Classic 1997 SEAS video, Shuswap Wild, now on YouTube

Use this link to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bmo34Ma8TU&feature=plcp

The classic video produced by Shuswap Environmental Action Society that helped with the successful campaign that resulted in the creation of over 25,000 hectares of new provincial parks in the Shuswap watershed. “Shuswap Wild” combines breathtaking footage of Shuswap wilderness with slides by Myron Kozak and Marge Russell, interviews with Shuswap naturalist Mary Lou Tapsen-Jones and forest service ecologist Andre’ Arsenault, original music by Lindsay Kenyon and Hardie McIntosh and wildlife sounds into a powerful, moving 16-minute documentary.

The Upper Seymour River Provincial Park

The interviews and post-production editing were done by Michael Simpson and Fred Bird. Waterfalls, giant trees with hanging moss, canoes on a wilderness lakes, ferns and flowers, satellite photo and GIS map close-ups and scenes of clearcut devastation provoked and inspired viewers to help protect the Anstey Arm/Hunakwa Lake and Upper Seymour River Valley antique rainforest wilderness areas, that are now both provincial parks

The “Seymour Giant”