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New Documentary on Aldo Leopold to Appear in WNC

Friday, February 24th, 2012

The public is invited to see the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy. The movie, titled Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time, will be shown at four locations across western North Carolina in mid-March.

Green Fire shares highlights from Leopold’s extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold's vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world, highlighting modern projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action in a multitude of ways.

Green Fire will be shown on the following days and locations:

* March 15, 6 p.m.: Sylva, N.C., Jackson County Public Library, Community Room

* March 16, 6:30 p.m.: Asheville, N.C., University of North Carolina-Asheville, Highsmith University Union Grotto

* March 17, 6 p.m.: Crossnore, N.C., Crossnore Forestry Training Facility, Main Cafeteria

* March 21, 8 p.m.: Swannanoa, N.C., Warren Wilson College, Canon Lounge

Curt Meine, the film’s on-screen guide, is scheduled to attend all four showings. Meine’s doctoral dissertation was a biography of Aldo Leopold, published as Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work.

Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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USFS, Partners, to Premiere New Documentary on Aldo Leopold

Monday, February 7th, 2011

The U.S. Forest Service has partnered with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Center for Humans and Nature in the first feature-length, high-definition documentary about the legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold.

The film “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time” will premiere on Saturday, Feb. 5, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M.

“Leopold’s life explorations and vision in the first half of the 20th century are still influencing our agency over 100 years later,” said Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell. “Leopold’s conservation mission of connecting people to the land is vitally important today and is an inspiration for our future.”

Leopold’s Forest Service career started on the Apache National Forest in Arizona. He is the author of “A Sand County Almanac”, published posthumously in 1949. In recent decades, it has become a catalyst for ecological restoration and community-based conservation.

Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and outdoor enthusiast, and is considered by many as the father of wildlife management and of the United States’ wilderness system.

Here's a trailer from the film:

Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time from Jeannine Richards on Vimeo.