1968 film that helped spur passage of Oregon's forest protection rules
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 12:05AM We came across this film yesterday on Osprey Steelhead News but no embed code or links to its source were provided. Of course we managed to track it down at Oregon State University and you can grab the embed code HERE if you wish to share.
Pass Creek provides a penetrating account of a once-rich steelhead trout stream threatened by careless logging practices. Focusing on Oregon's North Umpqua River Basin, the film portrays the impact of clearcut logging on the small tributary streams where most of the river's steelhead are spawned and reared. The subtle interdependence of land and water and the disruption of the aquatic environment caused by stream-clogging debris and warming water are dramatically presented. Hal Riney and Dick Snider, advertising executives and fishermen, produced the film and donated it to Oregon State University. It was widely distributed and viewed in Oregon and throughout the United States through the 1970s and was influential in changing logging practices in the Northwest.
Hal Riney knew a thing or two about advertising and public relations.
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Reader Comments (3)
Sadly, this profit driven business continues to put pressure on all species in the N.W. some 40+ years later. Slides, debris flows, silting and the like still plague most watershed feeder creeks and streams in and around clear cuts during normal winter rain events. This has not gone away, not by a long shot. The eyes of our "leadership" continue to be turned away, or closed all together. Please make an effort to stand up for the ones who can not speak for themselves. Get involved!
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This is a tragedy. If the government and upper class weren't so closed minded and profit driven this world would be a lot different... This and so many problems would be solved if Cannabis were legalized. We could use it for Paper, we can make fine Wood from it, we could power every Vehicle on the planet with its Oils, we could make great cloths out of it (with no fish killing pesticides like cotton)... There's really nothing that you can't make with cannabis... Its the plant with the most Bio-mass in the whole world, with the most beneficial uses yet it is still illegal. SAVE FISH_ LEGALIZE CANNABIS http://cannabistaxact.org/
This was early wild steelhead advocacy at its finest. This the film that Frank Moore flew around and spoke to every politician he could that resulted in stream buffers in forest practices.