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Makonnen lives in Portland now and loves the outdoors.
A checkerboard pattern, seen here in Siuslaw, Oregon, is caused by clearcutting. This process involves a rotating operation where every 40-60 years, all trees in a certain area are cut down, and new trees are planted in their place immediately after. Clearcutting has a major environmental impact on a forest, the most immediate being habitat loss for the trees and species that live there. Furthermore, the deficit of roots also causes erosion of the soil, and the loss of the forest canopy enables light from the sun to dry out bodies of water, making it impossible for certain species of fish and amphibians to survive.
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Stairs of Basilica S. Maria Maggiore, by the architect Carlo Rainaldi, 1675, in Rome, Italy.
I’m heading home from Florida today and excited that I’ll have the window seat. Because many cities in the state contain master-planned communities, often built on top of waterways in the latter half of the twentieth century, there are a number of intricate designs that are visible from the Overview perspective. Here is one particular development in Cape Coral, a city with a population of 165,831 people.
This image is taken from the ‘Where We Live’ section of “Overview.” Learn more about the book here: http://amzn.to/2hNxMpr
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