The Appalachian Rainforest
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 5. 07. 2024
- Stories about a special landscape close to home.
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Further Reading:
Britannica - Appalachian Mountains: www.britannica.com/place/Appa...
Scott Weidensaul - Mountains of the Heart: www.scottweidensaul.com/mounta...
Paul B. Alaback - Comparative ecology of temperate rainforests of the Americas along analogous climatic gradients: rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/19...
Gaffin, David & Hotz, David. (2000). A Precipitation and Flood Climatology with Synoptic Features of Heavy Rainfall across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. 24. 3-15: www.weather.gov/mrx/heavyrain...
Jenkins, M. A. (2007). Vegetation Communities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Southeastern Naturalist, 6, 35-56: www.jstor.org/stable/4540998
WCU - Biodiversity of Highlands: highlandsbiological.org/biodi...
FWS - Endangered Ecosystems: ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/download...
NPS: www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature...
www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin...
www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature...
www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature...
Elisha Mitchell: www.ncpedia.org/anchor/elisha...
Mount Mitchell State Park: bit.ly/45KeeeX
Brown, M. L. (1992). Captains of Tourism: Selling a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains. Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, 4, 42-49: www.jstor.org/stable/41445620
Pierce, D. (1998). The Barbarism of the Huns: Family and Community Remoal in the Establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 57(1), 62-79: www.jstor.org/stable/42627398
Audubon - George Masa: bit.ly/4cjmMf9
Robert Moor - On Trails: bit.ly/3VFS2hj
French, L., & Hornbuckle, J. (Eds.). (1981). The Cherokees-Then And Now. In The Cherokee Perspective: Written by Eastern Cherokees (pp. 3-43). Appalachian State University: doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1xp3kws.7
Wild South - Cherokee Trails: bit.ly/4cjlvoi
James Mooney - Myths of the Cherokee: www.gutenberg.org/files/45634...
Manen, Frank. (1994). Black bear habitat use in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: bit.ly/4cIma2J
Gloria Dickie - Eight Bears: www.gloriadickie.com/eight-bears
Maureen Enns: charlierussellbears.com/1997/...
Maps/Graphics:
LOC - Southern States: www.loc.gov/item/99447122/
Ice Age Migration: bit.ly/4cghbWY
Red Spruce range: bit.ly/45HPdkp
LOC - McConnell's historical maps of the United States: www.loc.gov/item/2009581130/
LOC - Proposed Park Boundary: www.loc.gov/item/99446149/
LOC - Great Smoky Map: www.loc.gov/item/81692179/
LOC - Indigenous Groups Map: www.loc.gov/item/2002622260/
Indian Land Cessions: bit.ly/3RLjyZU
Photos:
George Masa: georgemasaphotodatabase.com/
NPS: bit.ly/4cHen4T
Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center
Newspapers:
Clingman's Peak: www.newspapers.com/article/fa...
Elisha Mitchell: www.newspapers.com/article/se...
Stock Market Crash: www.newspapers.com/article/mo...
Mount Mitchell State Park: www.newspapers.com/article/as...
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Great Smoky Park Establishment: www.newspapers.com/article/th...
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www.newspapers.com/article/na...
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Bears: www.newspapers.com/article/wi...
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0:00 - Intro
2:31 - The Forest
4:57 - The Trees
8:10 - The Park
12:02 - The Trails
15:18 - The Bears
17:55 - Outro
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This channel could just be about the study of rain forest for the rest of Aidins career and I'm here for it
Don't tempt me
@@AidinRobbins Aidin we need you to be the modern george mosa! haha
Your username checks out
Please rewatch around minute 08:32. Looks creepy to me
â@@Greaterbing52saw that too, wtf?!
It's also worth mentioning that large areas of the Appalachia's were originally dominated by giant American chestnut trees that reached sizes similar to the Redwoods on the west coast, until chestnut blight was introduced from Asia in the early 1900's and wiped them out, leaving only small saplings surviving in the wild today. That and Chinese chestnuts which are adapted to resist the blight. You can find pictures of the old giant American chestnuts on google, they're amazing.
I always wonder, did no original Chestnut trees DNA survive?
Can't scientists revive a modified chestnut tree which has majority American Chestnut DNA?
I have seen those Old trees in pictures.
Also I read somewhere that having Chestnut trees was an ecosystem in itself.
