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LIES!!!!! HERE IS A LINK TO THE 2024 FIRE SEASON... NONE IN THIS FOREST AS YOU CLAIM HAPPENS EVERY SUMMER gis1.idl.idaho.gov/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=49bc88dc5e144ae2b3cd60a726168377&extent=-14468012.0632%2C4981528.1688%2C-11591533.8148%2C6512714.7194%2C102100
This video sparked some important thoughts for me, especially as someone who strongly supports economic freedom. I’d like to offer some insight into federal land management and its implications, based on my understanding. Federally owned land is regularly surveyed by both logging/mining companies and conservation groups. These groups petition the government to either protect or unprotect specific plots of land. While free markets are often stereotyped as environmentally destructive, I’m not here to debate that stereotype. Instead, I want to challenge the notion that government protection of land is effective and offer an alternative that most environmentalists currently do not like. Both logging/mining companies and conservation organizations are financially powerful: Lumber and mining companies leverage profits from previous operations. Conservation groups benefit from wealthy donors, science-related organizations, and contributions from other ventures. If federal land were privatized today, conservation groups could feasibly outbid corporations to preserve significant areas. This is because they only have to bid high enough for a logging/mining operation to be unprofitable, which with rising labor and equipment costs is actually not that difficult. What the free market would allow is for the only profitable locations to log and mine to be locations that environmentalists care about much less, and for the land conservationists care about most to be protected forever (assuming the government doesn't violate private property rights and takes it back). Unfortunately, the current system is far from a free market. Here’s what happens: Land is auctioned by the government, and both conservation groups and corporations participate. If a conservation group wins, the government often changes the rules-either barring them from future auctions or limiting auctions to corporations. Politicians prioritize short-term local economic gains, favoring industries like logging and mining, even at the expense of long-term environmental and economic benefits (e.g., tourism revenue from preserved nature). I’m pro-free market, pro-conservation, and supportive of responsible mining and logging. Ideally, both sides should compete for land in fair auctions. If I had to choose, I would personally support conservation groups for ecologically significant land, as resources like wood can be farmed, and mining opportunities exist outside sensitive areas. I get that everyone pro the environment hates my opinion, but if you want to protect the environment how little is it to ask for an open mind? I am not saying there is no other possible solution to be invented, but I am saying that no others currently exist, and the current system of government protection is doomed to fail. I know that conservationists hate my position on this, but this is my last point here. Technically, all federal land like this pristine rainforest are ALREADY protected by the federal government, in my view it only takes one SINGLE politician to decide a chunk of land is better used for mining and then boom, that forest is gone for 100 years- the environmentalist idea that we can elect benevolent politicians indefinitely is just naive, the reality is that if you want to protect the environment long term, the only REAL solution is private ownership. If someone comes up with something better I'm all ears.
Aidan we camped along the Lochsa River last summer (2024). That must be southern remnants of rainforest. We made supper in the rain. I saw strange plants I didn't know. They must've been lichens. It did feel like the coast, so magical and moist.
@AidinRobbins it is with teary eyed love I send you the warmest most sincere thank you for covering this so eloquently and with clean clear simple fact. You told this story as nicely as you could, there is nothing nice about the way our forests have ended up , we knew better, it was FORBIDDEN to just go cutting trees in most of Europe hundreds of years prior to these corporations moving over our old growth forests in USA. Most my family originated from here and Denmark, the other half back to the honorable George Klymer of Philadelphia a FOUNDING FATHER who is spinning in his grave so much I can feel the heat from here in South Sweden. Skåne and Denmark HAD DENSE FORESTS but they were destroyed, we knew better. We knew of the domino fall of species collapse long before corporations hired fake scientists to create the fraudulent nut shell game they still use today. Time for protest is over, they mocked us, and ran right over us. This time round we will be more assertive.
As an Idahoan, I really appreciate how well done this video is. It shines a much-needed light on the conservation of Idaho's old-growth forests and inland rainforests, as well as the protection of species like the Caribou. I hope it resonates with viewers and creates a deeper understanding of the fragility of these environments. It's crucial that we all recognize the need to conserve these natural treasures for future generations. Just a fantastic video.
I wish people would stop telling people what we have in Idaho . Tired of people coming here and trashing our mountains and forests. I always go camping and end up spending half a day cleaning up someone else's garbage.
As an Idahoan I wish videos like this one could only be seen by Idahoans. We just want to be left alone no Californians, Oregonians, or Washingtonians keep your terrible votes in your terrible cities.
As someone who's moved to the island of kauai from nebraska, I get how you feel. Tourists come here and while most of them are respectful, There's a lot of people who trash the places they stay at and leave garbage behind. I heard that in maui, a couple years ago, they had to close down one of the trails, and it stayed closed for a couple of years so they can do maintenance and the cleanup. Like literally how fucking sad is that? If I was still on mainland this rainforest would definitely be a place I would love to come and see and I would leave it as I found it. 💙🧜🏾♀️🩵
Agree. I’ve been watching documentaries, mostly PBS since a kid. I just found this guy. How refreshing. I wish him the best. I’m looking forward to watching more.
Idahoan here, love videos like this. The state is growing so quick and I do really hope that the cities stay cities and forests like these stay forests!
@@gmoney3797yes they have. Totally detached people. Their cities are filled with filth and they lecture others on how to live and hike up the cost of living to impossible standards but call themselves humanitarians. They’re cancerous.
@@gmoney3797dude ligit. That 6.5 magnitude earthquake we had like 4 years ago proves that the Californians are bringing their climate and geography with them lol
I just came across your content and I'm glad I did. I was born and raised in Northern Idaho and had always taken its nature for granted as a kid. It was my life, tubing down the rivers and hiking in mature mossy forests. Some of my best, most freeing memories were tripping through beds of moss, hopping creeks, and getting my feet stuck in clay mud. I remember finding an old growth patch of rainforest only 45 minutes away from my home in Coeur d'Alene. There was this small pond of foggy blue mineral water that had ferns growing from beds of clay. It was so beautiful, and I somehow never thought to take a photo of it. I don't live in Idaho anymore, I recently moved down south to Nevada to live with my s/o. I miss the green and rain so much. I am proud of my state's people for advocating for our nature and forests. One million people signed. Whatever movement happens, more will surely follow.
I use to live in Clark Fork, Idaho. It's about an hour or so from Coeur d'Alene headed east. It's 8 miles from Montana and about 60 miles from Canada. I still go back and hunt elk. I have property on lightning creek witch gets 30 plus inches of rain a year. Lake Pend Oreille is on the other side of a little mountain range. Hens all the rain fall. It's definitely a rain forest with patches of old growth.
@@D-train69 Wow, another Clark Fork resident! There are like 500 of us total, didn't think I'd see another. We get morels growing in our yard some years, definitely unusual ecology.
@@pudy2487 Lucky you! I lived in Northern Idaho for a while, visited Clark Fork too, and would give my eye teeth to live there again. Imo it's the most beautiful place in the country.
As a native southern Idahoan, the beautiful green of northern Idaho has a special place in my heart. Much of the year, in this area, everything seems various shades of brown; it gets depressing. Northern Idaho is like a completely different state, which I think makes it an incredible place to live.
omg i went to south idaho for the first time in my life a couple years ago, and it was insane to see the difference between my home up north and the south lol
North Idaho/Southern Idaho. Northern California/Southern California. North Dakota/South Dakota, North Carolina/South Carolina. I don't know what the deal is, but it's always been North/Southern for Idaho and it's easy to see why people get confused.
Hey! I’m from Southern Idaho too! And it’s just as beautiful as Northern Idaho! I’ve been just about everywhere in Idaho and I love it all! I’m glad god blessed us with this land!
This video gave me chills. You’ve concisely put to words the feeling of otherness that I feel as a human in these ancient landscapes. I’m an Idahoan, and that sense pervades all of Idaho. Nature isn’t cruel, or malicious, but it is supremely itself, and doesn’t have a concern for you. A humbling and grounding feeling.
I often feel much better in nature. It's usually being in these big, constructed environments that I feel most out of element. Once I get out into the woods and far from any signs of other people, it's just a total feeling of peace and contentment. It always makes me feel so much more present and connected with the world
@@movinginthepositive5460 I grew up in these exact Mountains he is filming, they dont "BURN" every year. Actually in the 30 Years I was in Sandpoint, ID we never had a major forest fire. You should educate yourself on the fire history of these areas b4 opening your mouth. Idaho (N. Idaho to be exact) has a great Forest Management System. And I hate the gov so me giving them a good rating is a rare thing.
@@Weidjeep that's EXACTLY what I've implied..... the DON'T burn EVERY year, in fact RARELY!!! I grew up in CDA.... this guy is a liar. I even posted the 2024 fire season map link in this post showing NONE of the area he has highlighted burned at all. Stop getting your panties in a bunch because you have low comprehension skills.
I live stateside in the county on the Idaho/Canada border. Northern Idaho is one of the most beautiful places in the world. When the government reintroduced greater numbers of wolves here, it drastically reduced moose and elk populations, and drove deer down into human residential zones. The government spent a lot of money trying to maintain those caribou, when it was a futile venture all along - we are not going to maintain the habitat they need, especially as our snowfall has decreased over the years, even in my lifetime as an Idaho native. My family on one side are multi- generational loggers. They do a phenomenal job working with department of lands and forest service, in sustainable harvesting and planting. Their good logging practices have protected our county from devastating wildfires over the decades, compared to our neighbors in WA. Proud to live here and enjoy this unique ecosystem 😊 Thanks for the video!
As a forester soon to be working in the PNW, a shift has been occuring to move to a more ecological approach. The aim is to balance demand for timber with the needs of the environment, both of which have importance. Replanting is required by law these days in a lot of areas, and some areas are purchased only to be protected and to grow naturally.
