Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I must jump in here in protest. Last week I spent a day snowshoeing up a mountain north of Montreal, photographing (M6 + 28/2.8) an Abenaki Indian who builds full-size birch bark canoes. Beautiful wood boats make me cry with joy and this man is one of the very few keeping an ancient tradition alive. He told me that suitably sized canoe birches are extremely rare today, most having been cut down to make toothpicks, popsicle sticks and tongue depressors. It takes 40+ years for them to grow back big enough. I urge all good people to not take trees for granted. Seriously folks. Emanuel Lowi Montreal