Sierra Club
Community members shared in good food and company at an out-of-doors Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic of Our Time screening, August 27. By filmmakers Ann & Steve Dunsky, the Emmy award winning and American Conservation Film Society selection (History & Heroes, 2011), Green Fire was the first full-length, high-definition film made about the legendary environmentalist. The film also explores the roots of the Sierra Club! Explore, Enjoy, Protect!
Produced through a joint partnership of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Center for Humans and Nature, and the US Forest Service, the movie "challenges viewers to contemplate their own relationship with the land community". Prominent attendees included membership of St. Cajetan Catholic Church and co-producer Dave Steinke.
“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.” -- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Thanks be to Sierra Club intern Colin Martin, hosts Bryce Carter, Chris Applegate; Sierra Club Coalition Team Leader Ashley McFarland; and Beyond Coal's Western Regional Senior Organizing Manager, Roger Singer.
The American Conservation Film Festival will screen two fine films a week from now! Please click HERE for more information.