UNDERSTORY - Tongass Forest Documentary
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2021
- Three women set sail on a 350 mile expedition through Alaska’s massive Tongass National Forest, exploring how clearcut logging in this coastal rainforest could affect wildlife, local communities and our planet’s climate. Learn more and take action at www.LastStands.org
Production | Wild Confluence Media & Last Stands
Funding Partners | Peak Design, Patagonia, Sitka Salmon Shares, Audubon Alaska & The Wilderness Society
Director & Editor | Colin Arisman
Producer & Narration | Elsa Sebastian
Cinematography | Gleb Mikhalev & Colin Arisman
Story Advisors | Duct Tape Then Beer, Faith E. Briggs & Natalie Dawson
Original score | Aled Roberts
Additional music | Liz Cooper and The Stampede, Kēpa & Y La Bamba
Animation | Kalakala
Motion graphics | Luke Kantola
Title design | Lee House
Audio post production | Ridgeline Sound
Colorist | Arianna Shining Star
Featuring | Elsa Sebastian, Natalie Dawson, Mara Menahan & Marina Anderson
Very Excited about this film, we need to protect Tongass
You guys are the best. ALASKA represent!
See Susanne Simard a Canadian, professor of Forest Ecology University of British Columbia a biologist who has valuable research on old growth stands and how they work.
The Tongass should be managed by the tribes. Hopefully the Guardians program achieves that.
🙌 Portugal - you’re The Man…and I agree
See below if your a recognizer of the forest was already being farmed before human's budded in front of the True Farmer's of Earth. *Supernatural Earth Being's Tracking Channel.
Incredible film, incredible place, important message. Thank you so much for creating this.
Thank you for sharing it - found this via your channel
thank you for sharing magnificent video , spent alot of time exploring the west coast, it is truly one of the amazing places on this planet
Ladies... .. .. What a crew.. Thanks for taking us along ! Well done everyone.. that made this possible ! Thank you
What a wonderful documentary. It brought me to tears seeing what is happening there. The Tongass temperate rainforest is a jewel and should be treated as such.
Good old US greed at it's finest figures old man Trump rolled back so many protection regulations acts that he could as he could as a lame ass only one term president could, all in the name of promises tohis so called rt wing Conservatives, you remember jobs jobs 😉 more beautiful jobs than any other president could have ever done.yeah how's that working out for yea-lmfao but any way what do I no I'm a 54year old man with a pace maker with a job go figure a landscaper job which I like alot but shouldn't have to do at my age and very limited physical ability to do but got to make a living some how and live that good old American dream. Lol again 🤣 😅 😂 🙃 😆 🙄. But girls thank you for the doc,it was very good and educational.hang in there ,maybe and hopefully their's those people in the government will reapply those protection regs they need to be 4 it's to late for 👩 🌎. Thanks again .👍 peace ✌
Keep up your fight to save your forest, never give up - from a Scottish supporter.
Thank you John! Thanks for the solidarity from across oceans and continents :)
Beautiful told story
You have done what few can
You have given a story to all of us
It is our story
I pray it's message is heeded
Thank you
Peace
I grew up in Juneau and deeply miss the peace of deep forest. Now living in Humboldt CA, the old growth redwoods few and far between are still being cut. Beautiful film!
Thank you so much for making this important documentary! As difficult as it is to see the devastation, it's absolutely necessary to get the word out so that people can speak up and protect the Tongass. 💙🌳🌿💙
I live in the middle of the tongass forest and have for over 30 yrs this film is pretty propaganda. If you came here and saw how huge this area is and how small the clear-cut are relative to the size of the mountains you would probably laugh. These clear cuts are in remote places and grow back so damm fast. This is a rainforest that gets 18+ hours of sun in summer do you have any idea how fast stuff grows here hahaha
Great documentary video,beautiful photography, and well presented. We must save the old growth forests! The Tongass National Forest contains more old growth temperate rain forest than anywhere else on Earth. It must be protected. Thank you, Alan
Thank you so much for this. I lived in Sitka summer of 1999 and the beauty of the Tongass Forest still stays with me today.
