He loved nature.  He received a bachelors of arts degree and went to Lancaster Art College.  He made trees out of limbs because he wanted to express the beauty of nature in art using natural materials.  He also made a lot of ice sculptures.  He is a photographer and he used it to take photographs of his art.  He has made a film called Rivers and Tides.  This is about him as a person and his art.

He only uses nature as a tool.  He says he sees death a lot and used it in his art.  He saw death as an important part of life.  He worked from age 13 on a farm.  He says farming is a very sculptural activity.

Our goal is to raise ten thousand dollars.  Although we still don’t know how much money we made, we will donate all of it to the National Wildlife Federation.  We are still open for donation.  If you want to make a donation please either drop by our school or send a check made out to the National Wildlife Federation at

The Bellwether School

186 South Brownell Road

Williston, Vermont05495

Lori Lustberg, Jean Reinsbourough, and Kay Poirer were our parent volunteers who we couldn’t have done this without their help.  Our teacher is Garin Samuelsen.  The students who participated in this important walk were Aran, Kai, Jordan, Charlie, Peter, Liam, Henry, and Keenan

Clear cutting

This paper is about clear cutting, which is a form of logging that is devastating to the environment. The idea of clear cutting is to cut down a lot of trees in mass production, and then move on to another spot. There are pros and cons to this practice. From what I have researched my opinion on clear cutting is it’s horrible for the environment.

Clear cutting helps replenish the environment. By planting sun loving trees on one’s property and cutting most of them down so new trees can grow starts the process over again, plus it provides jobs for our country, and we could use that about now. Clear cutting provides jobs for people in our country and other countries. Clear cutting requires jobs such as, loggers, truck drivers, and the people who handle the lumber after the clear cutting is done. We are using more wood than ever, but we are cutting down fewer trees than before. The process turns the bark of the log into mulch, and the round part of the log is cut off and goes to the paper mill. Processors leave a rectangle that gets cut into different sized planks. By cutting down many trees in a forest it opens up space for other trees to grow. In a forest trees compete for sunlight, so if you cut down a tree something will grow in its place. Those are facts from the pro-side of the argument. Others disagree that clear cutting replenishes anything.

Clear cutting is devastating to the environment. Cutting down a lot of trees in one place weakens the soil from lack of roots. By cutting down a tree its roots die. The roots hold the ground together and absorb the water. If there are less trees to hold the ground together, then there will be mass flooding and erosion. Erosion destroys the land the trees once lived on. Every day we destroy natural history by cutting down trees over 100 years old. Rainforests once covered 7 million square miles, now there’s less than half because of clear cutting and other logging practices.

As the human population grows, so does the use of trees. My opinion on clear cutting is that it puts a little money in our pockets, but it destroys the environment. Clear cutting may provide money, but by cutting down most of the strong trees it leaves the weaker trees and thus destroys a forest. Companies that clear cut destroy animals’ homes. Clear cutting causes the soil to become unstable from lack of tree roots and results in flooding. There are pros and cons. Clear cutting exists because it gives money, but if there were another way that could give more money, we would be doing that.

It is all in our

minds that we have problems and

make worlds of our own

#3

He bled his mind to

the rocks, willing himself to

pay his respect there

#4

Ingenious the

mind is, how arrogant, how

unjust, how telling

#5

Tell tale breezes waft up through

the cloud of smoke, winding and

crossing their way towards me.

I hear the breeze speak.

#6

I see the trees, their branches

bare, their faces changing, nothing

is permanent, no where is the

same.  I feel the power.

#7

Everywhere I go,

he follows me,

calling out.

#8

Two fighting men, their clothes ripped

and ragged, both of them breathing heavily, reflect on

what they had done.

Two men, fighting, their clothes ripped and ragged, both of them breathing heavily, trudge away through the dirt.

#9

Speak to me, protector of the earth and

seas, protector of the evening breeze,

please, please, please, just speak to me.

#10

Our ingenious inventions are

an insult.  People act like the protectors of everything,

but they’re not.  Sadly, there

in no reflection of ourselves that

is no reflection of ourselves that

shows us in our heart and/or minds,

some believe. But all you have to

do is not try, and let it flow.

yet some people look

so hard for it,

but it is always there.

But to unlock it

you

must solve one of the most

simple paradox’s

in life.