Farmers will get nuts from them, it would be used to feed hogs. Wood will be used for construction, and so on.
@@learndesignwithdevyes there are still isolated individual trees. Also there is currently an effort to cross breed the American Chestnut with other blight resistant variants so it can be reintroduced back into the forests in greater numbers.
they were a big part of our culture too. we would trade chestnuts for goods like shoes.
@@learndesignwithdev there are some small groves that persist as root systems, but can never grow up to the point that they can reproduce. eventually those will die out, too. there are some attempts to create hybrids with chestnuts from other parts of the world, and also genetically modified chestnut that has a resistance to the blight.
we also used chestnuts as currency. we were and still are very poor in Southern Appalachia, and they became a way to afford goods like shoes.
There are two programs to revive the American Chestnut. One involves cross breeding and intercrossing American chestnut and Chinese chestnut and then selective breeding trees with desired properties. They have had limited success. The other program is taking a direct approach and has genetically modified American chestnut with the blight resistance genes from wheat. They have had limited success. We are still a long ways off of having an 99% American chestnut that will be blight resistant. We may NEVER have an American chestnut that will grow to the size and grandeur of those old trees.
i genuinely believe unless someone has lived around this region of appalachia or visited it, they couldn't even begin to comprehend the beauty that is this region of the world.
Man those forest shots are so deeply green, a calming tone of it, with the sense of solitude and all the fog? This is one hell of a vibe, I could watch and rewatch this video a thousand times for the visuals alone!
There's definitely something very comforting about being in those woods. We don't have the tall peaks you see out west but the experience of being deep in the forest of southern Appalachia is unmatched.
Same! I can almost smell the glorious negative ions coming from that rich luscious forest! I would love to be there and breathe deeply.
the thing that blows my mind the most is that not only are the mountains (obviously) older than the trees, the mountains are literally older than any trees that ever existed on the planet. the appalachian mountains are older than the idea of trees
they're older than bones and older than life on land
That was always a huge draw for me living near them. Everything had a different feel, ancient yet also timeless. If you look up the geological history of Mount Mitchell and the surrounding Black Mountains, their original heights surpassed the Himalayas. They are for the most part rolling and pastoral now only because of time wearing them down to what we see today.
Plus wherever you see the side of the mountains cut into for roads, you see rock that could not have any fossils, as it predates a lot of life.
Along the foothill area in GA you can find prehistoric marine fossils. Super cool.
The Appalachian mountains date back to the last ice age. They were created by the last glaciers. Trees existed tens of millions of years before that.
@@charleshulsey3103 Thatâs right, grew up in that area and sometimes weâd get lucky enough to split open a stone to find small fossilized shells.
As a North Carolinian, I really appreciate you taking the time to cover the cultural, ecological, and geological history of Western NC. It truly is a special place with so many fascinating stories to tell, and I'm glad to see someone depict it with such passion. Keep up the great work!
As a fellow North Carolinian, it's my favorite place in the world. I'm glad Aidin made such a high quality video covering it!
Same
There's going to be a million more people moving to Asheville because of this video.
i live on grandfather mountain, best place possible
Raised in Ashe County, then moved to Boone, now Asheville. SO grateful to have spent my whole life here
everything this man makes is an absolute masterpiece
genuine poetry
I'm British, but your videos have made me fall in love with Appalachia. I really want to visit the USA just to hike the AT.
You could literally make a month's long trip out of it! ..or more. There's so many places along the range to visit seeing as it crosses all the way from Georgia to Maine.
You should hike it, itâs awesome
It's goregous!.
If you want a more tourist friendly place (everyone's pretty nice along the mountains but for amenities and infrastructure) look up the Delaware water gap, also jim thrope in PA. It's stunning and I'm absolutely in love with this state.
Gotta be used to the rain to do it, so I think Brits will do well.
Safety is an issue on the appalacchian trail. If you do go take extra security precautions.
You make some of the best content on CZcams, the audio, the script, the cinematography, and the B-roll, just beautiful.
I couldn't agree more, high quality all the way
I loved this story. I'm from Oregon but live in Virginia and am always trying to understand and decode the quieter beauty of the nature out here.
when i see johnnyharris comment here and i knew im in right place.
