Wow, I'd love to go to the Pacific Northwest one day. It seems a lot like where I grew up, well the coast anyway.
I was talking to a woman last week who had been clearing all the bark around her trees (pretty much a small forest) so she can encourage grass there. I was gobsmacked -;that's not how these forests are meant to work. All the life in that fallen matter, gone. All the bugs and small mammals and rotting wood and fungi. People don't understand.
Don't get me started!