Bernheim employees building a road using the only mechanized vehicle they had<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe benefit of this program to prepare the forest for visitors of the future was enormous. In just a few short months, the additional labor available at the forest far exceeded what could be performed in half a dozen years by the regular workforce. Truly a wonderful opportunity, and then it ended. Not because of the expense to either the foundation or the RFC or the quality of the work being performed. It came to an end due to the uneasiness of one man. A resident of Louisville, and the owner of some land near the Jim Beam Distillery, he was concerned that having this many men working so close to his land was troubling. He made his concerns known to two members of the Bernheim Foundation board and, to appease him, the program came to an end. The men from Municipal Relief bureau were sent off to other projects elsewhere, the proposed camp was abandoned, and the six employees at the forest went back to their usual duties.<\/p>\n
The development of the forest was impacted but went forward. The forest needed time for the land to heal from years of abuse from logging and the trees to needed to mature. The funding for major projects like the construction of the roads to the fire tower and to Guerrilla Hollow, the development of the arboretum, and the impoundment of Lake Nevin became available after the death of Mr Bernheim in 1945. The forest would open to the public five years later. An opportunity to speed the development of the arboretum and forest was missed, but the vision of Isaac W. Bernheim to create a place where everyone was invited \u201cTo re-create their lives in the enjoyment of nature and the many blessings she gives \u2026 in the park I have dedicated to the use of the people\u201d moved on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many people wonder if Bernheim Forest benefitted from the New Deal programs that were implemented to get America\u2019s economy back on track during the Great Depression. The Bernheim Foundation was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173,847,472,512],"tags":[2273,2308,2309,2310,2311,418,2312,2313,2314],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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