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There's something haunting about a cemetery reclaimed by mother nature. It feels like it symbolizes that even in death there will always be a chance for new life, a chance to regrow.
As a geologist I love this channels content, and color editing is always top notch, kind of creates a cozy vibe for every video.
A CZcamsr going hard core with 4k video quality showing the stunning beauty of my backyard and unparalleled research on their videos. Truly you are a rare breed and your videos show that. Love everything about them because they are so well made, but also because the Appalachians are where I grew up and watching your videos make me feel like I am in the woods/mountains as a kid again experiencing them for the first time. Thank you for these trips!
These videos on old rainforests are so important. Thank you so much for making them.
I selfishly would love you to please visit more of the ones in Western Europe!
hes done a few videos on some ones in ireland and scotland and madeira
@@maxzeyyy I recall the Scotland one, and the Madeira one was excellent, I hadnât forgotten that one :) (hence my phrasing of âmoreâ) :) but I donât recall any in Ireland and I personally am in the south west uk so am interested in that too.
@@Toastybear1 yeah I always get Scotland and Ireland confused so I just put both dont mind me
He should do Western France/Brittany next!
It is a big feel being in the oldest mountain range on the planet. Such a beautiful land
*Oldest observable mountain range*... Not trying to be nitpicky... More so just some interesting geography trivia. The Oldest known mountain range is actually in Australia.... But what remains is buried underground so they can't even be called mountains anymore yet are still very much there... It's fascinating to think that someday the Appalachian Mountains will do the same and be reclaimed by the Earth's crust.
The Ozarks are the oldest mountain range in the US. The Appalachians are beautiful, though.
@@scottjs5207ok so technically their point still stands. đ whoâs going to talk about something thatâs not there above ground anymore?
I once went to a music festival in an area called Deerfields, just outside of Asheville. It had a deciduous rainforest microclimate. It rained constantly and it maintained a comfy temperature in the mid 70 degree Fahrenheit range, despite it being late July. Walking through the trails was like walking through a dreamscape. I've never seen so many different shades of green, Everything was covered in moss and dripping with different types of ferns and multi-colored lichens. The ground was so deeply covered in moss that it felt like a carpet that you could comfortably fall asleep on if it wasn't so wet. Everything looked like some illustration out of a book of fairytales. It looked like the type of place where you would see fairies and gnomes hiding in the trees. Seeing so much life layered upon more life almost gave the whole area a feeling of sentience. I really want to go back there again sometime because it was truly a magical experience.
Was it Equinox by chance? Deerfields is incredible.
@@weedian710 It was!
"Deciduous rainforest" doesn't make sense. It's a Warm Temperate Moist Forest in the Holdridge zone.
@@decrox13 Oh ok, thanks Mr. Trebek. I should have said Temperate Rainforest. Thank you for deeming me worthy enough to bestow me with a bit of your vest well of knowledge.
You are currently feeling a little bit frisky atm
There is a black shadowy thing that passed in front of the camera at 8:35 holy crap man they weren't playing when they said it was weird in the Appalachians lmao
Omg I seen it , you're right. That is so creepy
Yeah these mountains are spooky
I was hoping someone else noticed, too! So I'm not crazy! 8:33
I had to make sure Iâm not crazy and Iâm not the only one that caught that!
I saw it too. Went straight to the comments to make sure Iâm sane.
When my family moved to Charlotte, NC, from the North Shore of Oahu, HI as a middle schooler... I felt I'd lose the connection to nature I felt on the reef. The Appalachian mountains changed my mind and shaped my adolescence. Your videos capture the history, beauty, and awe that I hold dear. Thank you.
And if you want a trail buddy in Pisgah or elsewhere one day, let me know!
In North Georgia, the Cohutta wilderness has huge hemlocks completely covered in Moss. The area where the Conasauga river headwaters are (the most diverse river in North America), itâs literally a jungle. Iâve never seen so many ferns in my life. Literally growing on trees.
Please do a video on irelands rainforests! đ đźđȘ
Looks beautiful out there!
@@AidinRobbins it really is! Come to the Beara peninsula!
@@MusketeerTed I swear I saw someone cover it recently... Maybe Mossy Earth or one of the ecological reclamation groups?
