@loribmt, @joyces, @ess77 and all who love trees. I'm a rampant tree hugger. My entire career as a professional artist focused on the environment, climate change and the destruction and ultimate disappearance of pristine wilderness.
In 2004, when the ranchers and all other citizens in Big Horn Country, Alberta, contacted me to literally beg for my peers and I, as artists, to help them to somehow influence the government to stop the clearcutting practice in their area, I organized a group of 26 artists and we mounted a huge art exhibition dealing with the clearcut issues in their part of paradise. The show was held at the Red Deer Art Gallery and Museum in the centre of the Big Horn Country. 3500 people, a huge number, attended the exhibition during the three weeks it was up. I'm attaching an image of one of my three paintings juried into the show. The painting is 4' x 4', acrylic on canvas, entitled "Clearcut/The Rape of a Mountain".
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Well, folks, I tried to attach the image, but I've failed (again). I'll try again.