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Laiken Jordahl, the borderlands campaign manager for the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, described the wall and the policy behind it as “delusional,” for reasons both practical and environmental.

By all accounts, a rainforest shouldn’t be scattered in moist valley bottoms stretching from the Cariboo Mountains east of Prince George to the Rocky Mountains close to the Alberta border. Other temperate rainforests, far from the sea, are only found in two other places in the world, in Russia’s far east and southern Siberia.

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“And it will take a really short period of time to eliminate this beautiful mature forest. It takes us days to knock it down, push the stuff we don’t want into a huge pile, burn the pile and then that’s the end of this stand … These old-growth forests are not renewable. They’re not coming back after you log them.”

Fences in earlier years were built with any material at hand, which can be seen in the stone corral along Highway 108, west of Jamestown, on the Rosasco Ranch. This stone fenced corral, built with volcanic rocks from Table Mountain in the mid 1800s is still usable today.

More change is coming. Separate associations that ran the two cemeteries are merging to send a message of unity and to strengthen their ability to care for the space.

A state police trooper, monitoring traffic on Mt. Pleasant Street about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, pursued the suspect's red Chrysler, after it stopped at the stop sign at Nauset and Mt. Pleasant streets and then accelerated at a high rate of speed, court records say.

“When you know something about the organisms that live in these forests, particularly the mosses and especially the lichens, you feel like you’re Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels,” Goward says.

For the most part, she said, residents knew those projects were coming. Not so with the 176-mile power line project, slated to cut 90 feet off the back of her property. 

Opposite the carillon, across an expansive open space, is a memorial to those killed in the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., Although the memorial is on the U.S. side of the border, it acknowledges the role Canadians played on that awful day — displaying exemplary humanity and friendship, when the town of Gander took in American travelers turned back by the event.

Earlier Friday, Mexico’s ambassador to Guatemala said his country intended to enforce what he called a policy of orderly entry in the face of the thousands trying to cross.

In its natural form, Kanaele is precious in part because so many of its lifeforms are miniaturized. The ground is both waterlogged, from the 160 inches of rain it receives each year, and unusually acidic, conditions that stunt the growth of the various species of flora that make their home there. Many of the species that grow in these conditions exist in no other habitat in Hawaiʻi, or any other bogs around the world, for that matter. Healthy Kanaele now swarms with low-lying species, such as native grasses, sedges, mosses, and lichens, as well as dwarfed trees such as the ʻōlapa, a flowering ginseng, and the modest green shrub hame and the Pele lobeliad. A refuge for the lobeliad is particularly welcome. Of the 126 species of lobeliads native to Hawaiʻi, half are endangered and as many as 20 may be extinct, according to Keola Magazine. The critically imperiled Viola helenae, or Wahiawa stream violet, has also returned to Kanaele. These bog-based violets can grow up to 26 feet tall, and only thrive in two known wild populations.