The Library · Humboldt State University – Humboldt Room Photograph Collections Today marks the 160th anniversary of a seminal, but largely forgotten moment in the history of the conservation movement. 160 years ago a giant sequoia in California was cut down, becoming the inspiration for the national park system On Monday, 27 June,…
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The spirits of the trees
Tree worship has played an important part in the religious history of the European Aryan race. Nothing more natural, since at the dawn of history Europe was covered with an immense primeval forest, where the scattered clearings must have looked like islets in an ocean of green. Until the first century BC, the Ercinia…