Murree’s Ecological Collapse: Water, Forests & Vanishing Springs

Murree’s Ecological Collapse: Water, Forests & Vanishing Springs

What was once the Queen of the Hills now stands as a wounded landscape, its springs silenced and its forests fading into memory. I am neither a historian nor a political theorist. I am a professional engineer, but one with an unusual obsession: the environment and the natural conifer forests that once blanketed these mountains. Yet as a native of the Himalayas, living in the hills of Murree, I feel compelled to tell a story that is both deeply p…