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Big Blue Marble

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22. I think often of this song of my youth.

Reply to MrWowWow (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 25, 2024, 01:33 PM

Jul 2024

How ominous it sounded then. How prescient it was. How expressive it is now
in defining the grief we feel at the loss the very nature that sustains us.

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Reduced to ash: "Jasper (National Park - next door to Banff) was Alberta's piece of heaven on earth, known for its [View all] applegrove Jul 2024 OP

;-( elleng Jul 2024 #1

Oh gawd... Sky Jewels Jul 2024 #2

So devastating samplegirl Jul 2024 #3

I'm hoping it's not as bad as the news is saying it is MissB Jul 2024 #4

Whose Garden Was This? MrWowWow Jul 2024 #5

Too sad. applegrove Jul 2024 #6

I think often of this song of my youth. Big Blue Marble Jul 2024 #22

So sad Roy Rolling Jul 2024 #7

There are some pinecones from certain fir trees applegrove Jul 2024 #13

The question is will these areas reforest as they always have. Big Blue Marble Jul 2024 #23

So sad. What have we done. applegrove Jul 2024 #24

"...in 50 years the ecology will be quite different." CrispyQ Jul 2024 #27

Remember the Canadian wildfires from last year moniss Jul 2024 #8

Here is the map as of 7/23 moniss Jul 2024 #9

I was there wayyyyyyyyyy back in the early 70's it was absolutely breathtaking...... a kennedy Jul 2024 #10

Late 60s for me DavidDvorkin Jul 2024 #15

Free Campground wanderer54 Jul 2024 #31

Aw, damn. GoCubsGo Jul 2024 #11

That's horrible Emile Jul 2024 #12

Back in the 80s, Yellowstone was "reduced to ash", RazorbackExpat Jul 2024 #14

well, the news this morning looks even more bleak. MissB Jul 2024 #16

. applegrove Jul 2024 #18

Camped there as a child back in the 70's senseandsensibility Jul 2024 #17

Oh nooo. Mom and I moonscape Jul 2024 #19

I'm devastated... Spazito Jul 2024 #20

Terrifying. applegrove Jul 2024 #25

So sorry. republianmushroom Jul 2024 #21

Ohh.. Cha Jul 2024 #26

I've always wanted to go to that part of Canada Bayard Jul 2024 #28

See 29 AKwannabe Jul 2024 #30

Was there last summer. AKwannabe Jul 2024 #29