Film in the West
Clip of the Week: The Value of Wilderness
By Doug Hawes-Davis, High Plains Films, 8-11-09
Editor’s note: With all the buzz surrounding big “W” wilderness the last few weeks, (link opens chronology of four years of NewWest.Net coverage) spurred by Sen. Jon Tester’s new forest legislation and the languishing Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, we thought this week’s Clip of the Week selection from High Plains Films, appropriate. Click on the image to play and see filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis’ comments on the clip below.
This clip is the television trailer for the PBS documentary, AMERICAN VALUES, AMERICAN WILDERNESS, directed by Chris Barns and produced and edited by High Plains Films. Given the recent debate over Montana Wilderness in the news and the U.S. Congress, we thought we should post a few clips from our work on the subject. The documentary is narrated by Christopher Reeve and was one of his last on-camera appearances. Reeve was a strong supporter of Wilderness and environmental causes in general. The trailer includes camera work by Doug Hawes-Davis, Ken Furrow and Dru Carr. The music featured in the trailer is from the original score by Ned Mudd. Much of the music from the score is available for free download from www.highplainsfilms.org.
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In the future, many parts of our country will be a mirrow image of Germany--about the size of Texas--with about 90 million humans. "Urbanized" Germany is a place where one is never out of sight of a human modified landscape--with the exception of hiking above timberline in the Alps. And even in the Alps, where hundreds visit on a daily basis--with steps carved into the mountain side to assist the hikers who scan the mountain meadows hoping to see a "wild" milk cow or two.