My roommate and I were watching that no reservations show with anthony bordain. It was a pretty cool show and i kind of liked it, it was interesting and I like the way non americans think and work. But it made me realize something, he was on some island where they had no electricity or very little electricity, and at night they sit around playing guitar and singing and playing card games and stuff like that. At one point they climbed part of a mountain and said it was one of the most beautiful places on earth. It made me wonder why Michigan wasn't one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the same reason the black forest of Germany isn't one of the most beautiful places on earth... People. If you go to an acre of forest and throw monkey shit everywhere, that doesn't really change the beauty of the forest; however, if you cut down the trees and build a house then it is no longer a forest it is someones fucking yard.
A massive hundred thousand acre forest of white pine would be one of the most beautiful places on earth. Too bad people need houses and strong soft woods are the most abundant and easiest lumber available. Michigan still has a lot of untouched wilderness but, we have made a huge dent, wolverines, our state animal have long been gone from the lower part of the state. Bald eagles are just starting to again flourish in the northern parts of the state.
"Some people" are banging in their room next to me and the TV isn't on like it usually is so i have to go upstairs to finish this post.
(continue paragraph) The sand dunes of Ludington at silver lake, where the dumb asses at my school went dune riding and where we took our road trip, was once a massive forest. But, as they are so proud of there, when Chicago burned down a man came to Michigan to gather lumber to reconstruct. The earth never recovered as the Au Sable points are on lake Michigan and the lake affect weather quickly destroyed the top soil turning the forest into sand dunes. The man has a city named after him in that area, because apparently job are more important to American than nature. I wish michigan was forest again.