History comes back to haunt. Just watched Boys in the Boat; this writer sat 30 years later in Joe Ranz 7-seat in the 2-Boat as a UW Senior, the photo is from the 2-Boat as a Junior 5-seat. 
All now a half Century ago. Remember 1st hearing the movie’s story standing on a cold boathouse floor looking up at the Husky Clipper, thinking “why are they talking about ancient history.” (Like most young I’ve taught since, “history” is anything before they were born.) And like Joe, I was a rural country boy; 1st years at Forest Glade Elementary (Snohomish) on the site of an Indigenous biodiverse agricultural clearing (why my grandparents called it a “glade.”) Gone now, history. Wondering why the people of the State of Washington plant single species plantations for others to profit, when we need the State and Federal owned lands, over 50% of all the State, to be biodiverse? The Forest Popsicle’s URL below key point is our planting 2.1 million acres per year, the vast majority with Douglas Fir. Washington State is becoming a monoculture and we have only ourselves to blame. Ancient history: Washington, Oregon, and BC Federal and provincial/state’ tree farms were just starting; today’s status of native plants and animals wasn’t always like it is today.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forbidden-popsicles-pop-washington-nursery-232422124.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_in_the_Boat
The boat in the picture (called a “shell”) is made of:
Western Red Cedar
Alaskan Yellow Cedar
Both Yellow and Red Cedar
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