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The following is a piece of journalism about deforestation and death in Canada’s boreal forests. I encourage everyone to read and learn about , not to mention travel to, the boreal areas. I was in the boreal forests around Ladozhkoye ozero and Petrozavodsk in the summer of 2006, and felt myself in a dream of otherworldly, mythological proportions.

These amazing areas are going to be gone very very soon, as extensive logging and climate change take their toll. I witnessed effects of climate change on the amazingly precarious, primordial lifeforms first hand in 2006. Together with logging and mining, these breathtaking forests and expanses, which act as the lungs of our world, won’t survive but a few more years.

If you want to meet Leshii, Baba Yaga, trolls and elves and all manner of old beings (including more mosquitoes and no see ums per square inch than anywhere else on earth), you don’t really have much time.

Do read.

http://www.sacbee.com/static/live/news/projects/denial/c2_1.html