My husband and I bought this property with old-growth trees that we both said we'd protect, but now he wants to clear-cut a section for solar panels and I feel like we're about to destroy the very thing that made us fall in love with this place, and we can't even talk about it without him saying I'm being 'impractical' and me feeling like he doesn't understand what we're losing.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between conservation and progress becomes a mirror for deeper questions about what you value together and whether those values are actually aligned.
“Where Are You with Forests — ancient and new?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.