It's a remarkable place, full of so much life and energy. I'm glad that you enjoyed the film, and I hope you can visit Southeast Ak again. :)
We are blown away by the response so far to "Understory". Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the film - it means alot after all the time and energy that we put into making this. We decided to release "Understory" now because the US Forest Service just opened a 60-day public comment period for people to weigh in on restoring protections for 9-million acres of the Tongass. We hope you WATCH > TAKE ACTION > SHARE to help protect the TONGASS!
Hilarious. If some people are using a social system backed up with real weapons to kill the planet, including humans, then there is only one way to stop those people from doing that.....
So sad stop now before it's too late. I like what the Indians teach to look out 7 generations and think about them.
From the start .. I was spell bound. I was born n raised on Oahu and from 3 n 4 yrs of age, was in the woods .. there being jungle more so .. and ocean. Outdoors was everything .. underwater and in the water with all the friendly n not so friendly creatures .. camping - cub, weeblo, boy scouts-infantry - never got old or boring. It was everything. Now at 57, I do everything I can to be on my mtn bike and in the wood as it is an efficient way to cover miles - up and down. My home is Hood River, N most Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge .Woods everywhere n sasquatch too, like up there. I had a night visitor at one of my 'forward operating bases' just south of Mt Adams that I established in this area deliberately to solo camp in their territory. It worked. I would ride a place one month and return months later to see it completely shredded and destroyed .. and remember the falcon that actually flew up from behind me as I was descending and deliberately struck my helmet in its taloned strafing run .. protecting its nest from this intruder, almost making me crash. I saw it fly past n bank up n right. Remarkable. I wondered how many nests had been destroyed in the logging. I have spent much time looking into how things really are and really work with governments, big corporations, sequestered technology, mega-conglomerates and of course, the money trail. Logging, oil and mining along with some other industries lead the path of destruction on our planet. If krill n plankton blooms fizzle and drag netting continues, then what .. ? If all the extraordinarily advanced, sequestered energy technology is not released and used, then what ..? I never dreamed I would see the population blowing up as it is, the evil power play by a very few across planet earth as it is .. but I am. We are. God bless you for your view and your vision, your endeavors, intelligence, tenacity and skill !! May God bless you with provision and open doors !! Peace, aloha n Godspeed !! Garth Hardin on youtube n facebook.
Thank you for documenting this! It was so beautiful to go with you into the deep heart of the forest. I followed the link and submitted my support of protecting the Tongass.
So happy to have found this! I lived in Petersburg for about 15 years and had the privilege of watching Elsa and Forrest grow into fine young people. I'm glad you were able to resurrect Murrellett! What a fine Ingrid 🙂 Keep up the fight Elsa!!!!
Thank you for bringing this to light for those of us that have no clue what is going on with the Tongass. Your film was very informative and moving!!
MUST WATCH - Young and Old...this Documentary should be watched in every School & every home nationwide, hopefully one day ppl would wake up, see the reality and stop this Armageddon! God willing.
The visibility you have given to this absolute travesty to such an amazing vital natural resource so needed for future generations. We must continue the fight to save the Tongass. I have never seen this beautiful place but join the fight to save it. Thank you for your efforts to bring this struggle to light. You are making a difference! A few drops can grow to an ocean of support. God bless & keep up the fight!
Beautiful cinematography, beautiful landscape, I've only watched the first 3 minutes and I know this is a great film.
Excellent! Thank you for this important work.
The videography of your film is also fantastic. My favorite part is the closeup of the shell at 18:15, where you can clearly see the meniscus of the sparkling water. Beautiful. And your Ingrid makes a great research vessel for documenting nature.
Thank you Colin and Elsa for this heartbreakingly beautiful and timely video. I live on a small gulf island in BC and every summer we take a cruise on our sailboat and encounter the same shortsighted devastation. Sadly our politicians think exactly the way yours do. Right now they are haggling over the last 1% of the old growth forest in our province
Simon, it is truly heartbreaking and shortsighted. It seems like there's a lot of good energy in BC right now, I hope we all are at a turning point
Thank you for what you have made here. A moving watch. Hopefully, the future holds protections for The Tongass.
