Topic
Environment
45 to explore, 1 One Good Story Project film, 2 subtopic guides and 42 curated resources, on the theme of environment.
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Documentaries
Environment
The Call of the Swamp, Bird-Voiced Tree Frog
2023
The Call of the Swamp follows scientists from the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center into the bottomland swamps of southern…
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Environment
Celebrating Mendocino Coho Returns
2025
This film runs four minutes and went up on the Trout Unlimited channel on April 2, 2025. Its published description says coho…
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Environment
Giants Rising
2024
Giants Rising is a documentary about the coast redwoods of California and the people working to understand and protect them. Lisa Landers…
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Environment
Can you save a glacier with wool?
2026
Swedish adventurer Oskar Kihlborg, the first Swede to summit Everest, hauls a huge wool blanket up Kebnekaise, Sweden’s highest mountain, to see…
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Books
Environment
Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
by Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth
Wading Right In walks us through the kinds of wetland that drivers pass by without noticing, from floodplain forests to fens and…
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Environment
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
by Tara Lohan
Four dams came off the Klamath River in California and Oregon, and Tara Lohan's Undammed follows what happened to the river afterward.…
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Environment
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
The Wild Trees is Richard Preston's account of the small group of botanists and amateur naturalists who worked out how to climb…
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Environment
The Once and Future Forest: California’s Iconic Redwoods
by Save the Redwoods League
The Once and Future Forest is a book containing five commissioned essays on California's redwood forests, published by Heyday for the one-hundredth…
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Environment
Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals
by Lorin Lindner
Lorin Lindner is a clinical psychologist who spent years counseling homeless veterans in Los Angeles while also taking in parrots whose owners…
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Environment
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass is a collection of essays by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a plant ecologist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.…
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Organizations
Environment
National Great Rivers Research and Education Center
East Alton, Illinois
The National Great Rivers Research and Education Center sits at One Confluence Way in East Alton, Illinois, and is affiliated with the…
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Environment
Route 3 Films
St. Louis, Missouri
Route 3 Films is a video production company in St. Louis. It filmed The Call of the Swamp with the National Great…
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Environment
Trout Unlimited
United States, with the coho work on the north coast of California.
Trout Unlimited was started by anglers and has been a fishing conservation group since 1959. Good News Network named the group in…
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Environment
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
California.
This is California's state wildlife agency. Its About page names programs from Free Fishing Days to the California Natural Diversity Database, and…
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Environment
Yurok Tribe
Klamath Office, 190 Klamath Blvd, Klamath, California, with further offices in Eureka and Weitchpec
The Yurok Tribe states that it is the largest Tribe in California, with more than 5,000 enrolled members and more than 200…
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Environment
Cultural Fire Management Council
Yurok Reservation, northern California
The Cultural Fire Management Council is a community based non-profit organization working on fire use and cultural resource management. Its work is…
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Environment
Mendocino Land Trust
435 N. Main Street, Suite B, Fort Bragg, California
Mendocino Land Trust works on the Mendocino coast of northern California, combining land conservation with getting people onto that land. Its four…
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Environment
Pacific Forest Trust
1001-A O'Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, California
Pacific Forest Trust works with private forest owners, not around them, and builds economic reasons for those owners to keep their land…
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Environment
Sempervirens Fund
Los Altos, California
Sempervirens Fund works on a single range of forest, the coast redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It describes itself as California’s…
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Environment
Save the Redwoods League
220 Montgomery St, Suite 350, San Francisco, California
Save the Redwoods League works across the whole California redwood range, on both coast redwood and giant sequoia forests. Its own description…
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Changemakers
Environment
Jessica Mohlman
Wildlife ecologist
Mohlman works with an amphibian almost nobody sees. The bird-voiced treefrog is a small frog that whistles like a bird, and she…
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Environment
John Crawford
Principal Scientist and Terrestrial Wildlife Ecologist, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center
Crawford's research looks at what habitat alteration and a changing climate do to amphibian populations, with attention to forested wetlands that dry…
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Environment
Anna Halligan
Director, North Coast Coho Project, Trout Unlimited
NOAA Fisheries named Halligan in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the record coho season. In the same story it reports…
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Environment
Sarah Gallagher
Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
NOAA Fisheries named Gallagher in its feature of March 26, 2026 on the 30,000 adult coho that returned to Mendocino Coast rivers.…
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Environment
Leonel Arguello
Deputy Superintendent, Redwood National and State Parks
Leonel Arguello has worked at Redwood National and State Parks since 1988 and oversees Redwoods Rising and the Redwood Creek estuary restoration…
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Environment
Zane Moore
Doctorate in plant biology, UC Davis, now teaching science
Zane Moore holds a doctorate in plant biology from UC Davis for work on redwood longevity, and UC Davis says he has…
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Sarah Bird
Environment
Sarah Bird
Scholar-Artist Fellow, Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University
Sarah Bird is an interdisciplinary artist who works with trees as material and method, and a Scholar-Artist Fellow at Justus Liebig University…
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Environment
Emily Burns
Program Director, Northern Sky Islands, Sky Island Alliance
Emily Burns is program director for the northern Sky Islands at Sky Island Alliance, and the former science director at Save the…
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Environment
Allyson Carroll
Research Associate, Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management, Cal Poly Humboldt
Allyson Carroll is a dendrochronologist at Cal Poly Humboldt who reads redwood tree rings to date tree age, growth, fires and earthquakes.
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Environment
Laurie A. Wayburn
Co-founder and President, Pacific Forest Trust
Laurie A. Wayburn co-founded Pacific Forest Trust and is its president, working to shift forest economics away from timber products and toward…
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Environment
Rosie Clayburn Katri
Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer, and Director of the Yurok Cultural Resources Department
Rosie Clayburn Katri is the Yurok Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer and director of the Yurok Cultural Resources Department, credited in Giants Rising…
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Environment
Barry McCovey Jr.
Director, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department
Barry McCovey Jr. is a biologist and fisherman who directs the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, the department doing the science behind the…
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Margo Robbins
Environment
Margo Robbins
Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council
Margo Robbins is executive director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, which works to make Yurok cultural burning practical again on Yurok…
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Paul Piff
Environment
Paul Piff
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Irvine
Paul Piff is a social psychologist at UC Irvine whose research covers economic inequality, morality and social connection, and the psychological effects…
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Environment
Todd Dawson
Professor, Departments of Integrative Biology and of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
Todd Dawson is a UC Berkeley professor who studies the interface between plants and their environments, and who directs the university’s Center…
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Marie E. Antoine
Environment
Marie E. Antoine
Research Associate, Department of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management, Cal Poly Humboldt
Marie E. Antoine is a research associate in forestry at Cal Poly Humboldt who studies the biology of the redwood canopy and…
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Environment
Stephen C. Sillett
Professor and Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology, Cal Poly Humboldt
Stephen C. Sillett is a professor at Cal Poly Humboldt who holds the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology and…
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Lisa Landers
Environment
Lisa Landers
Producer and director
Lisa Landers is the producer and director of Giants Rising, with more than two decades of work for television networks and museums…
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Environment
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor…
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Environment
Robin Danehav
Documentary filmmaker
Danehav spent years running production companies and filming for more than 600 corporate clients. In 2022 he took a big risk and…
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Environment
Oskar Kihlborg
Adventurer, first Swede to summit Everest
Kihlborg reached the top of Everest in 1990 with Mikael Reuterswärd, the first Swedes to do it. Guiding groups on Kilimanjaro years…
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