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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Fifty Two Playful Bucks Rough Housing · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Four Stories.
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  Speaker 2: A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping
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  Speaker 2: trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 2: over 33 years. I am the poet in the forest,
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  Speaker 2: a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s. It's
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  Speaker 2: grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 2: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. At the base
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  Speaker 2: of Heartbreak Hill sits a sign that reads, RAINBOW FOREST. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations.
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  Speaker 2: Long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 2: around this beautiful lake, slow-moving stream, flatland swamps, and array
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  Speaker 2: of natural animals, there were families and business owners who
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  Speaker 2: are said to have raced into this area for the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.
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  Speaker 2: Those before me either forgot to write about it or
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  Speaker 2: it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the forest. It's one of the greatest
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  Speaker 3: gifts that we've been blessed with being inside this forest.
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  Speaker 3: I remember 34 years ago, my daughter and I, we
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  Speaker 3: would see all of these signs that said, watch out
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  Speaker 3: for the deer. You've seen them before, the yellow ones.
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  Speaker 3: And she would always ask me, why do they have
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  Speaker 3: those signs up? There are no deer here. We never
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  Speaker 3: see deer. And she was absolutely right, which was one
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  Speaker 3: of the major inspirations behind me taking the time to
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  Speaker 3: work with the Forest Service as well as the Boy
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  Speaker 3: Scouts to plant 1,700 trees. I wanted to make this
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  Speaker 3: 100% as natural as can be. We fought a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fights with a lot of people that don't believe
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  Speaker 3: in the same vision that we had at that moment.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to save the deer. If you knew
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  Speaker 3: how many times people came after me because they knew
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  Speaker 3: that I was trying to keep the deer here, whatever
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  Speaker 3: deer were available. One here, maybe in six months or so,
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  Speaker 3: we'd find another deer. You may never see him again
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  Speaker 3: for another couple of years. People were very angry with
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  Speaker 3: me because I was trying to bring a lot of
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  Speaker 3: attention to the natural beauty of this land, you know,
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  Speaker 3: before we got here. And it's well written in my
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  Speaker 3: journals on how people said things to me that really
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  Speaker 3: hurt me deeply, but it didn't stop me from planting
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  Speaker 3: the 1700 trees and to work with the National Forest
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  Speaker 3: Service as well as the Boy Scouts. And as I
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  Speaker 3: make my way through this forest today, One of the
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  Speaker 3: most beautiful, beautiful photographs on the planet. And maybe I'm
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  Speaker 3: just too close to the roots of this forest in
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  Speaker 3: the way that there were two bucks that were just playing.
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  Speaker 3: There was nothing evil about it. It's what bucks do
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  Speaker 3: when they've got six points on those antlers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The battle of the six points. But it wasn't a battle.
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  Speaker 3: They were playing together. mating season is right around the corner.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to happen. The males are going to try
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  Speaker 3: to dominate the other males, but these deer were just plain.
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  Speaker 3: getting themselves locked up. And I kept thinking, my God,
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  Speaker 3: what happens if you can't disconnect the way that you're
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  Speaker 3: moving your shoulders, your back legs, your front legs, standing
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  Speaker 3: up and then looking at each other and hitting each
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  Speaker 3: other again. You know, people might think that's just too
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  Speaker 3: wild for me. That's not my kind of lifestyle. Well,
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  Speaker 3: in this forest, it's natural, just as natural as putting
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  Speaker 3: six inch seedlings in the ground with this vision of
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  Speaker 3: one day, my beautiful daughter, the deer will come. And
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  Speaker 3: one day, they did. And all of those conversations that
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  Speaker 3: those people openly felt that they needed to share with
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  Speaker 3: me about how evil I was to create something so
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  Speaker 3: natural when they're fighting like hell to look so Home
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  Speaker 3: Depot and Lowe's, it just goes away when you see
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  Speaker 3: nature play. And that's what they were doing this morning.
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  Speaker 3: A gift from the forest.