This was so moving and well done. It’s inspiring me to take a stand against old growth logging altogether! ✊🏽🌲
Why don't yu take a stand against the commercial fishing practices that are just as destructive, you can't curt trees for money but catching all the salmon you can for profit is ok? I've lived here 30 yrs and seen the salmon stocks plummet why is that different, because you can't see it underwater, out of site out of mind
This brings me hope. We need more people out doing this, I hope this gets the attention it deserves!
Thanks for watching! I hope more people start ground-truthing too! Building relationship with public lands, especially lands threatened by extractive interests, is a critical part of being a good steward. Necessary if we're going to pass these places down to the next generation.
Thank you so so much for this inspiring movie! I already knew that this was happening all over the North West Pacific! And every time I see the documentation of a clearcut my soul dies a little bit. The shear extend of violent destruction humans feel comfortable with to bring upon these last refuges of plentiful nature!
I hope this film will draw wide circles all over the world and especially North America!
Beautiful, keep making and telling these stories please. As hard as it is, I need to hear them.
Incredible film y’all 🌲🙌🏼❤️
THANKS SO MUCH for watching and the comment GOTH BABE!
I hope this thoughtful and beautifully executed video will move many people to follow the link provided and register their protest against the terrible misuse of our precious national resources with the Federal Government and Forest Service.
As a person with walk those forests, they’re truly magnificent and such a tremendous thing to behold. It’s amazing that we could destroy that beauty put it in a ship and send it to China…
What a beautiful film, we were entranced, enraged and in awe of the beauty of Tongass and it's terrible threat.
Great video and message, we have never heard of the Tongass before, keep up the good work!
Wow what a eye opener! Thanks for taking the time to let the rest of us in America know what's really going on up there. I grew up in a small logging town in Northern California and I was always told it was our best renewable resource that we have. As I got older and seen that they went from selective cutting of the trees to clear cutting I've been sickened by what destruction has been left. It'll take many of generations to just get rid of the scars left from logging industry practices to not notice that there was the logging in those areas. I can't believe how they can continue to cut anything in that area period. I'll be doing my part to fight from today on to stop any forest logging up in that area of country. Thank you again for the eye opening into what mass greed is doing to destroy the last of the world's beautiful forest! And what sickened me the most is 85% of that timber is being exported to our #1 enemy CHINA! Sick! Just sick!
Sure you will...you aren't gonna do anything...put your mask on, get your booster and go back to sleep
@@ainokea4u getting vaccinated doesnt make a person less of an ass kicker. Its the sad sad reality that antivaxxers are trembling pissing them selves terrified over a tiny shot. Antivaxxers have decided that instead of being free and being able to leave america and visit other countries visit europe or asia or some gorgeous island. Instead of being able to travel the world an antivaxxer has decided to be stuck in America the rest of their lives just because they are scared of a vaccine. Hope your just fine self imposing a belief that makes it impossible to leave the country ever. I dont see how blocking yourself from the ability to leave the country cause an antivaxxer is terrified of a shot is something to brag about. Never being able to leave America is a high price to pay just to avoid a vaccine. Its embarrassing is what it is
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Ahhhh. Meester conspiracy. Was it your grandparents that died in 1918 ? ... masks be damned ... Ain't died before this fake flu. Ain't gonna die now. It's all s govt. coverup to control the masses.
On and on and on and onandonandonandon ... Blah blah blah.
Hahahaha ...
I'm from Kennicott Alaska born and raised. I live in Kenny Lake now. I spent a summer in Ketchikan, it was so amazingly beautiful, this has me in tears, keep up the good fight!!!
Thank you. Beautifully done and very moving. I’ve shared and asked that people respond. Less than two weeks left for comments to the Forest Service. We must stop this self defeating destruction of our most valuable and necessary resources, of the beautiful live giving organs of our world.
