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Promoting Sustainability Through Community

Join Red Rock Forests as they host the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival On Tour, the largest film festival of its kind in North America, in downtown Moab.

Red Rock Forests has hand-selected ten unique films of varying length that explore creative ways that people all across the globe are using their 'built' environments more sustainably, and thus reducing the demands and pressures for resources from our wild places. A sampling of the festival includes a trip to Australia where the city of Melbourne is reinventing its urban landscape with wider sidewalks, greener streets, eclectic cafes and public art to make it a bustling pedestrian haven; to a beach in New Zealand where an artist makes beautiful sand mandalas; on a tour of three faith congregations and how they are driven by their spiritual and religious convictions to re-examine what it means to be human and how we live on this planet; to an urban homestead in California where a family harvests nearly 3 tons of organic food from their 1/20 acre garden; and on a road trip that tours North America, dodging Yellowstone's grizzlies and Miami's taxicabs, and highlighting sustainable road projects and wildlife corridors for the 21st century.

The festival is a natural extension of the past ten years, during which Moab-based Red Rock Forests has been protecting the forests and watersheds of the La Sal and Abajo Mountains--the sole watersheds for southeastern Utah's Greater Canyonlands Basin. Through local and regional citizen outreach, we provide many opportunities for community participation, as our membership gets involved in everything from trail restoration to speaking out at public meetings and commenting on proposed forest and watershed projects.

The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival was started by the watershed advocacy group, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). The festival's namesake is in celebration of achieving Wild & Scenic status for 39 miles of the South Yuba River in 1999. The festival enabled SYRCL to mobilize their community for the advocacy of its local watershed. The Wild and Scenic Festival On Tour partners with environmental and grassroots groups to host tour venues across the country reaching 75 towns and cities. The festival brings a community together around film allowing audiences an opportunity to evaluate local issues affecting their surrounding area. The films inspire, entertain and motivate people to go out and make a difference in their community and around the world.

Doors open at 5:30 pm and the show starts at 6 pm. Tickets are only available at the door. $10 at the door, $5 for children 12 and under. For more information, call 435-259-5640 or visit http://www.redrockforests.org.

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