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Short Synopsis
'A Forest for the Future' explores the human-nature conflict
surrounding the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in western
Canada and the groundbreaking conservation plans for the area. At 16
million acres along the coast of British Columbia, the Great Bear
Rainforest is one of the last and largest remaining intact temperate
rainforests in the world.
Medium Synopsis
'A Forest for the Future' explores the human-nature conflict
surrounding the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in western
Canada, situated along the coast of British Columbia. At 6.5 million
hectares (16 million acres), the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the last
and largest remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world. In
2006, newspapers around the world announced groundbreaking
conservation plans for the area, roughly the size of West Virginia,
which stretches from northern Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border.
This announcement was said to end the 'war in the woods', which
captured media attention from 1997 onward, when an island in the
area, Roderick Island, became the scene of a confrontation between
environmentalists and the logging industry.
The Great Bear Rainforest includes over 100 unlogged watersheds,
sustains 20 percent of the world's wild salmon population, and
supports extraordinary biodiversity. It is home to 68 different mammal
species, genetically distinct wolf populations, numerous bear species
including the endemic white Kermode bear and a wealth of botanical
resources. Also, it is the home territory of 24 First Nations groups who
have inhabited the region for more than 10,000 years.
Long Synopsis
In 2006, Dr. Bettina van Hoven, a cultural geographer from the
University of Groningen, The Netherlands invited Ohio Landscape
Productions’ producers Jean Andrews and Steve Fetsch to come to
Holland where they led a video documentary workshop for Dr. van
Hoven's graduate students. Their job was to show them how to make
a documentary in the style of OLP’s oral history video, 'A Forest
Returns: The Success Story of Ohio's Only National Forest' as told by
Ora Anderson'.
Inspired by Appalachian Narrator Ora Anderson's story and how it was
told on the movie screen, the Dutch producers subsequently travelled
to Canada and produced their own environmental video documentary.
Ora Anderson's passion for preservation and beauty of our natural
world continues to inspire others to tell their stories using video.
Anderson's inspiration has gone global!
'A Forest for the Future' explores the human-nature conflict
surrounding the establishment of the Great Bear Rainforest in western
Canada, situated along the coast of British Columbia. At 6.5 million
hectares (16 million acres), the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the last
and largest remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world. In
2006, newspapers around the world announced groundbreaking
conservation plans for the area, roughly the size of West Virginia,
which stretches from northern Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border.
This announcement was said to end the 'war in the woods', which
captured media attention from 1997 onward, when an island in the
area, Roderick Island, became the scene of a confrontation between
environmentalists and the logging industry.
The Great Bear Rainforest includes over 100 unlogged watersheds,
sustains 20 percent of the world's wild salmon population, and
supports extraordinary biodiversity. It is home to 68 different mammal
species, genetically distinct wolf populations, numerous bear species
including the endemic white Kermode bear and a wealth of botanical
resources. Also, it is the home territory of 24 First Nations groups who
have inhabited the region for more than 10,000 years.

To be included in long synopsis after completion

• Paragraph explaining conservation effort selected to gain
support from video sales
• Director’s statement- 200 words from Dr. Bettina van Hoven on
her video being released in North America, including her goals,
hopes and worries
• Statement from OLP about re-mastering for a North American
audience- 200 words from Jean Andrews on the process and her
goals for the re-mastered video