Thereâs already a video about it look it up, just not from him
This man needs an award for his storytelling, facts, and especially his photography. I never thought there was a rainforest in the Appalachian mountains
My family comes from the Cataloochee Valley in GSMNP. My great great grandfather, W.G.B. Messer, helped settle Little Cataloochee. There are graves of my ancestors in those mountains. Those rainforests are a long lost home to me. Granddaddy Messer sold his land for pennies on the dollar to the federal government and moved out of the park to Haywood county, NC (Maggie Valley). He always said that the federal government shouldâve paid mountain folk more than they did for the land inside the park. Amazing history to me, this video brings makes me feel like I remember things I never experienced.
Thank you for sharing your story
Cataloochee js incredible. Very cool
So he was a sell out to the goverment?
I grew up in a holler in these mountains and cried while watching. Thank you for making this.
Truly a love letter to the incredible environments on the east coast. Not as immediately dramatic as the new mountains out west but still absolutely incredible
caught the upload just in time with my bowl of cinnamon toast crunch. gonna be a good day!
You've got it dialed đ€
You should eat healthier
@@johnadams3038 I don't think a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch is gonna kill him, people eat a lot worse, relax.
@@inaudibletune5934 It kills with time
@@johnadams3038 So does breathing air.
As the person who wrote a lot of the wikipedia article the first minutes were based on, and made one of the maps featured in this video, I am SO HAPPY this region is getting more appreciation and visibility!
Your videos are so special to me, I almost canât quite describe it but itâs almost nostalgic and makes me want to explore. Thanks Aiden for making such high quality videos.
If you are on CZcams long enough you'd know when you find one of them gems. This is channel surely one of them. Please never stop making videos Aidin.
I love this country. Such beauty, such history. I'm a North Carolinian myself, so I'll look into taking a trip out that way some time.
As someone who used to be able to wake up and see the summit of Mt. Mitchell every day I have to say you've done a wonderful job of capturing the majesty and magical nature of the Smokey Mountain forests. Being within them, breathing the air, looking up or down at expanses and quantities of life you can't imagine really stir up a sensation in your soul that is unlike anything else.
There's amazing things around every corner, from the purest quarts in the world to newly discovered mineral deposits and formations that don't exist elsewhere. The waters are always crisp, cold, and invigorating. The air is always refreshing. It's a place you never want to leave.
La ruta austral in Chile almost felt holistic after spending so much time in tropical Colombian rainforests, 12 years, but growing up in white and red pines in Michigan. This video gave me the same feeling I walking there for the first time. Thank you.
climbed Mt Le Conte in Tenneesee this spring.. rained non stop the entire hike. gave up on the rain jacket after 3 hours and just let myself get soaked.
showering and laying down at the cabin after felt like HEAVEN.
I live in east Tennessee. This is why I love this area! It's right next to these old forest areas and I can get to them within a short drive. I usually trek to Clingmans Dome or Mt. Mitchell at least once every summer. I am also an avid fisherwoman and where I live has many areas to enjoy this pastime. I just wish I had the money to buy a larger forested area to build a homestead. Yep, there are black bears in a lot of forested areas within a few miles of medium cities around here. Gotta keep your eyes open for them.
So crazy watching something like this for free.
This does such a great job of bringing home the central thesis that this region and ecosystem is special and precious.
It also demonstrates how no matter what some people might think nowadays, humanity is not and never has been seperate from nature. The constant crossovers between ecology, sociology, ethnology, etc in this video really show this deep interconnectednes.
And visually, I mean do i even have to say it? Breathtaking
The Appalachian people are just as wonderful as the Appalachian mountains
Metal detecting in these areas would reveal so many forgotten stories I am sure. Absolutely encapsulating video.
This is fantastic! As an NC resident, itâs nice to see our state get the recognition it deserves. If youâre in NC and covering unique forests, it would be cool if you did the Peat bog and pine Savannah forests of Coastal NC. You could surround it around the Venus Fly Trap which is found no where else except in a small area right outside of Wilmington NC.
in the least suggestive way possible, your videos make me feel things I didn't know I had in me
Omg yes, I mean of course there are cemeteries in these woods but that's something I never thought of and to see it reclaimed by nature was just breathtaking and sad because they have been forgotten.
As a Tennessean i love every chance i get to see those mountains. Fascinates me too that it existed before the triassic period!? Flippin wild.
