Western settlement and market hunting decimated nearly all the big game species of the Great Plains. Nearly all of them have been restored, but the American Bison is still missing from the Great Plains. Help the National Wildlife Federation change this, and put bison back where they belong.

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Bison Restoration is not only possilbe, it is happening right now. Get involved with the National Wildlife Federation or the American Prairie Foundation.”

This video was produced by Conservation Media for National Wildlife Federation.

Building a home in a riparian area may be a dream come true for some, but we lose more than important bird habitat. You may just lose your home.

This film was produced by Conservation Media for Montana Audubon through a grant from TogetherGreen, an initiative of National Audubon and Toyota.

While watching this fun little film full of running, bouncing, and tumbling bighorn lambs, you can also learn how climate change may impact bighorn sheep and other larger herbivores. Produced for the Montana Conservation Science Institute.

Produced by Conservation Media for The Wolverine Foundation, this short film explores one of the most fascinating and least understood animals on the planet. This small, rare, and elusive creature may be able to kill a moose or fend a grizzly off a kill, but it faces serious threats such as climate change for which it is no match.

You can support scientific research by supporting The Wolverine Foundation. Go to www.WolverineFoundation.org to see how you can help.

This is a short web film produced for Montana Audubon addressing the impact oil & gas development has on sage grouse, a species recently warranted by the USFWS as worthy of protection under the Endangered Species Act. This film includes interviews with David Sibley, Dave Naugle, and Amy Cilimburg.

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Conservation Media completed this film for Sonoran Institute. It addresses the loss of one of the West’s most valuable assets, open space, which serves as a community’s agricultural base and wildlife habitat. Contact Sonoran Institute (www.SonoranInstitute.org) to see how you can become involved.

Disturbance, a film about about fire ecology and fire dependent species like the black-backed woodpecker, is a joint production of Conservation Media and Paintbrush Films. It has been honored at The International Wildlife Film Festival, the American Conservation Film Festival, and the Montana CINE International Film Festival. It also won a 2009 Telly Award.

This is the latest carbon-neutral export from the edit bay at Conservation Media. It took many months to get this one out, but it has arrived! We really like this piece and hope you do too. We have another, nearly completed piece for Montana Audubon which we’ll post here in the next few weeks. To learn more about habitat conservation in the the Madison Valley and Montana, go to Montana Audubon and Sun Ranch Institute.

This is a quick promo piece Conservation Media put together for an EPA video contest. The film recently won TWO Silver Telly Awards, for Nature/Environment and for Cinematography. It was a lot of fun to make and we were terribly lucky to catch not one, but two acts of wetland predation to show how all the players are connected. We mostly dissected an older relatively unused 10-minute film we made a few years back for Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. The new editing and shorter length work a lot better here. Enjoy and please leave comments.