Old Spirit

Artwork ID # 2306-31626-33

Homage Gary Braasch

" Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth...
We are a grove, companions spared to be on earth at the same time.
The trees - though not our kind - are kin, elder relatives standing to greet us." - Kim Stafford, from Tree of All Trees

These base trunks of ancient red cedars support trees which are upward of a thousand years old. The forest giants grow in the Ohanapecosh River Valley and are isolated from fire by growing on an island where they receive abundant groundwater.

WashingtonMount Rainier National ParkCascade Rangeoldgrowth forestOhanapecosh RiverGrove of the PatriarchsWestern Red CedarTaidnapam TribeUpper Cowlitz Tribeground sorrel

From Wilderness Series Archive - "An ARCHIVE of every WILDERNESS SERIES image"