What exactly is a forester and what are the requirements? I'm from the island of Guam but I've always wanted to move to the PNW and get involved in some way with conservation.
I hike and backpack all over america and its something about the temperate rain forests that make me feel like im in another world. Being in the old growth feels like im in another time. I always have to struggle with myself internally to not stay in there forever and hike back to civilization. Definitely holds a special place in my heart
Proud to say my best shroom trips have occurred in the temperate rain forests of Oregon and north Idaho. Nature of course should be appreciated for what it is and you don’t need drugs to take it in but I’d much rather trip in these incredible biomes than in my house or something. As an Idaho native, a lot of the photos I see of the appalachians remind me of Idaho and montanas lower lying ranges that sit at the western foot of the rockies.
@rosson6580 nope. I be deep out there and don't see or hear anything. The only time I felt creeped out was I was like 30 miles in the middle of the Nevada desert and everything went completely silent which made all my hair stand up. Didn't actually see anything though
@@nomaderic damn so you never found out what it was? I guess another question what would be your biggest piece of advice for someone that wants to get into doing this stuff?
In Challis, Idaho there are petrified Sequoia trees sticking out of the hillsides, surrounded by sagebrush in a desert. Makes you wonder what the climate used to be like there.
As someone who lives less than two hours away from these forests (including Montana), I can tell you that it's unlike any forest you've ever been to and am so grateful I live in this part of the country.
Fantastic video! As a forester, I'd like to add a little bit more context on why the old-growth and mature forest protection in the U.S. Have been postponed for now (the conversation is still ongoing however!). 1) On the topic of mature vs. old-growth forests, there is a lot of grey area on their definitions currently in the fields of forestry and silviculture and how one is different than the other. While this video makes it seem like there's a clear split between the two (which is why I 100% agree that we should manage both sustainably together), on the science and research side, it's been extremely tricky to define which is which and when mature transitions to old-growth (this is the major road block currently). While it's easier to define for some ecosystems like the one in this video, it's not the case for others (such as the very common oak-hickory ecosystems of the eastern U.S.) We're starting to find out that no single definition presented at the moment is a "one size fits all" definition. Instead, we're finding that different parameters set what constitutes reference conditions from surviving pockets of old-growth for each ecosystem. For example, while having dense forests with little outside disturbance and large quantities of dead wood are good defining parameters for the ecosystem presented in this video, for others like the highly biodiverse longleaf pine ecosystem, where frequent fires, hurricanes, and open-canopy conditions are required, longleaf has completely different parameters, causing no single definition of old-growth to make sense. Because of this, researchers and scientists working for the U.S. Forest Service are currently going back to the drawing board to try and make defined definitions and parameters that we can manage and restore forests across the country to. 2) The other reason for the postponning is that income administration is expected to cut most funding to the forest service (as well as most other government branches), potentially fire many scientists currently employed with the government, and back out of protecting old-growth. Many in the Forest Service are currently holding their breath, waiting to see what kind of chaos is about to unfold, so most of their current plans, job recruiting, and extension work are being paused indefinitely.
@@laurachapin204Boohoo less federal taxpayer dollars to pay for bureaucrats to sit around and tell the states how to manage their land. How will we ever recover?
The amount of times I'll stumble back to your videos and find myself becoming emotional to the point of tears is more than I would like to admit. Absolutely gorgeous cinematography and story telling. Thank you for all your hard work, it definitely pays off to these beautiful pieces of work.
The production quality of these videos blows me away every time. I found your channel a few months ago and have watched nearly every one since. You always tie everything together in a meaningful way that really makes me think. Love your work man!
Just wanted to quickly say thank you for making these videos about one of, if not my absolute favorite ecosystems in the world. I do hope that one day I'll be able to experience the fog, the giant trees, the abundance of rain, and the peace and quiet that isolated pockets of old-growth can provide. Until then, know that your videos are the closest thing to that in my life and provide an indescribable amount of comfort and awe. Keep doing what you're doing, it's truly incredible.
I live very near North America's *other* temperate inland rainforest, the high mountain forests concentrated primarily in North Carolina, and there's just something awe inspiring about these ecosystems. Ours are unique in the sense that the harsher environment keeps trees relatively short, but they're still just as tangled as ancient as you're probably imagining. It's something everyone should experience at least once in their lives, a place where even the few people who live there don't seem to belong.
Thank you for bringing more attention to these beautiful but endangered rainforests! I love living here on Vancouver Island and the temperate rainforests that surround me. It's honestly surreal to me that I get to wake up every morning to this natural beauty and I am utterly grateful to people like you who bring more attention to them so that we may keep these forests safe from logging etc.
Thank you for bringing attention to the general public about why we should protect these places. I am a wildlife biologist and while policy and government do not reflect the importance of what scientists do, I thank you for acknowledging it and educating others in such a beautiful way. That feeling you got from standing in such a different ecosystem, I did too.
Ohh Aidin, your channel has evolved to something so utterly incredible! I’ve been here since back when you made videos about editing tricks and gave tips on making videos and I never would have thought that by this time you’d be making impactful documentaries about the wonders that our planet provides. I love the art style you’ve found for this format and the whole concept of what you currently do. Just want to leave these words of appreciation below this video and encourage you to keep at it, because I’m most definitely not the only one looking forward to future videos🥹🙏
Idaho is such a beautiful state. I'm very fortunate to have been born and raised there, spending the first half of my life hiking and camping in the Idaho wilderness. Thanks for this, the cinematography is gorgeous!
As a teenager who has grown up in the center of Washington state I have been so fortunate to experience all these wonderful places the Pacific Northwest offers these videos really make me realize how amazing the place I live in really is and want to do whatever it takes to protect it. I think everyone should see these videos and understand the impacts that us humans have on our world.
Great film as always, Aiden! I've spend quite a bit of time in the coastal temperate forests of Northern Calif, Oregon, Washington (and a little in BC) so it was neat to learn more about the inland temperate forests of Idaho. We've had such a long history of resource exploitation in North America since European settlement. The tug of war between resource extraction and conservation continues, but (thanks in part to films like this) we know more than ever the intrinsic value of these incredible ecosystems. I hope that knowledge and people's first hand experience with these beautiful forests will help us achieve a more sustainable approach to land management going forward.
You never cease to amaze me with the quality and production of each video. You are a talented man with an eye, mind, and heart fixated on the relevance and importance of protecting and bring to light the rare and endangered parts of this beautiful world. Nothing to say other than well done, and keep providing information on these forgotten places. Absolutely incredible, and necessary. A huge thank you from humanity and Mother Earth! We need more like you. ❤
I worked at the end of the road at Priest Lake near the turn of the century. It was the place I was on September 11, when the planes hit . That day, all plane traffic stopped for a couple of days, and it felt even more remote and wild up there. Didn’t expect you to be in Idaho! I remember finding lots of huge western red cedar next to empty meadows. Cool vid thanks for reminding me
We spend a lot of time right in the area where you describe near the upper Priest Lake. You will be appalled at the rate at which the majestic cedar trees are being clear cut in this area. Starting in 2019 when the last Caribou was lifted out , these amazing forests are now disappearing and being replaced with invasive weed patches. If you look at Google Earth historic images and contrast what has happened here you will be surprised.
Aidin- I’m home sick today and trying my best to lay down and relax. This led to me discovering your channel, and I couldn’t move on from the 20+ videos I’ve watched today without leaving a comment. Dude, you’re doing good things. Incredible cinematography, your videos project this incredibly unique atmosphere that has made this tough day a little better. Thank you for doing what you do, and be well 💙
Your videos are the best cinematic educational content I’ve seen on this app, and I especially love how relaxing and immersive they are. Love your work so much man
I have lived in Idaho after graduating from college and lived in the panhandle on the edge of old growth forests, it's majestic, magical lush and full of mystery. I now live in Northwest Michigan, close to the magical Lake Michigan. I wish I could have visited here before the logers cut down the old growth white pines and spruce, it would have riveled the old growth forests in Idaho. Both places have a special place in my heart. Please protect what you have!
This was so moving. I honestly was not ready for it. Idaho and it's rainforest has now gained a spot on my life bucket list and it's automatically in the top 3 of priority! Thank you so much Aidin. You and this channel deserve every single positive thing recieved.
There's Alaska, then I think that's all. But I would be pumped to find another :) (I should clarify: there are several more, Alaska is just the last one I have yet to cover)
I was actully begging to cry of the beautiy, the cinematography and the nature binded together makes me feel so, idk. Grateful,.! Thank you for creating such a masterpiece.
waking up to a new video from you is always a treat. But this one hits particularly close to home as I have just moved to Moscow Idaho. this is my backyard and i'm dying to go out and see this unique landscape!
I’ve lived in Spokane most of my life and this video really just shows me how blessed I’ve been to be able to experience these beautiful landscapes so close to home. I used to backpack here all the time and I feel like I’ve been to some of the places you filmed. I’m just so happy someone is covering such an under appreciated part of our country and especially of Idaho. It’s nothing like the south of Idaho and truly feels special. Thanks so much for this wonderful video
I worked in forests just east of Everett and got a chance to explore western Washington. It’s such a gorgeous state and can’t wait to see the eastern side of the state.
Thank you for this masterpiece. I'm in Northern Europe and seeing old, untouched forest is always like seeing an old friend, even if it's on a different continent, across an ocean. It's sad to see how little of these old forests are left and even the remains are threatened.
Conservation is Colonialism. Forcing poor nations to preserve trees. Keeps them poor. Resulting in a Cylce of Brutal Human Poverty. Meaning that Conservation is only a tool for Racism and Neocolonialism.
