One mid-winter day a couple of years after we had moved to the Robson Valley and everything was covered with snow, I was looking through some slides I had taken the previous summer, and I was shocked to see just how lush, green, and jungle-like everything was. It is something you generally aren’t aware of, when it is there all around you, but this morning during my walk around the pond, I happened to look across at the neighbor’s property, and noticed the thick, tangled, wall of green that was there.
In years past I had cleared a walking path through that jungle of growth. It was terribly hard to maintain that trail because of the thick vibrant growth that was always encroaching and the many big branches and trees that periodically fell across the trail. Eventually, I just gave up on the trail, because it became just too much work.
We do live in an Interior Temperate Rain Forest, even though lately it has been very dry. Yesterday’s heavy rain seems to have invigorated all of the green that surrounds us, and that is probably what made me notice the “jungle” beside us. If one had to walk through it, a machete would be helpful to aid your fight through the tangle, otherwise your bushwhacking would be very tedious and frustrating.
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