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 can view a small version of the film here for faster loading:

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 the background. Snowpack in these mountains is below
50% of normal this year.

Below, a snowberry clearwing moth (Hemaris affinis), a day-flying moth
that mimics bumble bees to deter predation. Unlike bumble bees,
however, this moth can hover at flowers.
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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.

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.

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 at www.saboranch.com.  I’ll soon post sequences as I get them edited.