Three years on the mountain revealing the signs of former inhabitation. Massed piles of granite, clusters of garden escapee rose, starved and budless orchard apple. Traces of mixed land use replaced by single species plantation.
A simplified terrain that still supports a range of flora and fauna, though each round of logging and replanting further depletes its threatened ecosystem.
Pushing us all to the limits of our tolerance.
I flip an upsided dor beetle (Anoplotrupes stercorosus) and watch it scurry away into fallen, rotten wood.