In honor of Earth Day, or Earth Month, may we recognize our human necessities of caretaking for the fragile planet that sustains us. We will publish here and on Substack, a selection of original films, artworks, really, in coordination with our work to inspire students by collaborating with WSU, Vancouver to offer experienced activists to the classroom at the high school, community college, and university levels, through a program funded by the Grande Ronde Tribe and Spirit Mountain, “Thin Green Line is People’s History.”
Unconquering The Last Frontier is my first full length feature documentary film. It was more than a movie as I soon realized. I was not simply an outside observer who would film and soon depart.
The noted American Documentarian David Hoffman intoned "Your films change you," and so they do.
This film played an important role in amplifying an epic story of survival, resilience, economic development and ecosystem renewal.
This film, and the story of the Elwha, provide a beacon of hope.
If the story changed me, it can change all of us.
(written by Robert Lundahl and Peter Bettendorf, motion picture sound recordist, 2015).
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unconquering-last-frontier-robert-lundahl-1c/
Buckminster Fuller Institute is a 501(c)3 Fiscal Sponsor of The Last Oasis Film an Creative Frontline.
Primetime Policy Change
1. Cadiz Water Inc. License revocation by Governor Newsom
2. Establishment of Chuckwalla National Monument
3. 20 year halt of mining at Ash Meadows
4. Reviving the Colorado River
65 episodes on KPFK many focusing on Water in the West, the species, peoples, and agriculture. CreativeFRONTLINE on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara has played a key role in the battle to protect abundance and biodiversity at locations across the Colorado Basin, producing several shows week after week raising awareness of our natural ecological systems.
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Water in the West.
The Last Oasis
These clips together form a profound story of the ways we experience the land and the waters, in the nation's most populous state, and ultimately how we see ourselves. The story begins in remote Beatty, Nevada and continues down the Amargosa, down the Colorado, and beyond to Tucson and San Diego, home to 40 million people.
The script, in development for a high quality documentary film project and educational campaign, resides here.
Produced by Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone (Nde Western Apache), and Robert Lundahl.
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USMC Veterans Toxics Exposure.
Trichlorethylene
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Ecosystem Restoration.
Over the Elwha.
Fine Art Photo Exhibits,
Delta
Elwha River Mouth - Robert Lundahl for the National Park Service - Over The Elwha Exhibit
Lake Mills
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Endangered Species.
Pupfish. Little blue fish endemic to pools upwelling amid the rock strata at Ash Meadows.
Here on Creative FRONTLINE, we’ve done several shows on water in the West. Only not the same water from your tap exactly, but the waters in springs, aquifers, and rivers, and now, Death Valley and it’s mysterious partially underground Amargosa River.
Water moves good things and bad in the desert including radioactive materials from nuclear testing years ago.
We’re on with Amargosa Conservancy’s Mason Voehl, discussing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Pupfish are good.
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Homebuyers of Texas
Toxic Mold.
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Six Utility Scale Desert Solar Projects Get Holiday Surprise
Litigation Support
Native American group files suit against BLM for failure to consult. SALEM-NEWS,COM By Robert Lundahl (Release)
Lawsuit alleges solar projects would harm Culturally Sacred Native American sites
Public Relations
Lawsuit alleges solar projects would harm sacred Native American sites LOS ANGELES TIMES By By Phil Willon and Tiffany Hsu
Who Are My People is Well Worth Watching
EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE By Allan Hoffman Ph.D.
Is The US Department of the Interior Committing Cultural Genocide And Ecocide?
CLEAN TECHNICA By Roy Hales
Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists
Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists THE GUARDIAN By Edward Helmore
CENSORED NEWS By Brenda Norrell
Mojave Desert Elders Expose the Dark Side of Solar
CENSORED NEWS By Robert Lundahl
Media:
COMMUNICATIONS PROBLEM SOLVERS.
We focus on comprehensive strategies.
Environment, Climate, Culture, History, Biography, and Legacy.
Thin Green Line is People
Washington State University Speakers’ Bureau Launch “The History of Earth Day.”
https://vancouver.labs.wsu.edu/thethingreenlineispeople/speakers-bureau/
Secrets in the Ice - Video News Release - Scripps Institution of Oceanography - ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign. Three films, two websites.
