Campsite over a glacier on a high alpine ridge, Wrangell-St. Elias NP, Alaska.

Sunset over the Chugach mountain range, Wrangell_St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Yellow Paintbrush by a stream, Wrangell-St Elias National Park, Alaska.

Hole in the Wall, with wildflowers blooming, and 5 of the 7 sisters, near Skolai Pass, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Fireweed dominates the landscape, with a view south over the Bremner Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias NP, AK.

Scene from Hole in the Wall, at sunset, near Skolai Pass, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Another view of Hole in the Wall, Skolai Pass, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Sunset over the Chitina River,Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Lupine, nootka and arctic lupines, bloom in British Columbia, Canada.

Nootka Lupine, as viewed from directly above, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Dwarf fireweed skirts Iceberg Lake, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Lupine blooms by a large granite outcrop, Chugach Mountains, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Fall leaves, Cloudland Canyon State Park, North Georgia mountains.

Little Tennessee River, fall colors, North Carolina mountains.

Sunrise, sun's rays, Great Smoky Mountains Natoinal Park, Tennessee.

Black and white photograph of sunrise, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee.

Fireweed blooms, tundra grasses and blue sky, Steamboat Hills, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

Fall colors, Little Tennessee River, North Carolina mountains.

Sunset over Blood Mountain, Appalachian Trail, North Georgia Mountains.

Boreal forest in mist and snow, fall colors, Yukon Territories, Canada.

Boreal forest, mist and snow and fall colors, Yukon Territories, Canada.

Fungi grows on a decaying hardwood in a forest on Blood Mountain, in the Southern Appalachian mountains.

Rhododendron bloom on Tray Mountain, Appalachian Trail, North Georgia mountains.

Eastern hemlock in a hardwood forest, Southern Appalachian Forest, North Georgia.

Cloudland Canyon State Park, Upper Falls, Waterfalls, North Georgia

Cloudland Canyon State Park, lower falls, waterfall, North Georgia.

Yellow Paintbrush, (Castilleja unalascensis), Wrangell-St. Elias NP, Alaska.

Fall colors, Athabasca River, Jasper NP, Canada.

"We have cut a path of destruction, ignored the spreading deserts, disregarded the disappearing animals, the fouled air and water, the warming planet. We have destroyed most of the earth's natural cover and we pretend we can live without it." -- Derrick Jensen, "Strangely Like War -- The Global Assault on Forests".

Derrick's words ring so true, his stark commentary offering a simple look at the reality of our culture, racing along at an ever-increasing velocity. In doing so, we've constructed this idea of "the environment", as if there exists something else. Hopefully mankind will soon come back to the understanding that there is indeed no demarcation, no delineation or separation between ourselves and our world. Our culture's acceptance and perpetuation of the myth that we are separate from our environment is vital to the success of the industry that destroys this environment (thereby simultaneously destroying ourselves). In order to change this, we have to accept that we're intrinsically a part of the world around us, that we are not separate from the forests, the deserts, the mountains, the bear, the eagles and the moose. To continue to harm, to pillage and plunder, to destroy our self is insanity.

So what can we do to help protect the forests of Southern Appalachia, the mountains of Alaska, the arctic tundra and the high deserts? How do we help to preserve the bison and the caribou, the bear, the eagle and the salmon? We HAVE to change our view of the world, of what we value and how we value it. Again, I'll defer to Derrick Jensen's words, in his book "Srangely Like War -- A Global Assualt of Forests". I can't recommend this book highly enough.

"We can spend time in forests. We can ask the trees - and forests - what they want. Walk among ancient ones, trees sometimes two thousand years old. Put your hands on their bark, on their skin. Taste the difference in the air. Smell it. Reflect on the beauty of what's still there, and on what has been lost -- on what's been taken from us."

The images above are taken from a variety of places I've travelled and photographed. Mostly, from Alaska, but also from the Southern Appalachian Mountains, in the forests of north Georgia, Western Carolina and Tennessee. I'll also soon be updating this site with images from the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, Grand-Staircase-Escalanté National Monument, Utah. These photographs are a tiny representation of the natural world. To really experience the world, we need to be in it, to allow ourselves the time to get to know the planet, the mountains, the forest and the desert. The ecosystems we're all a part of are able to reward us far more than many of us realize. This exchange is a 2 way system, and I firmly believe those same systems benefit when we take the time to appreciate and experience them.

Thank you -- Carl Donohue, Nov, 2004.

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