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 an excerpt from Disturbance which has been honored at several film festivals and aired on Montana PBS four times. You can view a 19-minute cut of the film here.

I’m finally posting some pics from the Yellowstone fire.  This fire burned slowly at first, but finally hit some lodgepole stands that hadn’t burned in ~150 years.  Once it hit that, it was pushed by 20 mph winds.  This is a significant stand replacement fire, but alas, lodgepole is adapted to this.  It’s the park visitors that aren’t.

Stand Replacement in Lodgepole - Yellowstone 2009

Huge flames in fire-adapted lodgepole.