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Sedona Environmental Film Festival Focuses on Imperiled Rivers and Streams
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The largest environmental film festival on the West Coast is sharing its magic with Arizona for a second year running in Sedona. The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival brings together award-winning environmental and adventure films in a spirit of inspiration and education. This year¡¯s lineup focuses predominantly on water and riparian ecosystem issues around the United States and abroad, from Italy to Canada, from Glen Canyon to the rainforests of the Yucatan peninsula. The festival finishes with a tribute to the magnificent grizzly bear and a man working to save them by raising orphan cubs in a remote part of Russia. The film has won multiple awards including two audience-voted encore showings at the national Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival. The Arizona Wilderness Coalition will offer guests information on the current status of the congressional bill to protect Fossil Creek as a Wild and Scenic River, how to help protect wilderness-quality lands around Arizona, including in the Verde Valley, and ways to get involved with the campaign to protect the Tumacacori Highlands as wilderness in southern Arizona. Since the decommissioning of the Childs-Irving hydroelectric facility by APS in 2005, and return of natural flows to Fossil Creek, AWC has been actively working to ensure that this critical tributary of the Verde River is protected as a Wild and Scenic River, resulting from legislation introduced to the Senate by John McCain (R) in 2007. Designation under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act will help protect this popular waterway in central Arizona by prohibiting water projects that would harm the creek¡¯s ecosystem; safeguarding the water quality; and requiring the U.S. Forest Service to develop a cooperative river management plan that addresses recreational uses, land owners, and adjacent public lands. More information on the Fossil Creek campaign will be available at the festival and at the Verde Valley Nature and Birding Festival in Cottonwood, April 25-27. The films for this Sedona screening were chosen from among the favorites at the annual film festival held in Nevada City, California. The festival has grown to receive local, regional, and national plaudits for celebrating the spirit of environmental activism and has become the largest traveling festival of its kind in North America. DOORS OPEN: 4:00 pm SHOW STARTS: 5:45 pm COST: $10 advance, or $12 at the door RAFFLE TICKETS (great prizes!) $3 each or 4 for $10 Live music and a photography exhibit by author and photographer Elias Butler round out this exciting afternoon! www.eliasbutler.com Tickets are available at: The Sedona Dream Theater Box Office, 928-284-0005 Golden Word Book Centre, 3150 West Highway 89A, Ste 5, Sedona, 928-282-2688 ON-LINE at http://www.sedonatheater.com/buytickets.html |
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