The River Is Only as Healthy as the Forest

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"From my earliest childhood, i felt that something was going on in the groves," he says. To me, there's a remote and cloistered feeling here. One holds back speech for fear of disturbing something wanton. "We take and they take. We give and they give." 'The forest is only as healthy as what we give back to them'

The second in a three-part series, journeying into the soul of America through the eyes of artists, while following in the footsteps of Nobel Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck who drove across the country in 1960 for his iconic book, Travels with Charley. In this episode, photographer Wayne Gudmundson in eastern North Dakota, and Yurok basket weaver Susan “Tweet” Burdick in Humboldt County, California. Produced by John Biewen.