COSTA RICAN TIMES
Arriving at Cedar Grove during a break in the storms on the day my father died for a much-needed meditation along cascading Big Chico Creek, I was met by a scene of devastation. In the heart of Chico’s lifeline, Bidwell Park, a stand of oaks had been massacred—in back of the Nature Center no less!
A young mother sat on the hood of her car staring out over the stumps and sections of chainsawed limbs while her toddler tested his sea legs in front of her. When I asked her what happened here, she was disinterested and strangely detached: “I should know,” she feebly replied, “I intern at the Nature Center, and someone told me. But I don’t remember.”
As Richie Bamlet, Urban Forest Manager for the
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