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Big Trees, Masks And Singing, Capturing Holiday Scents, Unseen Body. Dec 17, 2021, Part 2

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The Threats to Big Trees

Trees are one of the few things, the few living things, that live so much longer than we do. People all round the world have found this connection with big, old trees. When i've been to redwood forests and you put your hand on a redwood that you know that thousands of people over maybe a thousand years a seen and touched - it's just a different time scale than us cotapuny humans are used to. If we go to the forest and we go next year, the tree may still be there and appearing exactly the same. But really, there is change. And if we watch enough trees, tens of thousands of trees, over long enough periods

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