Lush, Green Forests Of My Youth Are Gone
2018 CE • Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Each year the forests covering the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains turn more brown, more broken. Dead trees are often in the same quantity as live ones. The lush, green forests of my youth are gone forever.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
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