A Saturday afternoon in Florissant at the Fossil Beds National Monument
What happened to the
Redwood Trees?
The redwood tree stumps seemed to me to have a lot to say
about the earth and what has happened.
The story of the redwood tree stump is thirty-four thousand plus years
old. When this tree talks, it would tell
you how it watched itself and the other redwoods get burned down to stumps by
the volcano that erupted 16 miles away.
They would also tell us about the different types of vegetation there
was that is not there now. They would
discuss the different animals that roamed the area that are not there now and
especially the dinosaurs. They would say
how the climate has changed drastically in the last thousands of years and how they
now have more fear of being burned down because of the wildfires that happen
from the careless humans that inhibit the area.
But then, they also see so many good things that surround them. They have conversations with the animals and
the insects that fly around them. They
even saw people who care about their actions in the forest where they are. The wolves howl to bring them back to
Colorado, and the aspen trees agree. As
I looked around at the surrounding trees in the area, they thank the park for thinning
the forest down so that they may be saved if a wildfire comes through. The fossils tell their age by what is inside
the shale. They tell their own
story. Lake Florissant used to cover all
of that area. It was a lake that would
not be used for swimming. It was told to
us to be scuzzy and not used for drinking, bathing or anything else. There's no trace of that lake there now.
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