The Northern Forest is a region stretching from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, including parts of four states and southern Canada. It is 30 million acres of forest with roughly 1 million people. Laura Tam is a former program associate with the Northern Forest Center, and the author of their book, ?At Home in the Northern Forest,? which explores the Forest?s identity in the words of its residents. www.northernforest.org
This interview originally aired in June of 2001.