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Green Fire
media tools change the climate, and shape the debate.
"More
than any other resource we have, the video helped us to make this a national
issue, with the public, congress, and media. The video Green Fire produced
on restoring Northwest salmon has enabled us to communicate in a very
compelling, engaging, and direct way with people all over the country."
- Kathy Crist, National Field Director, Save Our Wild Salmon Campaign
on "Bringing Back the Salmon."
"Beyond
Borders: Wildlands of the Northern Rockies" helped the Alliance for
the Wild Rockies propel the theory of conservation biology from obscurity
and radicalism to a viable, and now standard, model for bioregional-based
wilderness protection. 6,000 copies of this enduring program are steadily
building support for protecting wildlife such as grizzlies and wolves
by means of linking critical habitat for a large, contiguous network.
In
the mid-1990s two Green Fire videos: "Logs, Lies, and Videotape"
and "Troubled Waters" featured never before seen footage that
exposed the clearcutting and mismanagement of national forests. This disturbing
footage along with images showing citizen outrage at the rollback of environmental
laws was widely distributed to the public, media, and policymakers and
helped mobilize public outcry. 130 organizations across the country enlisted
tens of thousands of individuals to demand environmental regulations be
upheld.
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