While on a recent trip south to see my family I was zipping down I-77 in southwestern Virginia and had to do a double-take when I passed this scene near the town of Poplar Camp. It was a crappy overcast day but I noted the mile marker so I could stop on the shoulder on the way back.
The stark contrast of the forest and the bare rock dwarfing the heavy equipment being used to destroy the landscape is stunning to me. I cannot believe that we allow this kind of man-made destruction to occur.
BURNED
In 2008 U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 1,451,500 fires. These fires resulted in 3,320 civilian fire fatalities, 16,705 civilian fire injuries and an estimated $15,478,000,000 in direct property loss. (The direct property loss includes the California Wildfires 2008 with an estimated property loss of $1,400,000,000.) There was a civilian fire death every 158 minutes and a civilian [...]
I had two assignments today. One was covering the issuing of the first marriage licenses to the Washington, D.C. gay and lesbian community and the second was the Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley press conference. The press conference was part of their public relations tour leading up to their fight at the MGM Grand [...]
Mar 10,2010 - Washington, District of Columbia USA - .Bill Gates and Former President Bill Clinton participate in a briefing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on New Directions in Global Health on Wednesday...(Credit Image: © Pete Marovich/ZUMA Press)
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Powerful and sad in the same frame Pete.