Thank you for producing this documentary. I just wish there were 370 million "Thumbs-up" votes instead of 3.7K.
Fantastic job Elsa and Colin! I’m so excited to be able to watch it again on UA-cam and share it with others! I’m just so disappointed that I was not invited along to crew on this amazing journey!😘. You both are amazing!
Next time Thomas! ;)
@@elsamsebastian819 Actually this is your Aunt Kath🥰
@@TallGrass45 aha! I should've pieced that together :) Thanks for watching
cant wait to see this tomorrow.
Hi neighbor! Me too!
The Tongass, this film and elsa are all so incredibly beautiful. Thank you.
This is a MUST WATCH for all who care about the environment, biodiversity and indigenous rights. Watch, share, ACT!
Thanks for watching and taking action Judith!
Did you also laugh at the face that someone involved in the unsustainable fishing industry was complaining about the logging
Great documentary!! Well done! Thank you for sharing this story.
Thanks for your kind words Mike!
Great documentary
I wish I was there to discover this beautiful nature
Woooooo. Been waiting on this to release for a while!!
Thank you, ladies. The Oregon & Washington I grew up in used to look similar. No more, very sadly.
I lived in Ketchikan for 4 months in 95. I really connected with this movie. I got emotional. You are some tough gals. Keep it up!
2 minutes in and I’m sold!
Great job.
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Thank you very much for the upload.
Beautifully done, very impactful. Thank you for creating and sharing and bringing it closer to our own lives. Protect old growth everywhere all.
As an educator and adventurer myself with CP I grateful for ths documentary!!!
This is heartbreaking and beautiful. Well done. I had no idea the government subsidized this destruction and lied to us about it being a renewable resource. I've shared it. These trees are probably the oldest and wisest living things on earth. Humans are so arrogant and greedy. My hope is that we can influence the decisions in DC to protect all the wild places on earth and create more forests where the land has been turned into desert. Action Action Action. This film is fantastic. It needs to be shown in every school, every government agency, everywhere.
Ego film . No one believes any millennial. Too dumb and BRAINWASHED. MUH CLIMATE CHANGE! HAHA
What about the salmon stocks that have plummeted over the last 30 yrs, its ok for this girl to continue harvesting from the ocean for profit as salmon dwindle but not ok to harvest trees. Salmon stocks have declined far worse than trees have been cut. I've lived here over 30 yrs and live in this exact area of the video, why is there only one side, there was no one representing the loggers view, they have families who are impacted. Why is it ok to continue harvesting salmon but not trees for profit
@@AK2HI Salmon are no way nearly as important as old growth forests and ancient intact forests, though both are important. Old growth can take hundreds of years to grow, sometimes up to a thousand. They both rely on each other, and salmon should be harvested more sustainably. But old growth can NEVER be harvested sustainably, because old growth takes a millennia to grow. Salmon populations can theoretically recover, to an extent. Old growth isn't. Especially considering that once they are logged, they become sickly forests to get cut and re-cut on rotation every 30-50 years, thus eliminating a chance to ever become old growth again.
@@NatureShy you sound like a kid just copying stuff from the inter net. I live in the middle of the tongass national forest and have been a commercial fisherman for over 30 yrs. Trees and fish are there for humans use. Until you live and work amongst us in Alaska your comments are pointless. Why do you feel the need to tell others how to live and manage their resources when you aren't even part of our state. Fix your own life and state you live in before jumping on some woke bandwagon against things you've probably never acuseen in front of you. Have you ever used a chainsaw or ran a Salmon boat. So who are you to critique anyone who lives and works here busting their butt. You the little internet warrior want to come along tell others you don't agree so you should be shut down. Get off your soap box and maybe do something rather than just talk smack
@@NatureShy you don't seem to know what your talking about and pretty sure you don't live in the tongass forest like I have for over 30 yrs and been a commercial fisherman for over 30 yrs. So to all the people that comment and think they know whats best for Alaskan citizens you can just keep your woke comments to yourself. We don't want you nor do we need you to defend any part of our livelihood
OMG- I had NO IDEA!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Obviously, shared- with real tears in my eyes...
