A Forest Returns

In the film we are introduced to an elderly man who was a reporter during the depression. He narrates the movie and tells us all about how the Wayne National Forest was started. I found a lot of the pictures that he showed of the bare hill sides very moving. I also thought it was really cool that the movie showed the aerial photographs of the before and after of the forest from when it was nonexistent still when it finally grew back and recovered. I enjoyed learning about the state history as we had spoken about in class, since we normally don’t hear too much information regarding it. One quote that I found shocking was when the government told the farmers that the land had “ no economic value” , its just hard to picture that now with the price of land increasing everyday.