I've only been subscribed for a few days and am impressed with the quality of your content. Every video I've seen has been a gem, and this is another; well researched, well scripted, beautifully filmed, and polished to a level on a par with output from media corporations. Thank you and keep it up!
Please keep making videos about these unknown places around the USA! I went to visit the volcanoes in Northern Arizona after watching your videos, it was one of my highlights during my roadtrip. Thank you so much! Please keep exploring and sharing!
I lived in Sandpoint, Idaho for only 4 years when I was about eight years old. My family moved there from Colorado, and it was like a magical world for a small kid like me! Hiking and skiing there was so different than the central Rocky Mountains. It was a really magical place, and this video made me miss it so much! We really need to do all we can to protect this rainforest. I have hope something good will happen to help them thrive, and hopefully Canada will set a good example for the US to follow. Magical video! 💖🌱
I did not want this to end. The entire video was such a gem. The visuals, editing, the narration, was so beautiful and i loved the explorer vibe of it all including the part of underlining the phrases from the historical accounts. ❤
THIS IS WHERE I LIVE!!! I grew up in a small town named Troy Idaho, and I was a distance runner. I used to run up at the University of Idahos experimental forest, on the pathway. It is a BEAUTIFUL place and so important that this sacred area stayed protected as the University has kept it for years now. I am so so so happy to see this video, you said it ALL!!! My family is so involved with this story as our family came from a timber/ tree farming family, and it devastates me that the people I am descended from are responsible for parts of its loss. This story is so important, thank you for sharing and creating this video. If you can, absolutely check out Elk Creek River, or the Elk Creek Falls in Elk River Idaho. This area is a beautiful spot to hike or visit, and a very important place to maintain and support to keep it protected. 🌲
What a beautiful documentaries you make. I'm from The Netherlands where we have nothing like an old forest. So be careful and proud about your American rainforests.
I'm so glad this came across my front page. I really enjoyed the progression, the visual content of the forests, the panning, aerial shots, and the outro was a nice touch too.
Incredible video man! A lot of my family live in this region, on the Canadian side, in various towns and settlements on Kootenay Lake. I have spent so much time here that it feels like a second home, and protecting this unique ecosystem is extremely important to me! Glad to see you are bringing many people's attention to it; we need to conserve this stunning part of the planet for it's own sake, and for ourselves and future generations to enjoy!
I live in the area and have been bowhunting everywhere in this video my entire life. First, great video. Two quick things. After the 1910 fire the forest service replanted our forests dropping seeds from planes which is why we see so many species other than cedar and hemlock. Also, a lot of the notches you see in those old cedars aren’t from loggers. If they were from loggers there would be a stump above the notch. Actually a lot of those notches are from old pine marten traps and they are so high because that was ground level with snow on the ground when the traps would be set.
@@billsmith5109 CCC camps replaced the harvested white pine with other species, mainly doug fir. The advent of the cigarette lighter put an end to the white pine matchblock industry.
Excellent production. The rainforests are beautiful. Living in Idaho has been a great privilege with all its diverse ecosystems. I hope it survives the influx.
Always great, well told and pictured stories, Aidin. As a Cascadian who’s been engaged in forest issues - and can look over at the inland rainforest on the Cascadia map on my living room wall! - I learned much new stuff from this. Good work.
Sorry you are mistaken. We had a first hand sighting of a Woodland Caribou NE of Priest Lake in 1989. The photo and article of the trapped Caribou in Idaho referred to in this video was documented in February 2019. Maybe you neglected to put a decimal between the 5 and 0? Unfortunately the snowmobile related winter stress applied to the last Caribou in this area over the last 25 years has yielded the demise of the last of the herd. To top it off the clear cutting of mature stands and old growth cedar groves along the Caribou Creek and Trapper Creek drainages in the Selkirk range near Priest Lake since 2019 has destroyed this valuable habitat for generations. Many of these old Cedar trees were over 800, and some over 1400 years old. Last year over 20,000 logging truck loads were removed from this relatively small area on the east side of Priest Lake. Trees so large that only one or two fit on a logging truck.
I'm a conservation officer and I work in the Selkirks and track the caribou. Your information is incorrect, but few animals remain. The animals would venture across the border into Canada and then back into Idaho/WA. Collars on 8 of the animals show them remaining on the Canadian side for now. I can see the animals moving so the wolves haven't killed all of them. Wolves are a major problem for the caribou. I'm still active as a LEO and one of the biggest problems I also deal with is the number of people that have arrived here. Idaho isn't what it used to be. I'm stationed and live in the Selkirk Mountains.
I grew up in the Silver Valley in North Idaho, with the Selkirks to the north, and the Bitterroots to the east and south. The views of these mountain ranges from the top of Kellogg Peak and Wardner Peak were awe-inspiring... the forests here are amazing. I recall some small old growth stands up the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene River, which would land in the Selkirks....I need to go back, miss this beauty!
I really enjoyed that shot you use over and over in this video where the sunlight is lighting up just the top parts of the tallest trees in the forest. I love that time of evening when you're up in the mountains that shot with snow coming down is bonus.
This video hit me right in the heart. Idaho was a weird state to me before, but now I see it as more beautiful and interesting. Destruction of habitats is a major problem all across the world, I never expected it to be so close to home.
I’ve lived in North Idaho my entire life. I honestly didn’t realize I lived in a rain forest. This gave me a new perspective on my home land. Thank you for this excellent story.
great video. I love the temperate rainforest of idaho. the area around the town of elk river/clearwater river/nez perce national forest have some of the best old growth areas. Biggest tree and biggest waterfall in idaho are located in this region. Hopefully once its warmer you go back and do another video on this area if possible
thank you so much for including all of your sources and maps! i’m a pnw local and history buff, and having this swath of resources so readily available means a lot. love the video, thank you for the work that you do :)
This is our neck of the woods!!! So cool you covered this area. Our forests are unique! I live in NW Montana, in the mountains. I have for most of my life. So we have a short drive to Idaho panhandle. Our forest here is basically related. I have found many mini rainforests here. It's definitely a thing, those are my favorite places. It's a pine style rainforest. On a side note, the weather has been crazy lately and I don't know what to expect anymore. Starting to wonder if we are part of the pacific northwest (instead of Intermountain).. because the weather suuuuure reminds me of washington. Never have I seen so much rain in the winter as we have the last couple years. Anywho, thanks for a great film!
@@yourejustjelley Ross Cedars just across the border. There are some more impressive stands in Lightning Creek on the Idaho Side and also up by Priest Lake.
I've been looking forward to your next post. As always, I'm commenting to say how impressive your work is. Truly inspiring. Thanks for your commitment to creating high quality videos.
I've been binging your videos; they feel like a video essay, travel vlog, art piece, scientific analysis, and asmr all in one. You are one of the best video makers on TH-cam.
Great video. I backpacked in the salmo-priest(far north Idaho) wilderness last fall and it's easily one of the most beautiful and remote places I've been to in the US. The lush, low elevation cedar forest is probably my favorite forest ive seen in the US as well. It must be protected at all costs. The US has more mid-lattitude wild areas than many countries and that is exactly why we must protect these areas before it's too late. This shit is why as a 26 year old im hesitant about having kids
Just a note of encouragement to have lots of kids and take them at an early age to the Salmo-Priest and the Priest Lake area! Seeing it through their eyes is a catalyst for your own enthusiasm to protect these valuable places, while raising them in a healthy environment!
Great work of art! You inspire by capturing the majestic beauty of this valuable place, all while informing the viewer to a greater level of appreciation and understanding!
Thank you for putting this incredible video together, Aidin. It's great to see your impressive camera work and the quality of your film production being used to bring attention to this important and rare ecosystem. I live in Missoula, Montana, just over the Bitterroot Mountains from the lush inland temperate rainforests of Idaho's Clearwater country (the southernmost extent of this unique ecosystem ). Over the years I have made countless trips into this area to backpack, camp, float, hunt, and fish and I have fallen in love with it. There's really no place like it. I think it is important to mention to folks here that the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest (the agency that manages this region) has just completed a new Forest Plan that looks to more than DOUBLE the amount of logging occurring in this disappearing forest type (the Plan proposes going from logging 60 million board feet a year, to an astonishing 210 million board feet per year!). What we thought were the long gone old days of destructive clearcutting are now threatening to return. The Forest Plan also removed thousands of acres of recommended wilderness areas that were protecting many of the remote, roadless landscapes filled with mature and old growth forests (this was done in many cases to allow snowmobiles and ORVs into these quiet backcountry areas). There are many other actions in the Forest Plan that open the door to further damaging what little remains of this unique inland temperate forest and the wildlife that call it home. I encourage everyone to email the Nez-Perce Clearwater supervisor who signed off on this plan and let him know that you support protecting this place rather than logging it, damming it, or handing it over to more motorized use. Here is his email: heath.perrine@usda.gov. I would also encourage folks to follow and support the conservation groups that continue to fight for this special landscape. They are going to need all the help they can get to challenge this misguided Forest Plan. Check out Friends of the Clearwater: www.friendsoftheclearwater.org/. Most importantly, get out on the ground if you are able and explore this magical place!
Would love for you to visit more unknown European rainforests. Vestlandet i Norway has boreal rainforests. Even Bosnia has obscure beech rainforests - probably one of the worlds most unexplored...
There is a reason that some of us that grow up here, choose to leave, but more importantly choose to return based on the beauty you just showed. Wonderful cinematography.
This is an extraordinary video. I love how the shots and other parts connect in thoughtfulness, and the story throughout makes sense and is meaningful now. I've never heard of these forests before and I'm glad I found this video. This is fantastic work I was blown away by the drone shots and emotion of this video. Keep up the Great Work.
