Post Tagged with: "agriculture"

USDA’s Sage-grouse Initiative is online!

This is the first of five videos that Conservation Media produced for the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. NRCS’s Sage-grouse Initiative is a ground-breaking innovation in solving landscape scale conservation issues, by harnessing the power of rancher-driven land stewardship across eleven western states. Sustainable ranching is good for the land [...]

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Crossroads – featuring David Allen Sibley

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. You [...]

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Weekly Photos from Conservation Media: Pronghorn, Bumble Bee Mimics, and More

Weekly Photos from Conservation Media: Pronghorn, Bumble Bee Mimics, and More

We caught a fleeting glimpse of these incredibly fast pronghorns out in the Big Hole Valley. A late spring skif of snow blankets the foothills. This valley will soon be green, and just as quickly turn brown. A red-tailed hawk surveys the landscape for prey, with the Bitteroot Mountains in [...]

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Open Space (7:35)

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.

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Sonoran Institute Film – Demo (2:44)

This is a quick demo fresh out of the timeline. I’m putting together a film for the Sonoran Institute on the value of open lands in the American West. This demo contains a portion of a single interview. I’ll post more exports this week.

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Cows for Conservation

I just returned from interviewing Jenny Sabo of Sabo Ranch in Harrison, MT.  This interview will be part of the Sonoran Institute Film.  She and her family live completely off the grid, and raise all their own food.  They were very welcoming and accommodating.  You can check out their website [...]

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