BLOOD SPORT: day3: SILENCE of the LAND

Although I don't hunt just for the game....9 hours of hiking...no deer or deer sign. I know this is 'TREE HUGGERISH" but things are changing. More dead pines & quakies. More EROSION. More fires & hard Summer micro-bursts. We have one area that looks like "pick up sticks". Another area..healthy pines blown over all over the place because when loggers came in they left an occasional single tree but with group protection during big winds they fall. I have surveyed for archaeology thousands of acres of dead sagebrush & pinion pine. Junipers the hardiest tree of all ...splitting down the middle. Drought> less sap> bug invasion> collapse