Alaska represents 20% (1/5th) of the continental US. There are less than 800,000 ppl who live in the State. Hmmm, there are over 330MM 'Mericans' who have NOT seen it. It's a REAL problem- you bet. I'm unsure of how to get more visibility, but- this short film is a great start. It's very hard to look at a map and say "Yes, that is important to us as a nation" and, we CAN change our mind about how best to manage these old growth forests which we need to cherish. Sadly, the current administration can't manage a border, a relationship with another nation, let alone long term impact of current policies. If Trump made a mistake, I believe that he will fix it. The next administration will be far more competent at handling domestic policy- I'm 100% sure of that.
This is the best environmental documentary I have ever seen. My hope is that your efforts will be successful and the entire forest will be saved. Thank you. Dorothy
Wow! That's generous praise. Thanks Dorothy!
Beautiful movie. Thank you so much for sharing and caring.
Thank you!!! Thank you so so much!!!!!🌿🌏
Elsa, Natalie. and Mara, my new hero’s. Beautiful badass women fighting the good fight in a way that allows the world to participate. This film is enlightening, extraordinary, and tragic. Through it, we see how humans are raping Earth to an end that spells our demise. I'm writing a letter to Biden and the US Department of Forestry right now. Thank you, girls, for making us aware of what's happening in the Tongass forest. Excellent job!
Thanks Lori & Crew, that's very sweet. Thanks for submitting a comment!
Thank you for this film. I had no idea our taxes were being used to facilitate the export of these trees for private profit. The insanity is hard to wrap my head around.
BTW, cool boat. i have also restored an older, full keel sailboat and hope to visit Alaska some day. I ditched the diesel though and went electric... cleaner, quieter and way fewer parts that break down.
Many blessings to you for making thins film and doing what you can to protect the forests. (In my country we do not have any old forests left, if a forest is old here it is only about 150 years.)
Well done what a fantastic documentary. GOD BLESS And we see you from Australia. 🙏
Out here in the Coastal rainforest of Oregon and a tree hugger The Three of you make me PROUD of what you're doing to save the Tongass. I see your mission and wish more younger people was fighting as much as you are .
16000 people have watched this. Why are there not 16000 thumbs up
Thank you ladies for showing me a place I truly never knew of. I love our wilderness across America. Keep up the exposure of the headless corporations selling our timber to the Chinese.
thank you for creating and sharing this to protect our planet
What a wonderful gift you have given us. A look into this ugly world of greed and how we can help The planet. I will try to do as much as I can to help.
Well done! Thank you for sharing the story.
I've been waiting for the premeiere all this last week. It was so powerful and moving, I even found myself crying towards the end when you got to the farming part. I hope enough people see this and we can make a positive change for the planet. Thank you and the work you do to show us this.
Thank you for watching Jon! These forests are sacred places, and I hope that we can start taking better care of them.
I love you women , the Tongass, Alaska, wild... Thanks for caring and putting this together with your tremendous skills and heart.
A beautiful forest should remain a
Beautiful forest.
We need more awareness of this issue!! Great
This should have more views. This was phenomenal!
Girls, you are amazing, in any meaning of the word!
Thanks for telling the story! Seing the actions of politicians etc makes me furious! I’m Norwegian and live in Amsterdam, so I’m not directly connected to this story, but it’s a global issue. You guys give me hope.
As an aside: I love your boat! An old Norwegian built and designed boat, by the famous Colin Archer. A real gem that boat! The engine is also Norwegian made. Sabb diesel. I’ve had two boats with that engine. Old fashioned and not very powerful, but it’s ridiculously robust. I once revived one that had been untouched for 18 years. It was totally stuck. I talked with a guy at the factory and asked if it was possible to do anything. He said: “Yes, no problem! Just dump some oil in the cylinders and use whatever needed to rotate it. It’ll start. The only way to kill that on is to shoot it!” :-) It started after a day of work. I took the boat from Turkey to Norway along the Donau and Rhein rivers. Insanely robust motor is not an exaggeration!