I have lived in Spokane (Eastern Washington) my entire life, 35 years. As a kid I grew up camping in the areas in this video. They are truly wonderful places and I wish greed wasn't running so rampant in the world today because it is changing everything too fast, we are heading towards a "Wall E" type dystopian future. The places I grew up in and took for granted as a child have now vastly changed from the influx of people migrating here. I get why they want to come to one of the best places on the planet. The cleanest natural drinking water in the world and the amazing outdoors, but it is bringing me to a realization. Modern humans are destroying almost everything. Our summers and winters are changing and I am weary of the future of the Inland Northwest. Most people say they care about the planet changing but they just keep consuming more and more without any second thought. I think we are over the tipping point and nothing will be the same as even 30 to 40 years ago. All of the special places around the world like this are being slowly destroyed from indirect human activity.
People have to live somewhere and that is why we have to destroy a place in fact where you live and I live for sure it was a very good natural place but now there is a house, street and neighborhood. And scientists say that mankind has been here hundreds of thousands of years and has undergone several climate changes over that time, and we're still alive, so we'll adapt and that's it.
I live in airway heights about 7 miles from spokane. My dream is to move to Coeur d'Alene someday and get out of this state. While I love our home state, I can't stand the politics here
This place is genuinely so beautiful it made me tear up. I feel like it's really hard to capture the beauty of somewhere like this, but the cinematography in this video is truly remarkable and I think you did as well as you could've conveying it's essence through the screen. This video is exceptional quality
finallllllllllllllllllllllly i was recommending your channel to a friend and just thought u havent uploaded for about 2 months ..............its been forever then i thought he must be on a trip lol
@@AidinRobbins buddy the level of content you are putting out no..... its worth the wait .............even uk i too planned to do something like you in india we dont even know what is the histpry of the region we live in i want to do a deep geographical as well as historical surveys and analysis .....you ignited that need to do that sorta things for me ........
Aidin, I grew up in Tahoe and camped and hiked and camped and grew up in the Tahoe National Forest. I appreciate the importance of what you are documenting, and the complexities of FIXING ecowebs WE have broken. I applaud your careful consideration and inclusion of research and analysis. BRAVO !! Keep doing what you are doing. You are doing it RIGHT.
A few points. I'm from northern Idaho, I grew up here and returned after being away for a little more than a decade. I work in the timber industry and my company is extremely environmentally conscious. Most of the extremely mountainous areas here have been logged in a half century or more and many of those trees are larger than most sawmills can handle so they are left alone. Our biggest problem with the forest is disease and bug infestation. One of the major changes that came to this region was the fire of 1910 that consumed millions of acres of timber and almost completely eliminated old growth forests in the region. The caribou don't care about the US, Canada border they move across when they feel like it. Protections put in place by bureaucrats frequency cause more problems than they solve. Cooperation between government "experts" and people who are familiar with the actual situation on the ground would produce a more fruitful result. This is an amazing and beautiful place and I would live nowhere else on earth. This is my home.
It's all cool, but aren't you biased? You literally work in the timber industry? Your line of work is inherently anti-environment, but pro-profit. You literally said you don't care about old forest since you cannot harvest it. Less old trees - more young trees - more wood to cut - good for you, no? You also put experts in quotes? Do you not believe government would provide any experts?
@cardboard2night I'm an outdoors person along with about 90% within my company so protecting our forests is important to us. We hunt, we fish, we hike, and we try hard to minimize our footprint in the forest. Visitors sadly don't generally do the same. Profit is important but making a profit in a sustainable and reasonable way is more important.
It is an amazing and beautiful place, but if something does not change, our grandchildren will be deprived of the opportunities we had. We live near Priest Lake. The amazing old growth Cedar forests in the Selkirks on the east side of Priest Lake along the Caribou and Trapper creeks were saved from the fires of 1910. Sadly over the last 5 years many of these old growth groves are being clear cut down at a dauting rate. These trees are between 500-1500 years old so obviously they have survived not only the 1910 fire, but many fires over the last 15 centuries! The disease and bug infestation follows poor forestry practices , much like we see occurring in the IDL endowment lands along the east side of Priest Lake. Last year 20,000 truck load of logs were harvested from this relatively small area in the Selkirk range at an unsustainable rate. Over the last 20 years the soils, native flora, riparian zones and important wildlife habitats have been badly damaged by poor forestry practices. What remains in many areas are very large invasive weed patches where majestic healthy forests once were.
The views of half dead mountains definitely proves any logging company or whoever IDL sells the timber too isn't environmentally conscious. Basically no native plants grow in these areas after they cut 95% of all the trees. Just infested with napweed and st. johns wort. And I lived and worked in athol, priest lake, and sagle.
Great job. My mother in law grew up in Idaho and there is a lot of history in Idaho I connect with. I went to Coeur d’Alene for a week once and I loved it and got to see Sandpoint as well. I’d love to see this forest one day. We must protect its future collectively.
Mahaos for a great video !! Superb quality, very relevant subject, great oration !! Born n raised on Oahu but now live in The Columbia River Gorge n was a die hard mtn biker until recently. Downhill n jumps mixed with forays into the rarely trodden hiking trails .. on two wheels n pedals. Up White Salmon River in S Washington is Buck Creek Trail. Rarely a shoe hits the soil in the northern half of the trail system. It was here where I dubbed the N most trail entrance/exit .. Moss Land. The 100+ ft tall Doug Firs, 6-8 ft diameter sentinels were just covered with lichen. Got it on my gopro 8. Absolute mystical MAGIC !!! Was at a rodeo in Glenwood, just E of this valley where folks said a LARGE grizzly was right on the main road thru town that day .. as I have suspected, they have found their way south again .. along with wolves.
Hey, Idahoan here, my face lit up and I started emotionally jumping for joy when I saw someone who is very cool like this man studying our state. Thank you man, and God bless!
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This video sparked some important thoughts for me, especially as someone who strongly supports economic freedom. I’d like to offer some insight into federal land management and its implications, based on my understanding.
Federally owned land is regularly surveyed by both logging/mining companies and conservation groups. These groups petition the government to either protect or unprotect specific plots of land. While free markets are often stereotyped as environmentally destructive, I’m not here to debate that stereotype. Instead, I want to challenge the notion that government protection of land is effective and offer an alternative that most environmentalists currently do not like.
Both logging/mining companies and conservation organizations are financially powerful: Lumber and mining companies leverage profits from previous operations.
Conservation groups benefit from wealthy donors, science-related organizations, and contributions from other ventures.
If federal land were privatized today, conservation groups could feasibly outbid corporations to preserve significant areas. This is because they only have to bid high enough for a logging/mining operation to be unprofitable, which with rising labor and equipment costs is actually not that difficult. What the free market would allow is for the only profitable locations to log and mine to be locations that environmentalists care about much less, and for the land conservationists care about most to be protected forever (assuming the government doesn't violate private property rights and takes it back).
Unfortunately, the current system is far from a free market. Here’s what happens:
Land is auctioned by the government, and both conservation groups and corporations participate.
If a conservation group wins, the government often changes the rules-either barring them from future auctions or limiting auctions to corporations.
Politicians prioritize short-term local economic gains, favoring industries like logging and mining, even at the expense of long-term environmental and economic benefits (e.g., tourism revenue from preserved nature).
I’m pro-free market, pro-conservation, and supportive of responsible mining and logging. Ideally, both sides should compete for land in fair auctions. If I had to choose, I would personally support conservation groups for ecologically significant land, as resources like wood can be farmed, and mining opportunities exist outside sensitive areas. I get that everyone pro the environment hates my opinion, but if you want to protect the environment how little is it to ask for an open mind? I am not saying there is no other possible solution to be invented, but I am saying that no others currently exist, and the current system of government protection is doomed to fail.
I know that conservationists hate my position on this, but this is my last point here. Technically, all federal land like this pristine rainforest are ALREADY protected by the federal government, in my view it only takes one SINGLE politician to decide a chunk of land is better used for mining and then boom, that forest is gone for 100 years- the environmentalist idea that we can elect benevolent politicians indefinitely is just naive, the reality is that if you want to protect the environment long term, the only REAL solution is private ownership. If someone comes up with something better I'm all ears.
Aidan we camped along the Lochsa River last summer (2024). That must be southern remnants of rainforest. We made supper in the rain. I saw strange plants I didn't know. They must've been lichens. It did feel like the coast, so magical and moist.
@AidinRobbins it is with teary eyed love I send you the warmest most sincere thank you for covering this so eloquently and with clean clear simple fact. You told this story as nicely as you could, there is nothing nice about the way our forests have ended up , we knew better, it was FORBIDDEN to just go cutting trees in most of Europe hundreds of years prior to these corporations moving over our old growth forests in USA. Most my family originated from here and Denmark, the other half back to the honorable George Klymer of Philadelphia a FOUNDING FATHER who is spinning in his grave so much I can feel the heat from here in South Sweden. Skåne and Denmark HAD DENSE FORESTS but they were destroyed, we knew better. We knew of the domino fall of species collapse long before corporations hired fake scientists to create the fraudulent nut shell game they still use today. Time for protest is over, they mocked us, and ran right over us. This time round we will be more assertive.
This is the kind of content that forces you to buy a better TV just to appreciate the beauty
Samsung rubbing their hands like Birdman
Or make me go there
No joke just bought a Blu-ray for the first time in over a decade. I want that full resolution and no compression.
Hell yeah
The beauty is just idaho.. thats it.
As an Idahoan, I really appreciate how well done this video is. It shines a much-needed light on the conservation of Idaho's old-growth forests and inland rainforests, as well as the protection of species like the Caribou. I hope it resonates with viewers and creates a deeper understanding of the fragility of these environments. It's crucial that we all recognize the need to conserve these natural treasures for future generations. Just a fantastic video.