Yesterday I returned from a vacation in Pennsylvania and after visiting towns, seeing Fallingwater, and hiking up mountains that are way taller than they look. I can confident say Appalachia is really beautiful and one day I hope I can visit these amazing rainforests as well.
More videos on Mountain ranges in the United States and Forests please. These are so relaxing and calming. Don't stress out yourself though!
Finally got the free time to actually watch and enjoy this piece of art. Had no idea you were from this area too, though to be fair I've only had a chance to watch a couple of your vids prior to this.
Phenomenal work, my dude. I'm 40 as of this year, and have spent about 36 of those years in the area, mostly between Buncombe, Haywood, Transylvania and Henderson Counties. I grew up running the rigelines of the Pisgah National Forest, walking the old logging roads on the slopes of Pisgah itself, rockhopping the many forks of streams and rivers that run down roads like 276, 215, and my home of 151. My family has been in various parts of NC since 1696. I celebrated my 21st birthday on the top of Mt. Mitchell, wrecked my first car on The Blue Ridge Parkway, scattered my father's ashes on Pisgah, watched the 2017 solar eclipse from the top of Devil's Courthouse, camped deep in the Yellow Gap area for a month when covid hit, dodging park rangers and the virus both. I've left twice, and come back in less than 2 years each time due to homesickness.
The only negative emotions I ever feel about this area are either due to some of the modern people here being so stuck behind the social/political times, and the remorse of knowing that my own blood ancestors more than likely played their part in pushing the natives out.
All that is just to say that you've done a phenomenal job capturing the beauty, the history, the connection between the land and the people that appreciate it. And I truly love this vid essay for that. I'm really glad the algorithm finally introduced me to your content just in time to catch this.
Thank you again. After a pretty lousy couple of weeks, I needed a calming voice to remind me why I keep going at my age with nothing else to show for it. It's the beauty of the forest, of my home. Plain and simple. I'm not a religious or spiritual man, but it's hard not to feel something mystical in these woods, especially when you get off the beaten path and find somewhere that signs of human activity are scarce. I think it's getting close to time to take another month off from my societal duties, tie some traps, and disappear deep into the forest once more time, just to feel again.
I too am always busy and always have something to do but I like to play these videos in the background of whatever I'm doing just to hear his voice is so calming and then when I do get a glimpse it's absolutely stunning video
I love finding old cars and homesteads in the wildernesses of Eastern Oregon! A lot of the early settlers in Eastern Oregon weren't able to get by in those harsh areas, so there are innumerable abandoned homesteads in the deep forests. Whole towns, molding and forgotten for over a hundred years. As a girl I used to love exploring the deep forests, and finding old diaries in the abandoned farms written by those early settlers. A true piece of history. A glimpse into their world.
Your Color Grades but ESPECIALLY your greens (obviously)... are beautiful.
Appalachia is insanely beautiful. Moved to North Carolina and was blown away the first time I went to the western part of the state.
Chills man, chills. I love how alive your video feels, the sounds of the wind blowing, the water flowing, and the simple and beautiful sounds of nature. It really compliments the message you're trying to send and I love it.
This is my absolute favorite channel rn. I binged all of your videos and I look forward to every upload. You do such an incredible job with everything.
Been supporting you for a while and your growth is insane man, you always inspire me!
I'm in NC not terribly far from the mountains and it's always so great to see some appreciation for our shared backyard. Our city recently updated the property rules regarding native species and I hope one day to own a small space and start reintroducing native plants and trees, even if it's just a tiny pocket.
Temperate rainforest are such underrated biomes, my personal favorite in terms of sheer beauty are Tongass Alaska and South Island NZ. Really cool and informative video!
The forests around here today are nowhere near as dark as they appear in this video. Loss of Eastern Hemlock changed a lot of that.
Hiking through the Appalachian Trail right now, itâs a breathtaking experience
I live by a temperature rain forest in the Pacific Northwest, and it is so beautiful. There is something so ancient about it. Ancient ferns, gigantic trees, moss hanging down in huge sheets. I love going hiking and exploring and filming it. We so have much wilderness. I really love the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness trails in the remote wilderness
You should check out the Florida hammocks, itâs basically a tropical forest with bromeliads, orchids, butterflies, one cycad species, and strangler figs, a tree from the Amazon. I also think they deserve some more awareness because of how most of it has been cleared away.
