Now and again, it is pondered here if some sites are still remembered, still visited by Indigenous People, who still use these sites for Ceremony, who mourn the loss of every piece of the Sacred Landscape...
(All Photos by Cora)
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I was just thinking: Cutting down the Big Trees back in the Contact Period was like ripping down the roof of a Cathedral and this is a further outrage, putting a Solar farm inside the ruins of a big church - and putting a fence around it...
Depressing story, but all too common in our society. I've not followed the background of this story, but was no serious attempt made to preserve this sacred landscape?
"Culturally Significant areas" were enclosed with those yellow "flags." The entire viewscape is an important part of the sacred landscape that was totally ignored. Cora Pierce is putting together a Power Point program about the whole ordeal, offered to send me a copy...
I see similar damage wherever a forestry logging operation has been through. I believe the highest priority is to educate the forestry community - and have long thought this was a job for NEARA as an organization that has a relatively large membership.
Development takes place all the time and it makes sense to me that developers be educated enough to do what they can to preserve settings that they are working in. There was no need to destroy the features Tim showed us. So I do not want to blame 'development' per se but want to educate the developers. But first educate the foresters!
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