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How have we reached the point where the tropical savannas and grasslands of the world are viewed as suitable for wholesale “restoration” as forests? ....
Letters to the Editor: Plant redwoods to honor COVID-19 victims San Francisco Chronicle FacebookTwitterEmail Redwood trees line the trail in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek (Santa Cruz County) in 2017.Tony Avelar / Special to The Chronicle 2017 To honor the nearly 35,000 Californians who have died from COVID-19, a number that will sadly continue to increase, I propose the state of California plant and name one coast redwood tree for each person lost. Redwood trees can live for hundreds of years, making them ideal for memorializing our loved ones. Furthermore, coast redwoods capture more carbon dioxide than any other tree on Earth, so we should be planting as many as possible. ....
Illustration by local artist Caitlin Fowler, based on “A Perfect Stranger,” winner of this year’s Flash Fiction contest. Once again, our readers are the writers in the annual contest of narrative brevity judged by a team of story lovers: Booklegger owners Jennifer McFadden and Nancy Short, retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, Eureka Poet Laureate and College of the Redwoods professor David Holper, and myself. The influence of the pandemic is visible here and there in the haul of entries, including our winner. But isolation and a storm of real-life drama hasn’t stifled entrants’ imaginations. In 99 words or fewer, they’re wrestling with heartbreak, parenthood, jealousy, magic, the pitfalls of time travel and how to tell a story. ....