I wish people would stop telling people what we have in Idaho . Tired of people coming here and trashing our mountains and forests. I always go camping and end up spending half a day cleaning up someone else's garbage.
@@thereckoning5488nampa here and i agree. People need to stop trashing idaho
Conservatives don't want to conserve what they have. All they care about is money and what is happening now, not future consquences.
As an Idahoan I wish videos like this one could only be seen by Idahoans. We just want to be left alone no Californians, Oregonians, or Washingtonians keep your terrible votes in your terrible cities.
As someone who's moved to the island of kauai from nebraska, I get how you feel. Tourists come here and while most of them are respectful, There's a lot of people who trash the places they stay at and leave garbage behind. I heard that in maui, a couple years ago, they had to close down one of the trails, and it stayed closed for a couple of years so they can do maintenance and the cleanup. Like literally how fucking sad is that?
If I was still on mainland this rainforest would definitely be a place I would love to come and see and I would leave it as I found it. 💙🧜🏾♀️🩵
Bro can single handedly compete with the production quality of Netflix and BBC.
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Definitely getting better too. Love watching people refine their work
And this guy can’t fleece the taxpayers to pay for everything like BBC and NPR can
Amazing quality
Agree. I’ve been watching documentaries, mostly PBS since a kid. I just found this guy. How refreshing. I wish him the best. I’m looking forward to watching more.
Idahoan here, love videos like this. The state is growing so quick and I do really hope that the cities stay cities and forests like these stay forests!
I think y'all are safe, granted I only really saw cour dalene. It certainly is breathtaking up there 🤙
Way too many Californians here. I was born and raised here and they have made things so much worse
@@gmoney3797yes they have. Totally detached people. Their cities are filled with filth and they lecture others on how to live and hike up the cost of living to impossible standards but call themselves humanitarians. They’re cancerous.
@@gmoney3797dude ligit. That 6.5 magnitude earthquake we had like 4 years ago proves that the Californians are bringing their climate and geography with them lol
We have so much national forest and wilderness area that cant be settled. We wont lose it.
I just came across your content and I'm glad I did. I was born and raised in Northern Idaho and had always taken its nature for granted as a kid. It was my life, tubing down the rivers and hiking in mature mossy forests. Some of my best, most freeing memories were tripping through beds of moss, hopping creeks, and getting my feet stuck in clay mud. I remember finding an old growth patch of rainforest only 45 minutes away from my home in Coeur d'Alene. There was this small pond of foggy blue mineral water that had ferns growing from beds of clay. It was so beautiful, and I somehow never thought to take a photo of it.
I don't live in Idaho anymore, I recently moved down south to Nevada to live with my s/o. I miss the green and rain so much.
I am proud of my state's people for advocating for our nature and forests. One million people signed. Whatever movement happens, more will surely follow.
I use to live in Clark Fork, Idaho. It's about an hour or so from Coeur d'Alene headed east. It's 8 miles from Montana and about 60 miles from Canada. I still go back and hunt elk. I have property on lightning creek witch gets 30 plus inches of rain a year. Lake Pend Oreille is on the other side of a little mountain range. Hens all the rain fall. It's definitely a rain forest with patches of old growth.
I've lived in Lewiston, Idaho since I was months old! Now at 33 - Idaho is still such an amazing geographical treasure in my opinion. ♥️
Same here!!
@@D-train69 Wow, another Clark Fork resident! There are like 500 of us total, didn't think I'd see another. We get morels growing in our yard some years, definitely unusual ecology.
@@pudy2487 Lucky you! I lived in Northern Idaho for a while, visited Clark Fork too, and would give my eye teeth to live there again. Imo it's the most beautiful place in the country.
As a native southern Idahoan, the beautiful green of northern Idaho has a special place in my heart. Much of the year, in this area, everything seems various shades of brown; it gets depressing. Northern Idaho is like a completely different state, which I think makes it an incredible place to live.
omg i went to south idaho for the first time in my life a couple years ago, and it was insane to see the difference between my home up north and the south lol
Lovee Northern Idaho I have family that lives there its just sooo beauitful🤩😍😊
North Idaho/Southern Idaho. Northern California/Southern California. North Dakota/South Dakota, North Carolina/South Carolina. I don't know what the deal is, but it's always been North/Southern for Idaho and it's easy to see why people get confused.
Yes!! But i still love southern Idaho! Native southern Idahoan myself! Wish it was the same as it used to be. Too many people moving here
Hey! I’m from Southern Idaho too! And it’s just as beautiful as Northern Idaho! I’ve been just about everywhere in Idaho and I love it all! I’m glad god blessed us with this land!
This video gave me chills. You’ve concisely put to words the feeling of otherness that I feel as a human in these ancient landscapes. I’m an Idahoan, and that sense pervades all of Idaho. Nature isn’t cruel, or malicious, but it is supremely itself, and doesn’t have a concern for you. A humbling and grounding feeling.
Wtf? And you believe that n Idaho burns every year? 😂😂😂😂
I often feel much better in nature. It's usually being in these big, constructed environments that I feel most out of element. Once I get out into the woods and far from any signs of other people, it's just a total feeling of peace and contentment. It always makes me feel so much more present and connected with the world
@@movinginthepositive5460 I grew up in these exact Mountains he is filming, they dont "BURN" every year. Actually in the 30 Years I was in Sandpoint, ID we never had a major forest fire. You should educate yourself on the fire history of these areas b4 opening your mouth. Idaho (N. Idaho to be exact) has a great Forest Management System. And I hate the gov so me giving them a good rating is a rare thing.
@@Weidjeep that's EXACTLY what I've implied..... the DON'T burn EVERY year, in fact RARELY!!! I grew up in CDA.... this guy is a liar. I even posted the 2024 fire season map link in this post showing NONE of the area he has highlighted burned at all. Stop getting your panties in a bunch because you have low comprehension skills.
@@movinginthepositive5460oh. We burn as bad as california some years.
I live stateside in the county on the Idaho/Canada border. Northern Idaho is one of the most beautiful places in the world. When the government reintroduced greater numbers of wolves here, it drastically reduced moose and elk populations, and drove deer down into human residential zones. The government spent a lot of money trying to maintain those caribou, when it was a futile venture all along - we are not going to maintain the habitat they need, especially as our snowfall has decreased over the years, even in my lifetime as an Idaho native.
My family on one side are multi- generational loggers. They do a phenomenal job working with department of lands and forest service, in sustainable harvesting and planting.
Their good logging practices have protected our county from devastating wildfires over the decades, compared to our neighbors in WA.
Proud to live here and enjoy this unique ecosystem 😊
Thanks for the video!
The GOAT of meaningful TH-cam content is back! Appreciate all you do, and appreciate you keeping all this knowledge free!
Man we can come up with something anything besides GOAT. High your education my friend.
The big steppa?
Alexander the great of youtube
@@D-train69 Heighten your education, my friend. You can't bash someone's choice of a word/acronym whilst also making a grammatical mistake.
Nature’s SuperHero 🦸♂️
As a forester soon to be working in the PNW, a shift has been occuring to move to a more ecological approach. The aim is to balance demand for timber with the needs of the environment, both of which have importance. Replanting is required by law these days in a lot of areas, and some areas are purchased only to be protected and to grow naturally.
This is so encouraging to hear, thank you.❤
What exactly is a forester and what are the requirements? I'm from the island of Guam but I've always wanted to move to the PNW and get involved in some way with conservation.
It should be completely untouched!
@@CountryKyle007Boohoo, go live in a mud hut if you feel that way.
I'm a logger in the area and I can back this up!
I hike and backpack all over america and its something about the temperate rain forests that make me feel like im in another world. Being in the old growth feels like im in another time. I always have to struggle with myself internally to not stay in there forever and hike back to civilization. Definitely holds a special place in my heart
Textures are all different.
Proud to say my best shroom trips have occurred in the temperate rain forests of Oregon and north Idaho. Nature of course should be appreciated for what it is and you don’t need drugs to take it in but I’d much rather trip in these incredible biomes than in my house or something. As an Idaho native, a lot of the photos I see of the appalachians remind me of Idaho and montanas lower lying ranges that sit at the western foot of the rockies.
Ok ok stupid question but have you ever had an encounter with cryptic shit. Like skin walker type shit
@rosson6580 nope. I be deep out there and don't see or hear anything. The only time I felt creeped out was I was like 30 miles in the middle of the Nevada desert and everything went completely silent which made all my hair stand up. Didn't actually see anything though
@@nomaderic damn so you never found out what it was? I guess another question what would be your biggest piece of advice for someone that wants to get into doing this stuff?
In Challis, Idaho there are petrified Sequoia trees sticking out of the hillsides, surrounded by sagebrush in a desert. Makes you wonder what the climate used to be like there.
They have amazing hot-springs too. The bottoms are covered in rocks and the pools and drained and refilled everyday so the water is very clean.
As someone who lives less than two hours away from these forests (including Montana), I can tell you that it's unlike any forest you've ever been to and am so grateful I live in this part of the country.
I live in Spokane, about 45 mins away from here
Have you to true redwood forest?
Fantastic video! As a forester, I'd like to add a little bit more context on why the old-growth and mature forest protection in the U.S. Have been postponed for now (the conversation is still ongoing however!).
