The home of sustainable forestry for a thousand years, Lebanon has a history of foreign occupation, only matched by its resilient ability to maintain its resources in spite of political and social oppression. Imagine trees coppiced every 80 years, not annually or every few years. That takes dedication to long term sustainable practices, where generations honor a vision resources for their descendants and limit consumption. Some trees here are at least 500 years old and have been coppiced only 5 times for lumber.

The forest floor is 80 centimeters thick with organic material. That's an O horizon 80 cm thick before you hit the A horizon of soil. — with Nabil Nemer.