A Froests Returns

The video shown in class was very informative for me. The video was a documentary told by Mr Anderson that outlined the reason for the forest destruction and how the forest came back into the society. He first notes that the government buys acres of land in order to create jobs for people as they were in the center of Great Depression.

When the land was bought, they would cut the trees down and basically destroy the land for the next 100 years. People were farming on the land and cutting down trees to use the wood for resource purposes. The area made a lot of their money from making charcoal from the trees while turning most of the area as a mine territory. After the land was used up, the government left it alone for a while, then the trees began to grow back in the next 20 yrs. The Three C camp was formed in order to rescue the forest population and the forest itself that was forming. They also helped out by planting a lot of trees in the area. They was not the only organization the help out but they was one of the ones highlighted in the video.

The video also noted the reasoning for the forest return. Anderson said that the neglect from farming resulted in the reforestation of Ohio. This video opened my eyes and mind to the past history of forest in Ohio. I knew we used trees as resources, but I never knew that we destroyed all of the land. Its good to know that to this day people still care about the well being of the forest and because of their actions and commitment, the Wayne National forest is re-built. Anderson is a prime example of someone who knew what it took to keep forest growing in this day in age.