Walking down the trail to the Bartlett Cove campground you can’t help but notice the haggard and bedraggled campers pushing wheelbarrows laden with camping equipment, greedy berry pickers jealously guarding their prized patches of strawberries, moose munching and crunching through the undergrowth, and also the trees. The trees along this trail tell the story of glaciers past, the retreat of ice and rebound of land and life. In a classic example of vegetative succession, these trees illustrate the transformation of barren glaciated rock to a lush and changing rainforest. From nurse logs growing neat rows of spruce to vistas of the beach fated to be overgrown with saplings, this forest trail is a complex mosaic of science in action, ecology at your fingertips. Photographer: Emily Mount