1) On the topic of mature vs. old-growth forests, there is a lot of grey area on their definitions currently in the fields of forestry and silviculture and how one is different than the other. While this video makes it seem like there's a clear split between the two (which is why I 100% agree that we should manage both sustainably together), on the science and research side, it's been extremely tricky to define which is which and when mature transitions to old-growth (this is the major road block currently). While it's easier to define for some ecosystems like the one in this video, it's not the case for others (such as the very common oak-hickory ecosystems of the eastern U.S.) We're starting to find out that no single definition presented at the moment is a "one size fits all" definition. Instead, we're finding that different parameters set what constitutes reference conditions from surviving pockets of old-growth for each ecosystem. For example, while having dense forests with little outside disturbance and large quantities of dead wood are good defining parameters for the ecosystem presented in this video, for others like the highly biodiverse longleaf pine ecosystem, where frequent fires, hurricanes, and open-canopy conditions are required, longleaf has completely different parameters, causing no single definition of old-growth to make sense. Because of this, researchers and scientists working for the U.S. Forest Service are currently going back to the drawing board to try and make defined definitions and parameters that we can manage and restore forests across the country to.
2) The other reason for the postponning is that income administration is expected to cut most funding to the forest service (as well as most other government branches), potentially fire many scientists currently employed with the government, and back out of protecting old-growth. Many in the Forest Service are currently holding their breath, waiting to see what kind of chaos is about to unfold, so most of their current plans, job recruiting, and extension work are being paused indefinitely.
*incoming administration
Somehow, I knew it would be, at least in part, due to "incoming administration." There will be so much cleaning up to do later.
@@laurachapin204 Some messes cannot be cleaned up.
@ Trying to be optimistic here.
@@laurachapin204Boohoo less federal taxpayer dollars to pay for bureaucrats to sit around and tell the states how to manage their land. How will we ever recover?
The amount of times I'll stumble back to your videos and find myself becoming emotional to the point of tears is more than I would like to admit. Absolutely gorgeous cinematography and story telling. Thank you for all your hard work, it definitely pays off to these beautiful pieces of work.
The production quality of these videos blows me away every time. I found your channel a few months ago and have watched nearly every one since. You always tie everything together in a meaningful way that really makes me think. Love your work man!
Just wanted to quickly say thank you for making these videos about one of, if not my absolute favorite ecosystems in the world. I do hope that one day I'll be able to experience the fog, the giant trees, the abundance of rain, and the peace and quiet that isolated pockets of old-growth can provide. Until then, know that your videos are the closest thing to that in my life and provide an indescribable amount of comfort and awe. Keep doing what you're doing, it's truly incredible.
I live very near North America's *other* temperate inland rainforest, the high mountain forests concentrated primarily in North Carolina, and there's just something awe inspiring about these ecosystems. Ours are unique in the sense that the harsher environment keeps trees relatively short, but they're still just as tangled as ancient as you're probably imagining. It's something everyone should experience at least once in their lives, a place where even the few people who live there don't seem to belong.
Thank you for bringing more attention to these beautiful but endangered rainforests! I love living here on Vancouver Island and the temperate rainforests that surround me. It's honestly surreal to me that I get to wake up every morning to this natural beauty and I am utterly grateful to people like you who bring more attention to them so that we may keep these forests safe from logging etc.
Thank you for bringing attention to the general public about why we should protect these places. I am a wildlife biologist and while policy and government do not reflect the importance of what scientists do, I thank you for acknowledging it and educating others in such a beautiful way. That feeling you got from standing in such a different ecosystem, I did too.
This was very well done. Giving information without distortion and a call to action without an agenda. We need more of this.
Aidan, every content you post is always a delight to watch. The wait for you videos is always worthwhile. Cheers.
Ohh Aidin, your channel has evolved to something so utterly incredible! I’ve been here since back when you made videos about editing tricks and gave tips on making videos and I never would have thought that by this time you’d be making impactful documentaries about the wonders that our planet provides.
I love the art style you’ve found for this format and the whole concept of what you currently do.
Just want to leave these words of appreciation below this video and encourage you to keep at it, because I’m most definitely not the only one looking forward to future videos🥹🙏
Idaho is such a beautiful state. I'm very fortunate to have been born and raised there, spending the first half of my life hiking and camping in the Idaho wilderness. Thanks for this, the cinematography is gorgeous!
As a teenager who has grown up in the center of Washington state I have been so fortunate to experience all these wonderful places the Pacific Northwest offers these videos really make me realize how amazing the place I live in really is and want to do whatever it takes to protect it. I think everyone should see these videos and understand the impacts that us humans have on our world.
Great film as always, Aiden! I've spend quite a bit of time in the coastal temperate forests of Northern Calif, Oregon, Washington (and a little in BC) so it was neat to learn more about the inland temperate forests of Idaho. We've had such a long history of resource exploitation in North America since European settlement. The tug of war between resource extraction and conservation continues, but (thanks in part to films like this) we know more than ever the intrinsic value of these incredible ecosystems. I hope that knowledge and people's first hand experience with these beautiful forests will help us achieve a more sustainable approach to land management going forward.
I worked as a data collector for over 20 seasons in the forests of North Idaho. The amount of diversity you find up here is incredible.
as a north idaho resident i was very excited when i was this video. its cool to see one of these videos made so locally
You never cease to amaze me with the quality and production of each video. You are a talented man with an eye, mind, and heart fixated on the relevance and importance of protecting and bring to light the rare and endangered parts of this beautiful world. Nothing to say other than well done, and keep providing information on these forgotten places. Absolutely incredible, and necessary. A huge thank you from humanity and Mother Earth! We need more like you. ❤
I worked at the end of the road at Priest Lake near the turn of the century. It was the place I was on September 11, when the planes hit . That day, all plane traffic stopped for a couple of days, and it felt even more remote and wild up there. Didn’t expect you to be in Idaho! I remember finding lots of huge western red cedar next to empty meadows. Cool vid thanks for reminding me
We spend a lot of time right in the area where you describe near the upper Priest Lake. You will be appalled at the rate at which the majestic cedar trees are being clear cut in this area. Starting in 2019 when the last Caribou was lifted out , these amazing forests are now disappearing and being replaced with invasive weed patches. If you look at Google Earth historic images and contrast what has happened here you will be surprised.
Aidin- I’m home sick today and trying my best to lay down and relax. This led to me discovering your channel, and I couldn’t move on from the 20+ videos I’ve watched today without leaving a comment. Dude, you’re doing good things. Incredible cinematography, your videos project this incredibly unique atmosphere that has made this tough day a little better. Thank you for doing what you do, and be well 💙
Your videos are the best cinematic educational content I’ve seen on this app, and I especially love how relaxing and immersive they are. Love your work so much man
I have lived in Idaho after graduating from college and lived in the panhandle on the edge of old growth forests, it's majestic, magical lush and full of mystery.
I now live in Northwest Michigan, close to the magical Lake Michigan. I wish I could have visited here before the logers cut down the old growth white pines and spruce, it would have riveled the old growth forests in Idaho.
Both places have a special place in my heart.
Please protect what you have!
Oh well looky there, Aidin Robbins comes out with another video...
cancelling my morning plans for this. Glad to see a new video!
Hope you dig it!
This was so moving. I honestly was not ready for it. Idaho and it's rainforest has now gained a spot on my life bucket list and it's automatically in the top 3 of priority! Thank you so much Aidin. You and this channel deserve every single positive thing recieved.
Goddamn how many rain forests are in the US?
There's Alaska, then I think that's all. But I would be pumped to find another :)
(I should clarify: there are several more, Alaska is just the last one I have yet to cover)
Tongass National Forest is the largest of America. South east alaska
florida?
@VincentMuyaaflorida is a swamp
@@AidinRobbinsthere's two in washingston state! the hoh rainforest and the quinault rainforest :)
I was actully begging to cry of the beautiy, the cinematography and the nature binded together makes me feel so, idk. Grateful,.!
Thank you for creating such a masterpiece.
waking up to a new video from you is always a treat. But this one hits particularly close to home as I have just moved to Moscow Idaho. this is my backyard and i'm dying to go out and see this unique landscape!
Check out Idlers rest! It’s just a couple minutes out of town and has some beautiful big cedar trees.
I’ve lived in Spokane most of my life and this video really just shows me how blessed I’ve been to be able to experience these beautiful landscapes so close to home. I used to backpack here all the time and I feel like I’ve been to some of the places you filmed. I’m just so happy someone is covering such an under appreciated part of our country and especially of Idaho. It’s nothing like the south of Idaho and truly feels special. Thanks so much for this wonderful video
I worked in forests just east of Everett and got a chance to explore western Washington. It’s such a gorgeous state and can’t wait to see the eastern side of the state.
Thank you for this masterpiece. I'm in Northern Europe and seeing old, untouched forest is always like seeing an old friend, even if it's on a different continent, across an ocean. It's sad to see how little of these old forests are left and even the remains are threatened.
The most developed Places in the world have No forests.
Be thankful your people had the sense to get rid of them a long time ago.
Conservation is Colonialism.
Forcing poor nations to preserve trees.
Keeps them poor.
Resulting in a Cylce of Brutal Human Poverty.
Meaning that Conservation is only a tool for Racism and Neocolonialism.
The US has a lot of protected forest , are you talking about Europe? I know the UK, France, and Germany kinda fucked up their forests in the past
@OluseniIsaacsare you trolling? You've got to be lol
@@cliftonjames785 No it’s the truth , The richest countries have the fewest nature reserves. While countries like Brazil and Kenya are poor.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. The question of "what are we doing here?" at the end brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Aidin.
I've only been subscribed for a few days and am impressed with the quality of your content. Every video I've seen has been a gem, and this is another; well researched, well scripted, beautifully filmed, and polished to a level on a par with output from media corporations. Thank you and keep it up!
Please keep making videos about these unknown places around the USA! I went to visit the volcanoes in Northern Arizona after watching your videos, it was one of my highlights during my roadtrip. Thank you so much! Please keep exploring and sharing!
