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July 10, 2007— FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Fish & Cow" film featured on TERRA A story of Arctic grayling and efforts to restore the Upper Big Hole River Bozeman, Montana — A new film profiling ranchers’ efforts to restore the Upper Big Hole River will be featured this month on TERRA, an award-winning on-line film space that features compelling films about science and nature. Web address is www.lifeonterra.com.The 20-minute film, titled "Fish and Cow: a Story of Restoring the Upper Big Hole Valley," features ranchers and biologists who are working together to improve the Big Hole River fishery, home of the last river-dwelling population of native Arctic grayling. Bozeman filmmakers Geoff Stephens and Rick Smith produced the film this spring for The Nature Conservancy of Montana. Stephens is a 20-year veteran of NBC News, while Smith is a graduate student in MSU’s Natural History Filmmaking Program. The film will be featured on TERRA in two parts: The first 10-minute segment will air beginning July 10, and the last part beginning July 18. TERRA: The Nature of Our World was instituted at Montana State University-Bozeman in 2005 as the first-ever online science and nature film series. This year it received a national Webby Award. Its producers estimate a daily audience of 12 – 15,000 people. After the film’s lead feature dates, it will be available by searching at TERRA. The film is also available as a free podcast from the iTunes store under science and medicine podcasts, and on DVD from The Nature Conservancy. For more information about the film and the Conservancy’s work in the Upper Big Hole and southwestern Montana, go to www.nature.org/montana or call the Conservancy at 406-388-7515.### The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit conservation organization that conserves critical habitats for plants, animals and natural communities. The Conservancy’s Montana chapter, based in Helena, has community-based programs around the state. It has worked with landowners since 1979 to conserve more than 530,000 acres of land in Montana. For more information, visit Nature.org/Montana. Worldwide, the Conservancy has more than one million members and has helped conserve more than 14 million acres in the United States and 83 million acres in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. |
