Ah! I saw something very distressing today. Lapland is known for it's forest - and consequently like Canada, they are also known for their lumber and other tradeable, marketable tree based products.
So, I guess what I saw today is death row for trees, this area stretches out for kilometers and kilometers, and it looks just like this the whole way. In the middle of the piles of trees (which are huge by the way, probably at least 20 feet) are train tracks, these trees are waiting for the train that will take them to Helsinki, to the pulp factory and will turn them into paper.
See these little matchsticks - they are HUGE trees, they just look tiny cause there are so many of them. This whole area smells like sawdust and you can see stacks of trees, birch, pine and cedar seem to be the most common (that I could identify anyway).
so please, conserve paper! or the reindeers will have no forests to play in and we will have no air to breathe.
So, I guess what I saw today is death row for trees, this area stretches out for kilometers and kilometers, and it looks just like this the whole way. In the middle of the piles of trees (which are huge by the way, probably at least 20 feet) are train tracks, these trees are waiting for the train that will take them to Helsinki, to the pulp factory and will turn them into paper.
See these little matchsticks - they are HUGE trees, they just look tiny cause there are so many of them. This whole area smells like sawdust and you can see stacks of trees, birch, pine and cedar seem to be the most common (that I could identify anyway).
so please, conserve paper! or the reindeers will have no forests to play in and we will have no air to breathe.
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