Since 2015, the Blue Mountain Land Trust has partnered with the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) to bring you the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. This event celebrates the beauty and wonder of our natural world and inspires audiences everywhere to take action to protect it.

Here are a few favorite films of the 2021 Wild & Scenic Film Festival that directly relate to our conservation work.

Common Ground (10 minutes)

Conservation isn’t always the common thread between the tribes, ranchers, and government. This film shows how water can bring opposing interests towards finding a Common Ground.

From Kurils with Love (24 minutes)

Vladimir, a scrappy but aging Russian marine mammal biologist, is on a mission to help fulfill his quest to understand and protect the Kuril Islands before his age fails him.

Here We Stand (11 minutes)

For generations, conservation has been about keeping people from places. Now, Save the Redwoods League and Teresa Baker ask what it would look like for conservation to include all people, even those that normally are in the margins.