New growth in logged forests inspires photographer's hope
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally tonight, a story from PBS News Student Reporting Labs. |
| 0:05.0 | That's our high school journalism training program. |
| 0:07.0 | They take us to meet a photographer from North Bend, Washington, |
| 0:10.0 | who shares his passion for the natural world |
| 0:13.0 | and highlights how trees that were logged more than a century ago |
| 0:17.0 | can be surprising sources of inspiration and hope. |
| 0:20.0 | To me, this can be surprising sources of inspiration and hope. |
| 0:23.6 | To me, this work matters because the entire world is this interconnected web |
| 0:30.6 | and everything relies on everything else for the system to work properly. |
| 0:34.6 | And it's been humanity's fatal flaw that we have not fundamentally |
| 0:41.5 | understood that in a lot of ways. And we have taken and we have taken and we've taken and we've |
| 0:45.8 | undermined the very sort of foundation of how we survive. I want people, especially younger people |
| 0:54.0 | right now, to feel empowered. I want people to especially younger people right now, to feel empowered. |
| 0:56.0 | I want people to feel like there is a future to be created that can be better than the one that's currently being proposed. |
| 1:05.0 | I consider my gallery a sanctuary in the same way that being out in the woods or being out in the |
| 1:11.7 | mountains can be a sanctuary. It's given me also a place where we can come together and gather |
| 1:17.8 | around shared values. For instance, here at the gallery, earlier this year, there was an attempt |
| 1:22.5 | to sell off a lot of public lands. And so we had a big letter writing event where hundreds of |
| 1:27.1 | people from the |
| 1:27.6 | community came and wrote letters. We provided all the beautiful postcards with images of the places |
| 1:32.4 | that were being threatened and all the postage. And it was an amazing opportunity to take a stand. |
| 1:41.1 | The show that I currently have in the gallery, the Forest Abides, it features photographs |
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