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...staged a comeback, however small, I watched again. I found nine robins and one pair of bluebirds, a total increase of about two or three. I saw six juncos, an increase of two or three, and seven white-crowned sparrows, an increase of five or six. There were ten pine siskins-down from 18 last year. I say those great conservationists-the U.S. Department of Agriculture and their offshoot, the Forest Service-have done their job well, if "conserving" means wiping out the birds...
...gimmick is good enough. Alas, the characters are solid pine and the plot is upholstered with historical minutiae that quickly become tedious. Moreover, the book is illustrated with old photographs, prints and sketches supposedly drawn by the hero. Altogether a painfully literal effort, except for those who take joy in minute historical coincidence. Like the fact that New York had a ball team way back then called the Metropolitans. But those Mets had pitching problems...
...expansion of American suburbs is decreasing drastically the amount of breathing space left to the earth. Since green plants provide a lot of the oxygen we breathe, that is important for both the plants and us. Los Angeles smog has reportedly killed over a million of the Ponderosa pine in the hills outside the city. That destroys both watershed and forest...
...born in the village hidden deep in the valley among the pine trees? He was also married and buried there...
Present plans call for selling diseased ponderosas to lumber companies and replacing them with nearly 70,000 giant Sequoia and sugar pine trees, which are thought to be more resistant to smog. Meantime, the smog rolls on, doubtless affecting the forest in other ways that are not yet known...