Some forests are not planted to be logged. Here, for example, is a birch forest in Iceland, planted a century ago, with the express purpose of creating a country through poetry and art. When romance is stripped from the picture, the planting of trees is art. Industrial logging and forests are not synonymous.

It’s not a park, either. It’s a forest.

Icelandic National Forest at 4:30 pm, April 2, 2013

Canada is now more than a century behind.