THE WORLD'S 2ND BIGGEST TREE CAPTURED IN ONE SPECTACULAR IMAGE

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21. My family was in the lumber industry. Great grandfather was killed when

looking for timber limits in British Columbia. The timber limits he owned sad idle for 25 years as his family was in Ontario: too far away to manage business till his kids were grown. Some of the timber limits he owned were on Vancouver Island. So who knows...he may have saved the old growth forest by buying it and then dying in an accident. I feel guilty sometimes when I look at clear cut forests but most of what they were into was newsprint, hydro power. So I don't feel so guilty about the end product so much. My dad had a summer job canoeing in rivers in quebec looking for timber. The french canadian crew figured out he had the gift of cooking skills and he ended up doing all the cooking for the camp instead of surveying. My grandfather's first cousin took his knowledge of running double telephone lines into winter lumber camps to keep emergency services available to lumber crews (lumbering was and still is dangerous) to the Canadian war effort in WWI and was lauded for that. Canadians could better triangulate as their communications didn't fail. Nothing great about being more efficient in a war unless you are in the middle of one. Good and bad in just about everything. Any how. Nobody in the lumber business anymore. Still I don't like seeing clear cut forests. Or hearing of old growth forests cut down.