Fantastic video. I am enamored with the Appalachian mountains, they are my home, which I share with millions of vibrant and wonderful people. Thank you for showing the beauty that you see! It's so great to know that other people see it too. This world is magical, and these mountains are full of wonders! âŁïž
Found this channel through the Scottish rainforest vid (as I imagine many did) and I feel so blessed, like Iâve found content made specifically for me. Adored this video and canât wait to see what comes next â€
You do such a great job of capturing the essence and ambience of the rainforests and other wooded areas. The camera work, the distant birds, the sounds of rain hitting the leaves. It is definitely my happy place......and I'm not just saying that because I had a recent journey with Mother Ayehausca đ
As an Indian historian I'm impressed by the quality of that section of this video! Most discussions of east coast Indians just either pretend everyone disappeared from "disease" or ignores that and jumps straight to accusations of race faking and that whole topic. Speaking specifically on how Indian populations did not "shrink" but were pushed back by expansion from colonizers is a refreshingly accurate description compared to the norm of describing white settlers as expanding into a void left behind by Indians who died on their own, and I thank you for it. There's basically no actual historical evidence for communicable disease playing any significant role in the destruction of east coast Indian communities. Indian communities were forced out or destroyed by settler violence, either directly or indirectly (such as killing off all the game in an area, deforesting, poisoning water supplies with industrial runoff and sewage, etc). They even tried germ warfare with the smallpox blankets on multiple occasions, although it always resulted in failure (Indian medical standards tended to be superior to the European standards of the 18th century thanks to having better ideas of how to safely treat the sick compared to people who still believed in miasma theory). There's like one diary of some white guy claiming to have come across an empty Indian town and going "oh I guess they all died of smallpox!", and that's it. There's a ton of documentation about Indians dying from infected wounds caused by settler violence though, going back to Columbus's genocide of the Taino.
oh I should probably mention: These regions are almost certainly much more wild now than they were 400 years ago. Indian communities practiced forestry management and cultivation, along with maintaining the trails mentioned in the video. It's why there's early settler reports claiming America looked like a "park" (while falsely attributing that to God preparing a gift for them lol). There's also almost certainly fewer people living in Appalachia today than there were pre-colonization.
@@Jetsetlemming this is really interesting. after some quick google anywhere i can hear/read about this old forest cultivation?
I go hiking in the Smokies a couple times a year. Each hike will have a new fascination and appreciation. Thank you!
I can totally feel what your attraction is to water, green, trees, mountains, ... It speaks to me in a deep peacegiving way
Absolutely stunning video and presentation. You've definitely got me viewing my home landscape from a different perspective now!
hands down the best documentary of the Appalachian forest that I've ever watched. I live 5 minutes from Davidson river couldn't ask for a better place to live
Aidin if you haven't been to Cumberland Island off the coast of St. Mary's GA then you totally should! It's like you're in a completely different country! There's ruins of a mansion called Dungeness, Wild horses from an old Spanish ship, dolphins that swim in the marshes, sea turtles, etc. The list goes on and on. The history is insane! Plus it rains a lot...
This video is incredible. Iâm from Appalachia and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Showed it to my brother and he loved it too.
Having just recently visited the redwoods for my first time, I love how similar the fern carpet in this video of the Appalachians is to there. It reminds me of that foggy mossy serene place. The trees might be bigger out west, but this video shows no less beauty than what I saw. How could anyone stumble into such a place and want to cut it down? Iâll never understandâŠ
the smokies are my favorite place on earth, and watching this filled me with a longing and melancholy that is hard to describe. i want to live in these places so desperately.
I don't know why but I always get goosebumbs watching your videos. Not only is the quality of the video contributing to that, but also the stories that I often resonate with. Please keep up these amazing videos, you're doing really nicely!!!
I just wanted to share that I was incredibly touched by your video. Appalachia is such a unique environment and you perfectly captured the beauty of it in your film and the way you danced about the subject with your words. I love it. Your whole video gives me the wholesome, cozy vibe of an educational video in a classroom or local museum. Thank you!
I love your videos. Keep doing great job! It was actually your videos that changed the way I hike. I used to just go and blaze through the trail but now I try to find a rock to sit on and take it all in. Enjoy the scenery and even the small things around me.
I love how your love for the forest shines through every video you create. Thank you for making these fantastic documentaries! đ
I couldn't dream of a better ambassador for the mountains I call home. Thank you man, this was beautiful.
