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Zoom into Olympic National Forest Time Lapse: 1984 to 1995 (1999)

1999 · Short film

Synopsis

The ten small scenes show a one mile square area in the Olympic National Forest to the northwest of the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Pennisula in northwestern Washington State. Clear cutting in the area was already well underway at the time for the first Landsat scene in 1984. Public land use policy changes in the late 1980s resulted in timber cutting relocating from public lands to private holdings. Some revegetation of the clear cut areas can be seen in the later data. A set of four…

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