Climate Change Not Business as Usual, with Jeff Severinghaus, Ph.D. Video News Release - Scripps Institution of Oceanography - ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign. Three films, two websites.
Global Campaign Launch Rights of Nature NOW!
A True Source of Wonderment
Legacy Media
Smarter Broadcasting
70 Episodes
on PRX Exchange
American Voices
Chemehuevi Stories From the Colorado River and Beyond
https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/420772
The Peopling of the Americas
https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/420843
Contemporary Tales of the American West
https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/420775
Lithium in America
https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/420763
The Science of Water
https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/420786
Podcasts
The Fight to Save Thacker Pass : Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Published Salem-News.com
We want to do better, but we’re doing the worst possible thing. And sometimes we confuse the two.
Published Salem-News.com
Native American groups sue to stop solar projects
Native Groups Sue Over Solar Projects ASSOCIATED PRESS By NOAKI SCHWARTZ and JASON DEAREN
Businessweek, Huffington Post, Indian Country News, Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Tulsa World, UT San Diego, Victoria Advocate, Ventura County Star, Yahoo News, Others
Portland Oregon Screening with live feed, Clinton St. Theater
“Troubles at giant projects in California desert prompt U.S. to revise plan”
Troubles at giant projects in California desert prompt U.S. to revise plan
With billions of dollars in federal stimulus money in hand, the Obama administration set out five years ago on a grand experiment in the California desert.
The goal: Open public lands to renewable-energy development to wean the nation from fossil fuels.
The results haven't been pretty, a fact the administration has tacitly acknowledged by devising a new plan, expected to be released this month, to find better places to put industrial-scale solar farms in the California desert.
-Caroline Lochhead, SFGate
29 Palms Screening, 29 Palms Inn, Joshua Tree National Park Council for the Arts
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Dam Removal and Ecosystem Restoration
The great gift of the Elwha — Hope
-Senator Bill Bradley
PBS – Free Speech TV – National Museum of the American Indian – The Smithsonian Institution – Harvard – Yale – Dartmouth – The University of Washington –
Robert Lundahl at Whiskey Bend on the Elwha River
KCET SoCal Focus by Chris Clarke
Lundahl returned to the California desert a few years ago after spending decades traveling, landing in Las Vegas, the Bay Area, and the Pacific Northwest among other places. He spent the 1990s documenting a battle by the Elwha Klallam, a tribe on the Olympic Peninsula, to remove two salmon-killing dams on the Elwha River.
To many people's surprise, that battle was successful. The Elwha Dam was finally demolished last year, and the Glines Canyon Dam demolition should be complete sometime this year.
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Broadcast
Read “About Unconquering the Last Frontier” on Patreon.
"Portrays the dignity and wisdom of the Lower Elwha Klallam in the face of almost a century of racism and political ill-will... shows us how the tribe has taken center stage in the efforts to retain what's left of Elwha salmon stocks. When the stocks return, more than the ecology will be restored...the tribe will have salmon to complete the circle of traditional ceremonial ways."
–Adam Burke, High Country News
Exhibits
Thoreau Center for Sustainability
The Presidio, San Francisco
Seed Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Presidio of San Francisco
Glines Canyon Dam
Mt. Olympus
We are restoring honor.
We are keeping promises.
We are doing the right thing.
-Senator Bill Bradley
Media: Print
The Climate Front: People Who Live There - Daniel M. Kammen, PhD, Nobel Laureate, U.C. Berkeley
Daniel M. Kammen, U.C. Berkeley Physicist, IPCC Lead Author, Nobel Laureate
The Land You Know Has Been Given to You–Robert Lundahl special to Salem-News.com
A New Series on Lithium Mining begins at the Ft. Yuma Indian Reservation.
Turning the Titanic, with John Reaves – Citizen’s Climate Lobby – ADDY Award Winner, Best Interactive Campaign
Select Educational Film Screenings: Harvard University, Dartmouth College, University of Washington, Pomona College, Northern Arizona University, University of California Irvine,
Our education partners:
Strategic Organizational Development
National Brands
Bank of America
Wells Fargo Bank/NACHA
ConEd
NACHA, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia
NACHA, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia
NACHA, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia
NACHA, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia
NACHA, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Wachovia
29 Major Awards including Emmy®, Telly, Addy, Cindy, IABC
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