Eternally Wild

Eternally wild--our hope, our prayer, our task.

Eternally Wild from California Trout on Vimeo.

Eternally Wild is a short film about California’s iconic Smith River, its steelhead, its history and its current plight.

Here there are no dams, no wretched clear-cut blocks, no mitigating hatcheries. Instead... ancient forest, iconic redwoods and a powerful symbol of freedom -- THE SMITH.

But 4,000 acres of the pristine North Fork are threatened by a giant toxic nickel mine operation.

The Red Flat Nickel Corporation has applied to sink 59 drill holes that would pave the way for one of the largest nickel mines in the Western United States. The film, by Keith Brauneis Productions and California Trout, examines current conditions and discusses future threats and asks just how much protection is enough?

Is there such a thing as wilderness anymore?

Author Jason Mark looks for wilderness in the age of man and finds it in unexpected places.

By: Jaymi Heimbuch

December 27, 2015, 10:03 a.m.

Recently I sat down with a book that within a chapter or two had me reanalyzing that every opinion I hold about what nature is, what wilderness is and what we can, can't, should and shouldn't do to our planet. This book is "Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man" by Jason Mark.

To most conservationists, there's nothing more sacred than wilderness and no act more honorable than to preserve and protect it. But what exactly is wilderness? Is there a way to use it that is of benefit to both humans and the environment? Mark goes looking for answers, searching out any remnants of untouched wilderness, exploring the various sides of controversial projects that help or hinder the health of an ecosystem, unraveling this oddly complicated relationship we have with trying to micromanage wilderness in an effort to perpetuate it and celebrating wilderness's wily ability to escape even our most valiant efforts to contain it.

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Spatsizi by Todd Moen -- British Columbia Fishing

If you're a good boy, and save up your money, you might go to heaven some day.

Primordial

Primordial ---- Yellowstone / Grand Tetons from Voortex Productions on Vimeo.

The Brook Trout of Minipi

It doesn't get any better than this. My thanks to Moldy Chum for unearthing this gem. Lee Wulff, Curt Gowdy, a still-unspoiled wilderness, and big, virgin Brook Trout. I recommend you watch the whole thing. Lee Wulff working to hook a short-striking fish on a big skater is worth the price of admission. A skater he tied by hand right there. I'm telling you, it doesn't get any better than this.

Kayaking the Great Bear, a Search for Wilderness

They find it...for now.

Photo by Ian McAllister

Three friends kayak into the Great Bear rainforest in northern British Columbia--the largest temperate rainforest in the world. They know that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will be routed through the Great Bear's heart, carrying bitumen from Alberta's tar sands, and they want to see for themselves what is at risk.

Now see for yourself.