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In this episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Hannah Druckenmiller, a new fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). This is the second part of a two-part series that introduces new RFF fellows, and Druckenmiller is another welcome addition to RFF and to Resources Radio. Druckenmiller discusses her fascinating paper that estimates the value of forests\u2014not just in the marketplace, but for society. She and Raimi also talk about a project she\u2019s involved in that\u2019s using millions of photographs from the 1950s through the 1990s to construct what are essentially satellite images of the developing world, but from before satellite images even existed.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cEstimating an Economic and Social Value for Healthy Forests: Evidence from Tree Mortality in the American West\u201d by Hannah Druckenmiller; https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f60e3b9a38e910134a8aeab/t/5fb6df90721aae50818579d2/1605820322700/JMP_11.19.2020.pdf\n\n\u201cMigrations\u201d by Charlotte McConaghy; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250204028\n\n\u201cThe Lost Canyon Under Lake Powell\u201d by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/16/the-lost-canyon-under-lake-powell