggle Earth

I have observed this process when I lived in Western Montana. In 1950 before I arrived there, my small town boasted the largest pine mill in the world. I learned that from a popular local post card you could by in the drugstore. That mill is now gone after it ran out of resource (public lands no less). At first, a clear cut was a curiosity, but I never imagined this would only be the beginning of an insidious large scale rape. Those time lapses from the video I actually watched over a 45 year period. You would think that something taking that long might be something you wouldn't notice, and many people in the community didn't. Some denied it was happening, but for me, that 45 year experience was far more terrifying than any sequence in that video. I had to watch powerless with horror and anguish the entire time. They aren't finished yet either. They are still logging, but mostly feeding smaller mills in the area. But it is still going on.
 

This is just I thought that bounces around in my head on occasion. So please take it for what it is, a cogitation. Generally we humans seem to believe we are above nature. We do our best to control it and in the process we destroy it. Everything that exist in nature has a purpose. It all functions in a system that takes care of itself. We are an integral part of that system. We are in it, we are part of it not above it. It seems that our part, our nature if you will is to exploit everything we come in contact with and in that process destroy anything and everything that gets in the way of our quest for dominance over everything. In short maybe destruction is our function in the nature of things on this planet? Again just contemplation.
 
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