The Northern Rockies are experiencing one of the largest pine white (Neophasia menapia) eruptions 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

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.

Conservation Media just received word that our film Disturbance, about fire ecology and politics in the northern Rockies, was viewed by another 4,000 people at the American Conservation Film Festival this fall. We were honored to have our film open the festival this year, and hope that we sparked another 4,000 discussions about the important role fire plays in maintaining biodiversity in the northern Rocky Mountains.

You can watch the 30 second trailer for Disturbance here.