If we don't -- and this is a sure thing -- the problem will only get worse, it will spew instability across this region, and the only rain forest your kids will ever see is the Rainforest Cafe.
"For years, Oregon has clear-cut old-growth forest to fund school kids," Josh Laughlin, campaign director at Cascade Wild.
Campfires, pizza nights and bike trails in the forest keep the kids happy.
Dodging the trees at speed (however slowly they pedal, they'll feel faster than the wind as they zip past tree after tree), taking on the knobbly, rooty ground, then picnicking on the forest floor, gives kids the freedom they crave with little risk.
"There's no way that I would've walked through a wood or a forest with my kids and gone back home and thought, 'right, I'll just check for some ticks just to make sure everything is fine'.
And though the task took twice as long, I was glad for her assistance, proud of her selflessness in the face of a forest to scavenge, kids to play with and a river to explore.
Who, I wondered, would own England's forests when those kids are old, and what would be left of them?
He remembers seeing those mighty beasts in the forest as a kid when his uncle worked inside the reserve, while it was under the state government.
The word "nonprofit" tends to conjure images of idealistic charities committed to saving vanishing forests, teaching underprivileged kids or counseling the victims of sexual assault.
He said something at some point about how the female character in the song is supposed to be this sort of neo-hippy -- the kind of person who would marry a biker and name their kid Forest Whitaker.
