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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I'm the Poet in the Forest, a

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children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest. It's going to be changing.

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In the days I had the city, the county, so

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many different people have been coming out into this forest

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and marking everything up. What we don't see beneath the

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surface is what somebody needs to see. Because AT and

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T has coming in to lay down their fiber. It's

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gonna be very different, only because they're going to interrupt

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the land. And you know, me, the forest floor is

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so important, but everything is so marked up, and from

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where I stand right now in the forest, those giant

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trucks are here with their large spools of fiber. Every

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bit of this forest is going to go through a disruption.

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And the reason why is because the land is connected

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to everything. Even with me standing maybe a quarter mile

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from the lake, the lions in the land, which will

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point the way for these fiber people to make sure

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that they don't hit things that we can't see beneath

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the surface. It's all going to be connected, it's all

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going to feel the vibration of the moment, and then

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you have to ask the question of how long will

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it take to recover? But this is kind of an

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interesting day and I want to document it in the

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way of telling the history of the forest, and this

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is part of it. What we don't see beneath the

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surface of the forest floor, these guys will because they're

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going inside it and they're going to disrupt what's in there,

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from the insect to maybe the sleeping toads. What about

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the turtles, where do they go during the winter months.

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The forest will be affected and it's going to be

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very interesting to find out if the vibration changes. Hey,

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thanks for being a part of the conversation.