Absolute Gut punch to hear your local area being referred to as unknown 😭. For real though, totally awesome seeing neat videos like these come out.
While I've never been to Idaho, I've always found BC's inland rainforests to be astoundingly beautiful. What a fascinating and diverse region!
I lived in Sandpoint, Idaho for only 4 years when I was about eight years old. My family moved there from Colorado, and it was like a magical world for a small kid like me! Hiking and skiing there was so different than the central Rocky Mountains. It was a really magical place, and this video made me miss it so much! We really need to do all we can to protect this rainforest. I have hope something good will happen to help them thrive, and hopefully Canada will set a good example for the US to follow. Magical video! 💖🌱
As a north Idahoan my whole life: thank you for this video.
Hello from Lewiston, Idaho! ♥️
Moving there later this year, been visiting in preparation. It's SO pretty.
AND YOU BELIEVE HIS BULLSHIT THAT THIS FOREST BURNS EVERY SUMMER????? WTF?
@@shayekingsley7340 I went to Lcsc!!
He’s giving away your secrets. 😂. Enjoy the transplants that are coming now.
I did not want this to end. The entire video was such a gem. The visuals, editing, the narration, was so beautiful and i loved the explorer vibe of it all including the part of underlining the phrases from the historical accounts. ❤
Couldn’t wait until you made another video and now it’s finally here!! Thanks Aiden, these videos really are top quality and very entertaining.
THIS IS WHERE I LIVE!!! I grew up in a small town named Troy Idaho, and I was a distance runner. I used to run up at the University of Idahos experimental forest, on the pathway. It is a BEAUTIFUL place and so important that this sacred area stayed protected as the University has kept it for years now. I am so so so happy to see this video, you said it ALL!!! My family is so involved with this story as our family came from a timber/ tree farming family, and it devastates me that the people I am descended from are responsible for parts of its loss. This story is so important, thank you for sharing and creating this video. If you can, absolutely check out Elk Creek River, or the Elk Creek Falls in Elk River Idaho. This area is a beautiful spot to hike or visit, and a very important place to maintain and support to keep it protected. 🌲
What a beautiful documentaries you make. I'm from The Netherlands where we have nothing like an old forest. So be careful and proud about your American rainforests.
That’s beautiful Pls Give Africa tips on how to get rid of JUNGLE.
“Europe is a GARDEN”
“Africa is A JUNGLE 😷🤮🤮🤮”
-President Orban of Hungary…
I'm so glad this came across my front page. I really enjoyed the progression, the visual content of the forests, the panning, aerial shots, and the outro was a nice touch too.
Incredible video man! A lot of my family live in this region, on the Canadian side, in various towns and settlements on Kootenay Lake. I have spent so much time here that it feels like a second home, and protecting this unique ecosystem is extremely important to me! Glad to see you are bringing many people's attention to it; we need to conserve this stunning part of the planet for it's own sake, and for ourselves and future generations to enjoy!
Your content brings me back to the wonderlust you feel about the world when you're a kid with your whole life ahead of you.
Thank you.
Aidin, this is a masterwork presentation! It’s so interesting from start to finish. Well done!
I live in the area and have been bowhunting everywhere in this video my entire life. First, great video. Two quick things. After the 1910 fire the forest service replanted our forests dropping seeds from planes which is why we see so many species other than cedar and hemlock. Also, a lot of the notches you see in those old cedars aren’t from loggers. If they were from loggers there would be a stump above the notch. Actually a lot of those notches are from old pine marten traps and they are so high because that was ground level with snow on the ground when the traps would be set.
But how has anything grown if "these forests burn every summer"??? Such lies.
Not much was replanted until the CCC’s came along. Lots of brush, including huckleberry, did come back. With the brush, elk populations rebounded.
@@billsmith5109 CCC camps replaced the harvested white pine with other species, mainly doug fir. The advent of the cigarette lighter put an end to the white pine matchblock industry.
I live and bowhunt here too. I’m very thankful and blessed.
@@anisenkrill6179 Diamond Match also cut lumber, and stayed in operation just down Hwy 95.
Not possible. Idaho doesn't exist.
Uh they invented potatoes gemius!
Ya where’s idaho??
I love Idaho, NY.
I live in Idaho. It exists. But I don’t see a lot,of potatoes. Probably because I don’t live near them
I visited Idaho once, so I can confirm it doesn’t exist.
Excellent production. The rainforests are beautiful. Living in Idaho has been a great privilege with all its diverse ecosystems. I hope it survives the influx.
Always great, well told and pictured stories, Aidin. As a Cascadian who’s been engaged in forest issues - and can look over at the inland rainforest on the Cascadia map on my living room wall! - I learned much new stuff from this. Good work.
I am so happy that I found your channel, so awesome to listen to you talk about these natural wonders while doing something productive💯💯
I used to work for Idaho Fish and Game. I can verify that a caribou hasnt been spotted in idaho for well over 50 years.
Sorry you are mistaken. We had a first hand sighting of a Woodland Caribou NE of Priest Lake in 1989. The photo and article of the trapped Caribou in Idaho referred to in this video was documented in February 2019. Maybe you neglected to put a decimal between the 5 and 0? Unfortunately the snowmobile related winter stress applied to the last Caribou in this area over the last 25 years has yielded the demise of the last of the herd. To top it off the clear cutting of mature stands and old growth cedar groves along the Caribou Creek and Trapper Creek drainages in the Selkirk range near Priest Lake since 2019 has destroyed this valuable habitat for generations. Many of these old Cedar trees were over 800, and some over 1400 years old. Last year over 20,000 logging truck loads were removed from this relatively small area on the east side of Priest Lake. Trees so large that only one or two fit on a logging truck.
I'm a conservation officer and I work in the Selkirks and track the caribou. Your information is incorrect, but few animals remain. The animals would venture across the border into Canada and then back into Idaho/WA. Collars on 8 of the animals show them remaining on the Canadian side for now. I can see the animals moving so the wolves haven't killed all of them. Wolves are a major problem for the caribou. I'm still active as a LEO and one of the biggest problems I also deal with is the number of people that have arrived here. Idaho isn't what it used to be. I'm stationed and live in the Selkirk Mountains.
I glassed a group of 6 from Mollies in 2006 when I was deer hunting.
@ near Bugle Ridge?
@@rameylewis7730 Yes, they were at the top of Bugle Creek. I've also heard first hand accounts of people seeing them on the Snowy Top Ridge.
I grew up in the Silver Valley in North Idaho, with the Selkirks to the north, and the Bitterroots to the east and south. The views of these mountain ranges from the top of Kellogg Peak and Wardner Peak were awe-inspiring... the forests here are amazing. I recall some small old growth stands up the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene River, which would land in the Selkirks....I need to go back, miss this beauty!
I literally just resubscribed to you yesterday because TH-cam unsubscribed me this is perfect timing
This is such a beautiful video. Amazingly well done. May just have caught me at a delicate moment, but this made me cry a little. Thank you
I grew up all over these mountains. This place will always feel like home for me.
I really enjoyed that shot you use over and over in this video where the sunlight is lighting up just the top parts of the tallest trees in the forest. I love that time of evening when you're up in the mountains that shot with snow coming down is bonus.
I will consistently and permanently watch through (and like) all of your incredible videos. They're all so well made.
This video hit me right in the heart. Idaho was a weird state to me before, but now I see it as more beautiful and interesting. Destruction of habitats is a major problem all across the world, I never expected it to be so close to home.
Gorgeous production, beatiful storytelling and the soundtrack... Another work of art, thank you
Love the soundtrack too! I wish it was credited. I guess it's open license/royalty free ?
I’ve lived in North Idaho my entire life. I honestly didn’t realize I lived in a rain forest. This gave me a new perspective on my home land. Thank you for this excellent story.
great video. I love the temperate rainforest of idaho. the area around the town of elk river/clearwater river/nez perce national forest have some of the best old growth areas. Biggest tree and biggest waterfall in idaho are located in this region. Hopefully once its warmer you go back and do another video on this area if possible
thank you so much for including all of your sources and maps! i’m a pnw local and history buff, and having this swath of resources so readily available means a lot. love the video, thank you for the work that you do :)
Such a well researched and heartfelt video of a place very few have ever visited. Thank you.
Aidin, another absolute banger! You're storytelling, in-depth research, and filmmaking are always a joy to see in my feed.
This is our neck of the woods!!! So cool you covered this area. Our forests are unique! I live in NW Montana, in the mountains. I have for most of my life. So we have a short drive to Idaho panhandle. Our forest here is basically related. I have found many mini rainforests here. It's definitely a thing, those are my favorite places. It's a pine style rainforest. On a side note, the weather has been crazy lately and I don't know what to expect anymore. Starting to wonder if we are part of the pacific northwest (instead of Intermountain).. because the weather suuuuure reminds me of washington. Never have I seen so much rain in the winter as we have the last couple years. Anywho, thanks for a great film!
Also makes me think of the "walk of the cedars" in GNP. It survived a wildfire . Or near Troy, MT there's trails in cedars.
It’s not A Rainforest it’s a Forrest…
It’s a Garden
@@yourejustjelley Ross Cedars just across the border. There are some more impressive stands in Lightning Creek on the Idaho Side and also up by Priest Lake.
I've been looking forward to your next post. As always, I'm commenting to say how impressive your work is. Truly inspiring. Thanks for your commitment to creating high quality videos.
Beautiful visuals combined with a compelling story! A fantastic job as always, Aidin!
I've been binging your videos; they feel like a video essay, travel vlog, art piece, scientific analysis, and asmr all in one. You are one of the best video makers on TH-cam.
