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 are featuring clips from the documentary American Values, American Wilderness as the High Plains Films Clip of the Week. Click on the image to play and see filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis’ comments on the clip below.
This clip is from the introduction to the film, AMERICAN VALUES, AMERICAN WILDERNESS, Directed by Chris Barns and narrated by Christopher Reeve. It features a historic audio recording of President Johnson speaking at the signing of the Wilderness Act in 1964. More about the documentary at www.highplainsfilms.org
Enjoyed this. Happy to forward it via our Moab Utah channels, as Canyonlands National Park shares that historic year, 1964, albeit September 12th, to be signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Public Law 88-590, establishing Canyonlands National Park. And we have Bates Wilson, the Arches National Monumnet superintendent to thank for his lobbying efforts. Then, Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall visited in 1961 ane commenced lobbying on Capitol Hill.