This was dope. Bear story gave me chills. Much respect â
Wonderful video and story, Aidin. Bravo! I live close to the Smoky Mountains and always have a sense of âIâm homeâ whenever I get to visit. Itâs a sense of relief and joy. I hope we, as a collective, never let anyone attempt to destroy it again.
It's such a thrill to see another posting from you, Aidin. You provide us with the most beautiful natural history lesson anyone could hope for; capturing and preserving the Earth's magnificense in such an artful way. Thank you again.
I think this is officially my favourite CZcams channel
Mine too! The scenery is always so beautiful and his voice is so calming sometimes I just let his videos play while I'm working in the background
as someone who lives in Chattanooga TN. I love to drive there each summer and fall
Aidin, your footage is simply incredible. Youâre an inspiration. Thank you
Everything about this video from the storytelling to the cinematography to the actual rainforest is absolutely beautiful
i am so deeply impressed by the way you research, shoot and edit, you are multitalented for real
Do a video on the El Yunque Rainforest in Puerto Rico, as a Puerto rican
Definitely interested in heading out there!
My wife and I spent a few years exploring the Appalachian Mountains around the Asheville area. We have many stories and found memories of our adventures. Your eloquent story telling and cinematic prowess was very emotional for meâŠ.thank you!!
This was absolutely beautiful to watch. I grew up in Lancaster, PA and have been wanting to explore the woods of my state and the Appalachians for quite some time now â€â€â€
I grew up in southern Appalachia and it's been so long since I've gotten to see those mountains
Thank you for giving me a small taste of home, I can't tell you how much it means to me right now
Watching your videos are always therapeutic to me and thanks for beautiful photography which was the first reason I started watching your videos. Also what a great choice of background score while you narrate your videos.
You are such a beautifully talented story teller. Im here for it often
We lived in appalachia for 3 years and some when I was a small child. I don't remember it well, but I do recall the gorgeous, haunting wilds, and the giant hearts of my little friends. I still have a pendant one of them gave me when my family moved away.
Every time I watch one of your Appalachian videos, it makes me want to go on a hike so bad! Thanks for your videos explaining what makes these mountains so special.
Incredible. This video touched me. Just absolutely incredible mate. The production value, the cinematography, and best of all, the nature. Good job lad.
hi come to Sri Lanka, you'll be amazed at what nature holds here. definitely worthy of making a docu
i'm from east-central KY in the Appalachian portion, and i absolutely love this part of the country. its plum full of natural beauty here, everywhere you look. i always thought it was special here, but this video really brings it home for me. Appalachia is magical, y'all, i can't even describe in words what this wild land is like. we don't have the temperate rain forest part, far as i know, but we do have big stretches of nothin but forest and mountain for miles and miles, dotted with little settlements and hollers tucked up where y'can't see em. in the western portion, it's a bit flatter, getting closer to the central portion of KY it starts to get real hilly, real fast, lol. there's so much wildlife and nature all around. so much better than honking horns, asphalt, sirens, screaming people, and buildings that blot out the sky. i'm going to start taking dashcam videos coming in and out of my holler, there's other creators doing that but, i think it's nice for people to see what kinda beauty we got all around us here, what our morning commute looks like every day and what a holler looks like, the anatomy of it, what sights you're liable to see here, and the real people who live there. its such a great region though, can't say enough good things about good ole Kentucky :)
because of this channel, I love rain forest and rain now. I have learned A lot from Aidin :)
These videos are such masterpieces and deserve way more recognition
As an NC native, these mountains is very near and dead to my heart. Particularly the Balsam Nature Trail on Mt. Mitchell. The weather and biosphere makes this place my favorite on the face of the earth.
Dude the end message with the bears and all at the end was beautiful.
Conclusion of the video was beautifully written, mixed with the music and the views and boom! got chills. Keep up the good work, you're amongst the great of YT to my eyes!
What a work ! Really appreciate
this is so surreal after i just get back from Pisgah area.. grew up taking trips up there and always marveled, especially in the summer, how much it makes me think of a rain forest.
Mount Mitchel on a misty morning looks like something straight out of a fairy tale.
Amazing work! Seeing a new video from you, it's like Christmas! Thank you for all you do. It can't be easy to make content like this. We are all thankful for you!