You-View Ecology
Running the Gauntlet
From the PBS series "Nature", a documentary on the ecology of Columbia River dams, salmon, and the hatchery programs that have, after decades of costly and often convoluted efforts, failed to stabilize and sustain the well-being of local fishery economies and the associated river ecosystems.
Go to link: http://video.pbs.org/video/1891112523
Salmon Are Sacred
A 14-minute documentary about sea-based fish farms in British Columbia and the serious threat they pose to the health of wild salmon runs in the Strait of Georgia and beyond; a potentially irreparable catastrophe that could undermine the local economy, cultural heritage and environmental stability of a whole region.
Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vekW4FgXefo&NR=1
For an in-depth overview of the Fish Farm Controversy, visit Salmon Confidential and view the full-length documentary by Twyla Roscovich @https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/salmon-confidential/
To learn more about a new, grassroots initiative to protect and sustain wild BC salmon, visit the website of Dr. Alexandra Morton @http://www.alexandramorton.ca/..
Local Hero Cascadian: Ruth Kirk
Cascadia is rich in local heroes, past and present, who exemplify through their stories and deeds the power of place that we call the bioregion. Men and women, of indigenous and settler heritage, who are not revered in the glaring spotlight of modern celebrity, but whom we come to cherish as neighbors or distant relations through the life-giving land-base we share. Among them the likes of Ruth Kirk: archeologist, naturalist, and author of some 30 books, among them her final project which revisits the archeological dig of the Ozette whaling village in the land of the Makah Nation on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. Story by Devon Fredricksen at High Country News.
Go to link: //www.hcn.org/issues/45.16/ruth-kirk-pioneering-guidebook-author
For information on the Ozette Whaling Village and Makah Museum, visit the Makah Tribe website at: http://makahmuseum.com/about/ozette-archaeological-site/
Block 486: Inland Temperate Rainforest
A 30-minute film by Richard Olak documents with quiet, unassuming presence the pending fate of 1000 year-old western cedar giants and their ancient rainforest ecosystem near the logging town of Dome Creek, British Columbia, some 600 miles from the Pacific coast. In the process Olak poignantly conveys the complex fabric of local ecology and its delicately woven threads of economy, community, natural evolution, and transcendent intangibles.
Go to link: http://vimeo.com/8161930
Update:"Block 486" was finally granted government protection after Dome Creek and its ancient forest were featured in a DVD that was presented to communities and universities throughout BC, and after a coalition of local groups created the associated Ancient Forest Interpretive Trail featuring some of the largest known ancient cedar trees within the Rainforest Conservation Corridor. This was the first time in the history of Robson Valley that a block approved for cutting was instead granted protection.The Ancient Forest Interpretive Trail attracts 10-15,000 visitors each year, bringing some $1-2 million into the local economy annually.
Eyes And Ears On The Land And Sea
A 12-minute documentary about the "Guardian Watchmen", a coalition of First Nation tribes that monitors the northern and central coast of British Columbia in an effort to protect ecological health in the spirit of time-honored science and wisdom as sustained by ancestral heritage. Part of "Calling From The Coast", an extensive video project and online library that aims to promote better understanding and preservation of the region's rich, complex ecosystem. Produced and presented by Twyla Roscovich and Paul Ross.
Go to link: https://vimeo.com/8317295
Wild Huckleberry Harvesting
From Northwest Treaty Tribes, an article and video about how the Tulalip Mountain Camp is introducing a younger generation to the important role that wild huckleberry harvests play in the traditional culture of First Nations throughout the region.
Go to link: https://nwtreatytribes.org/tulalip-preserves-huckleberry-resource/
No School Left Behind: Triangle Lake OR
May 2013: New calls for a moratorium on aerial spraying after studies detect two herbicides in the urine of Triangle Lake residents west of Eugene OR. From Scott Learn at Oregon Live..
Below, Slash and Burn: Triangle Lake OR, 2008. From Tim Lewis & Micah L. Griffin at Picture Eugene on You Tube:
David Suzuki
In a speech before a CCPA fundraiser in Vancouver BC on February 23, 2006, the environmental activist critiques the scientific data and policy-making culture that justifies projects of systematic economic growth while remaining blind to environmental degradation and the limits of the biosphere. Part 5 of 6 available on You Tube.
Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-JB2Nw5a80&feature=relmfu
Dr. Daniel Pauly
The esteemed marine biologist and fishery expert at the University of British Columbia on the need to respond comprehensively and with urgency when an environmental problem looms large and its causes remain unclear.
Go to link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_j16YQQgQ
Waste In British Columbia Logging
From the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 2009.