Pictures can make a monumental difference

About 100 million images will be posted on Instagram today, so it may not seem like one image can make a difference. But last week 100 images did.

Land Almost Lost: Help save these national monuments

I’ll never forget the first time I experienced the feeling of nature lost. Oddly, I was on a hike on a trail that’s one of the more beautiful in the Central Cascades of Washington state.

For a couple of miles, I wandered through forest, catching occasional glimpses of the waterfall that was my destination. And then I came across a giant Western red cedar stump. It was at least three times the diameter of the biggest living trees I had seen along my way.