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.

Conservation Media is pleased to announce that we have picked up two, count ‘em, two Merit Awards from the 34th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, AND two Finalist Designations! There may be more Official Selections to come!

Our film Crossroads, embedded below, picked up a Merit Award for Conservation Message and a Merit Award for Made in Montana film, the home of the long-running, prestigious film festival.

More to come!

Conservation Media is happy to announce that our film Crossroads is a Finalist in the Public Service Announcement category at the 34th International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana this May.

If you haven’t seen the film, you can see it below:

Here is a quick sample from an outing last week.

Under the VIDEO tab, you can see our completed, award-winning films.

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.

On December 13th, 2010, the US Fish & Wildlife Service published a long-awaited report on the potential listing of the wolverine (Gulo gulo) under the Endangered Species Act.

Rare by nature, the 30lb (14kg) wolverine has achieved mythical status for its ability to kill moose hindered by deep snow and to drive wolves and grizzly bears from their kills. Scavenging and hunting, wolverines roam the high country where they depend on deep snowpack for denning. In fact, persistence of snowpack into late April is the greatest predictor of their occurrence, something that is measurably shifting due to climate change.

The USFWS report finds that protection under the Endangered Species Act is indeed warranted for the wolverine, but so great is the backlog of imperiled species, and so poor is the funding that protection for the wolverine must be deferred until the USFWS can deal properly with other priority species.

Although the report simultaneously acknowledges the imperiled status of the species and denies it protection, the report is at least significant in that it acknowledges that climate change impacts to habitat and connectivity are serious and reason to give rare and declining species like the wolverine federal protection.

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.

We are pleased to announce that our short films have picked up two more Official Selections, and in the same festival no less! Open Space and Crossroads both made the cut at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival this year. We plan on attending, so we’ll see you there!

The Northern Rockies are experiencing one of the largest pine white (Neophasia menapia) irruptions in decades. Pine trees, mostly ponderosas, are filled with billions of white butterflies.

Here is a quick little sequence from our ramblings down along the creek this week. The sequence was shot using a Canon 7D and a newly constructed dolly that doubles as a solar panel support. Enjoy