You’re making beautiful and impactful art and I hope you don’t stop.
not a lot of channels I absolutely adore, but you're one of them, thank you so much for the video mate
It seems like a miracle any of this wilderness exists today, your videos are single handedly creating conservationists, thank you.
The production of this video is off the chart. Amazing. I love forests.
Great video. I backpacked in the salmo-priest(far north Idaho) wilderness last fall and it's easily one of the most beautiful and remote places I've been to in the US. The lush, low elevation cedar forest is probably my favorite forest ive seen in the US as well. It must be protected at all costs. The US has more mid-lattitude wild areas than many countries and that is exactly why we must protect these areas before it's too late. This shit is why as a 26 year old im hesitant about having kids
Just a note of encouragement to have lots of kids and take them at an early age to the Salmo-Priest and the Priest Lake area! Seeing it through their eyes is a catalyst for your own enthusiasm to protect these valuable places, while raising them in a healthy environment!
You should have children so you can teach them to love the things you love and continue the efforts of conservation and doing good in the world.
Great work of art! You inspire by capturing the majestic beauty of this valuable place, all while informing the viewer to a greater level of appreciation and understanding!
Those high angle shots are absolutely stunning!
Thank you for putting this incredible video together, Aidin. It's great to see your impressive camera work and the quality of your film production being used to bring attention to this important and rare ecosystem. I live in Missoula, Montana, just over the Bitterroot Mountains from the lush inland temperate rainforests of Idaho's Clearwater country (the southernmost extent of this unique ecosystem ). Over the years I have made countless trips into this area to backpack, camp, float, hunt, and fish and I have fallen in love with it. There's really no place like it. I think it is important to mention to folks here that the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest (the agency that manages this region) has just completed a new Forest Plan that looks to more than DOUBLE the amount of logging occurring in this disappearing forest type (the Plan proposes going from logging 60 million board feet a year, to an astonishing 210 million board feet per year!). What we thought were the long gone old days of destructive clearcutting are now threatening to return. The Forest Plan also removed thousands of acres of recommended wilderness areas that were protecting many of the remote, roadless landscapes filled with mature and old growth forests (this was done in many cases to allow snowmobiles and ORVs into these quiet backcountry areas). There are many other actions in the Forest Plan that open the door to further damaging what little remains of this unique inland temperate forest and the wildlife that call it home. I encourage everyone to email the Nez-Perce Clearwater supervisor who signed off on this plan and let him know that you support protecting this place rather than logging it, damming it, or handing it over to more motorized use. Here is his email: heath.perrine@usda.gov. I would also encourage folks to follow and support the conservation groups that continue to fight for this special landscape. They are going to need all the help they can get to challenge this misguided Forest Plan. Check out Friends of the Clearwater: www.friendsoftheclearwater.org/. Most importantly, get out on the ground if you are able and explore this magical place!
Would love for you to visit more unknown European rainforests. Vestlandet i Norway has boreal rainforests. Even Bosnia has obscure beech rainforests - probably one of the worlds most unexplored...
There is a reason that some of us that grow up here, choose to leave, but more importantly choose to return based on the beauty you just showed. Wonderful cinematography.
2nd native Idahoan here. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for my home atate, it means alot.
This is an extraordinary video. I love how the shots and other parts connect in thoughtfulness, and the story throughout makes sense and is meaningful now. I've never heard of these forests before and I'm glad I found this video. This is fantastic work I was blown away by the drone shots and emotion of this video. Keep up the Great Work.
I have lived in Spokane (Eastern Washington) my entire life, 35 years. As a kid I grew up camping in the areas in this video. They are truly wonderful places and I wish greed wasn't running so rampant in the world today because it is changing everything too fast, we are heading towards a "Wall E" type dystopian future. The places I grew up in and took for granted as a child have now vastly changed from the influx of people migrating here. I get why they want to come to one of the best places on the planet. The cleanest natural drinking water in the world and the amazing outdoors, but it is bringing me to a realization. Modern humans are destroying almost everything. Our summers and winters are changing and I am weary of the future of the Inland Northwest. Most people say they care about the planet changing but they just keep consuming more and more without any second thought. I think we are over the tipping point and nothing will be the same as even 30 to 40 years ago. All of the special places around the world like this are being slowly destroyed from indirect human activity.
It’s scary
I had that realization when I was like 4.
People have to live somewhere and that is why we have to destroy a place in fact where you live and I live for sure it was a very good natural place but now there is a house, street and neighborhood. And scientists say that mankind has been here hundreds of thousands of years and has undergone several climate changes over that time, and we're still alive, so we'll adapt and that's it.
I live in airway heights about 7 miles from spokane. My dream is to move to Coeur d'Alene someday and get out of this state. While I love our home state, I can't stand the politics here
This place is genuinely so beautiful it made me tear up. I feel like it's really hard to capture the beauty of somewhere like this, but the cinematography in this video is truly remarkable and I think you did as well as you could've conveying it's essence through the screen. This video is exceptional quality
finallllllllllllllllllllllly i was recommending your channel to a friend and just thought u havent uploaded for about 2 months ..............its been forever then i thought he must be on a trip lol
Should be less than 2 months before the next one :)
@@AidinRobbins buddy the level of content you are putting out no..... its worth the wait .............even uk i too planned to do something like you in india we dont even know what is the histpry of the region we live in i want to do a deep geographical as well as historical surveys and analysis .....you ignited that need to do that sorta things for me ........
Aidin,
I grew up in Tahoe and camped and hiked and camped and grew up in the Tahoe National Forest. I appreciate the importance of what you are documenting, and the complexities of FIXING ecowebs WE have broken.
I applaud your careful consideration and inclusion of research and analysis.
BRAVO !!
Keep doing what you are doing. You are doing it RIGHT.
A few points. I'm from northern Idaho, I grew up here and returned after being away for a little more than a decade. I work in the timber industry and my company is extremely environmentally conscious. Most of the extremely mountainous areas here have been logged in a half century or more and many of those trees are larger than most sawmills can handle so they are left alone. Our biggest problem with the forest is disease and bug infestation.
One of the major changes that came to this region was the fire of 1910 that consumed millions of acres of timber and almost completely eliminated old growth forests in the region.
The caribou don't care about the US, Canada border they move across when they feel like it. Protections put in place by bureaucrats frequency cause more problems than they solve. Cooperation between government "experts" and people who are familiar with the actual situation on the ground would produce a more fruitful result.
This is an amazing and beautiful place and I would live nowhere else on earth. This is my home.
It's all cool, but aren't you biased? You literally work in the timber industry? Your line of work is inherently anti-environment, but pro-profit. You literally said you don't care about old forest since you cannot harvest it. Less old trees - more young trees - more wood to cut - good for you, no? You also put experts in quotes? Do you not believe government would provide any experts?
@cardboard2night I'm an outdoors person along with about 90% within my company so protecting our forests is important to us. We hunt, we fish, we hike, and we try hard to minimize our footprint in the forest. Visitors sadly don't generally do the same. Profit is important but making a profit in a sustainable and reasonable way is more important.
It is an amazing and beautiful place, but if something does not change, our grandchildren will be deprived of the opportunities we had. We live near Priest Lake. The amazing old growth Cedar forests in the Selkirks on the east side of Priest Lake along the Caribou and Trapper creeks were saved from the fires of 1910. Sadly over the last 5 years many of these old growth groves are being clear cut down at a dauting rate. These trees are between 500-1500 years old so obviously they have survived not only the 1910 fire, but many fires over the last 15 centuries! The disease and bug infestation follows poor forestry practices , much like we see occurring in the IDL endowment lands along the east side of Priest Lake. Last year 20,000 truck load of logs were harvested from this relatively small area in the Selkirk range at an unsustainable rate. Over the last 20 years the soils, native flora, riparian zones and important wildlife habitats have been badly damaged by poor forestry practices. What remains in many areas are very large invasive weed patches where majestic healthy forests once were.
@cardboard2night I know a government "expert" that needed a Presidential pardon. Gtfo with the "experts"
The views of half dead mountains definitely proves any logging company or whoever IDL sells the timber too isn't environmentally conscious. Basically no native plants grow in these areas after they cut 95% of all the trees. Just infested with napweed and st. johns wort. And I lived and worked in athol, priest lake, and sagle.
Great job. My mother in law grew up in Idaho and there is a lot of history in Idaho I connect with. I went to Coeur d’Alene for a week once and I loved it and got to see Sandpoint as well. I’d love to see this forest one day. We must protect its future collectively.
Tapped on the notification so hard. Have been waiting for long
It's been a bit! Hope you dig it :)
Mahaos for a great video !! Superb quality, very relevant subject, great oration !! Born n raised on Oahu but now live in The Columbia River Gorge n was a die hard mtn biker until recently. Downhill n jumps mixed with forays into the rarely trodden hiking trails .. on two wheels n pedals. Up White Salmon River in S Washington is Buck Creek Trail. Rarely a shoe hits the soil in the northern half of the trail system. It was here where I dubbed the N most trail entrance/exit .. Moss Land. The 100+ ft tall Doug Firs, 6-8 ft diameter sentinels were just covered with lichen. Got it on my gopro 8. Absolute mystical MAGIC !!! Was at a rodeo in Glenwood, just E of this valley where folks said a LARGE grizzly was right on the main road thru town that day .. as I have suspected, they have found their way south again .. along with wolves.
Hey, Idahoan here, my face lit up and I started emotionally jumping for joy when I saw someone who is very cool like this man studying our state. Thank you man, and God bless!
It’s very clear this content creator really likes what he does. The effort and quality are through the roof and not common at this level of care.
Jeeze how does this guy not have over 1m subscribers. The quality of these videos is insane