Environmental Shorts

Films about those studying, protecting, and restoring the world in which we live.

  • 90 minutes
  • Monograph: Hank Hershey

    7:05 • United States

    Fisheries biologist and artist, Hank Hershey, has devoted his life to wildlife and nature as his work merges art and science to educate and preserve. The opinions stated here do not represent The Army Corps of Engineers.

     

    Alabama Roots

    Directed by Kaleb Manske, Hannah Schoettmer

    18:39 • United States

    Travel across Alabama to rediscover native plants and meet passionate plant people who are trying to preserve the last vestiges of Alabama’s unprecedented botanical biodiversity.

     

    The Conscience Files

    Directed by Brian Bolster

    13:30 • United States

    Eavesdrop on the letters from those who have taken "souvenirs" from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park - and lived to regret it.

     

    Saving Seagrass

    Directed by Robert Boyd

    14:53 • United States

    Dive underwater to discover the world of seagrass, a vital element of aquatic health in the Mobile Bay.

     

    Ngarridurndeng Kured (We Going Home Now)

    Directed by Emma Masters, Dean Munuggullumurr Yibarbuk

    18:00 • Australia

    In the heart of Kuwarddewardde, meet the Indigenous Fire Rangers who merge traditional practices and western science to guard against devastating wildfires and support the return of Binninj Nawarddeken to their traditional homelands.

     

    Where We Once Roamed

    Directed by Ruthie Weeks, Madee Sabatier

    14:52 • United States

    After re-releasing free-roaming buffalo to their native lands, the Blackfeet Nation has set off on an unprecedented path towards cultural and spiritual renewal of their people, the land, and the buffalo species.

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