Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Announcing the PNW Conservation Film Festival - Apr 17, 2015

Just got word that there's a Conservation Film Fest coming up soon at the UW!
Here's the Facebook page: http://bit.ly/PNWFF
April 17, 5pm, Kane Hall at UW,
 $10 donation at the door. Here's the program:

Black Ice (Drilling for oil in the Russian Arctic) When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise set sail to protest the first ever oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, none of the people on board could have known what was coming to their lives.

Return of the River (Removal of the Elwha dams on the Olympic Peninsula) Over 100 years ago, dams were built on the Elwha River to provide electricity for the Northern Olympic Peninsula. When the dams went up, the salmon, the life sustainer for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, the salmon could not. See the inspiring story of how the dams came down.

Gwich'in Women Speak (Gwich’in Women talk about their lives and their dependence on Arctic nature). The Gwich’in People have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years. Their women talk about the importance of the Arctic Coastal Plain and nature is to their lives.

If Wilderness Could SpeakOlympic Wilderness (features the sights & sounds of Olympic National Park) This films shows what you can see, hear, and experience in Olympic National Park wilderness.

The Meaning of Wild (shows the values & beauty of the Tongass wilderness in SE Alaska) The Tongass National Forest runs up most of the SE Alaska panhandle. You see its coastal border from the “Inside Passage.”