A free screening of Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, will be held on Thursday, January 26th, from 6:00-8:00p.m. in the Creative Arts Building, Room 127, on the Lassen Community College campus. The film has played for sold out audiences in venues across the country and will be featured along with an exhibit of artists’ interpretations of our local landscapes, curated by the Lassen County Arts Council, and a reflective discussion on what our local landscapes mean to our community will follow the screening.
Green Fire filmmakers Steve and Ann Dunsky will attend and participate in the discussion. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsors of the event include the Lassen National Forest, Lassen Land and Trails Trust, Lassen County Arts Council and Lassen Community College.
Green Fire is a production of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Center for Humans and Nature. The film explores Leopold’s life in the early part of the twentieth century and the many ways his land ethic idea continues to be applied all over the world today. Although probably best known as the author of the conservation classic A Sand County Almanac, Leopold is also renowned for his work as an educator, philosopher, forester, ecologist, and wilderness advocate. Green Fire shares highlights from Leopold’s life and extraordinary career, explaining how he helped shaped conservation in the twentieth century and continues to inspire people today.
“Aldo Leopold’s legacy lives on today in the work of people and organizations across the nation and around the world,” said Aldo Leopold Foundation Executive Director Buddy Huffaker. “What is exciting about Green Fire is that it is more than just a documentary about Aldo Leopold; it also explores the influence his ideas have had in shaping the conservation movement as we know it today by highlighting some really inspiring people and organizations doing great work to connect people and the natural world in ways that even Leopold might not have imagined.”
The Aldo Leopold Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization based in Baraboo, Wisconsin, has been distributing the film to community screeners. The foundation’s mission is to inspire an ethical relationship between people and land through the legacy of Aldo Leopold, who regarded a land ethic as a product of social evolution. As Leopold explained, “Nothing so important as an ethic is ever written. It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.”
“This is a wonderful opportunity to engage in a dialogue as a community,” said Heidi Perry-McCourt, Lassen National Forest Public Affairs Officer. “We hope everyone who loves our forests, streams, rivers, and working agricultural landscape here in northeastern California will come see the film and spend some time with all of the partners presenting the film to explore what’s important to us to conserve.”
For more information about the event, please contact Perry-McCourt at 530-252-6604 or Jessica Gibbs, Outreach Coordinator at Lassen Land and Trails Trust, at 530-257-3252.
