Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Witness to Clearcuts on the Carolina Coast

Dogwood Alliance has a new video clip of a recent walk through a giant clearcut harvested for paper production on the coast of North Carolina, USA. Organizer Eva Hernandez writes on their blog,

We got a tip from a local land trust that there were some fresh clearcuts nearby, so Ruth and I went to check them out and document them. The clearcuts were massive, and a few minutes away is the Holly Shelter Game Lands which “exhibits excellent examples of low pocosin, wiregrass uplands, and bald cypress swamps.”
Check it out:

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