Marilyn Jasper talked about the importance of preserving Clover Valley near Rocklin in a Storybooth recording.California Documentary Project
Saving the Sierra:
Voices of Conservation in Action
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Project Directors Catherine Stifter, a Peabody Award winning radio producer, and educator jesikah maria ross
Capturing local Sierra voices. For over a year, the “Saving the Sierra” projected has documented efforts to conserve the environment, culture, and economy of the Sierra Nevada. Project Directors Catherine Stifter, a Peabody-award winning radio producer and educator jesikah maria ross, with help from project interns, have traveled up and down the region with a mobile recording studio talking to a wide range of people concerned about conservation issues. Now you can listen to those voices on the Saving the Sierra website.
Three-part radio series featured on KQED’s California Report. Project Directors Stifter and ross also developed a three-part series featuring people taking an active role in their communities and reaching across divides to work with others. Find out about local strategies to preserve one of the last, best rural places in the Sierra Nevada, the Sierra Valley; how residents are trying to boost agricultural tourism; and a collaborative effort to protect a creek in the northern Sierra.
Rancher Attilio Genasci promotes conservation easements as a way to protect the Sierra Valley from development. His story was part of a "Save the Sierra" radio series.Want to weigh in on Sierra issues? Everyone from forests activists to county supervisors to students are discussing Sierra issues via a blog on the project website. See what people are saying and add your voice.
What’s next? Project directors Stifter and ross are developing three additional radio programs and an hour-long radio documentary is in the planning stages. They say that the documentary, which be available for Earth Day in April 2008, will focus on issues that most concern the hundreds of residents they’ve talked to. They will also convene an advisory group of scholars, students and representatives of Indian tribes and conversation and business groups for ideas about the documentary’s direction. We hope that our documentary will mean more to residents because so many people will have had a voice in it,” Stifter said.