Thanks for watching! I love that you're familiar with the sabb engine. It's so reliable, but it always makes me nervous when something goes wrong with it because the parts need to be ordered from Europe! When I bought the Murrelet it had been sitting for 5 years, and the engine started immediately! Pretty cool. Sounds like some cool river sailing, thanks for sharing.
It pains my heart just thinking about how our lives would be if there are no trees. I have always found a deep connection between human soul and tree soul. To me we are all connected and born from same energy. Whenever I am anxious, I just rush towards these majestic beings and ground myself. I teach my kids to touch them, hug them, love them.
I watched this with tears flowing down my cheeks, may we realize this soon that there is no life without them.. there’s no life without trees 🌲
Couldn’t agree more!! I take my kids outside everyday so they can hug a tree. Teach them young
Excellent film, thank you for this.
Absolutey stunning
I would love to go to a place like this and never leave. What incredible group of young ladies and the work they do! If this segment doesn’t make you sick and angry and you obviously don’t care. We can just go about our lives do our shopping order off of Amazon and completely ignore what’s happening until one day it’s brought a ride up to our doorstep and then we won’t be able to ignore it. But then it will be too late.
Incredible film. We are seeing the same thing in BC forestry, and we are fighting beside you. 💚 🌍
Thank you for making this film.
Heartbreaking story with well executed narration, and art. You guys deserve such praise for your research and meticulous devotion to what is true and the history we tend to forget. Absolute masterpiece, thank you for preserving these places and spreading awareness of the scope of these tragedies. Don't lose the ancient forests. The minimum 2000 years REQUIRED renewable resource.
Thank you for your encouragement. We put a lot of heart into this project. We're so glad that it resonated with you
what an incredible movie...😭🌱🌬️
watching from russia!!
How about your Kamchatka area
Great Work! Inspirational. Too bad so many people do not know of this or choose not to educate themselves or participate in keeping their country.
Amazing film!!! Viking mill was so gnarly
Incredible. So well done. Inspiring 3 women! I had heard about the Tongass in the 1970s and of course supported its protection. It is completely disheartening that it's protection is even a point of discussion. It is so straight forward in my mind. Every single piece of wilderness in the world needs to be protected at this point. All of it. Humans can stick to what we have already destroyed. And preferentially maybe we can restore places and give back to mother nature. Stop eating meat (if at all possible), stop being a consumer and be a survivor, and ask yourself every day what you can do or stop doing to help the Earth survive your presence.
Wonderful documentary
Thanks John!
Awesome
Very nice and sad video at the same time. 👏🏻 keep fighting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Excellent documentary, the right tone for what we felt while sailing from Juneau to Kechikan 2 years ago ... I hope with all my heart that this can help save Tongass and any other forest !!
Just keep hoping...that'll probably work
great images, great conquest....thank you...
Fantastic work Colin and Elsa! The journalism, storytelling and cinematography are all top notch.
Thanks Luke, amazing works on the graphics!!
Thanks Luke!
Saving the Tongans Forest will help make our planet more livable.
Thank you for sharing! We need to save Tongass
Very informative video. Thank you
Thank you.
Living on Vancouver island , this state of forestry management applies to the entire coast from WA up to Alaska including the forests of BC. Clearcutting old growth primary forests to export logs to China. Thank you for explaining the difference between a forest ecosystem and a plantation tree farm. There is a fundamental difference that many don't grasp without seeing it and feeling it for themselves. Spread the word.
Absolutely agree on the challenge of communicating the difference between a forest and the regrowth that comes after a clearcut. It was important to us to try to share that story!
What a wonderful informative documentary’’’
Well done.
Thank you for this very important documentary! You did a great job!!I will share it wherever I can.
Incredible work!
Thanks Mike!
We are visiting in late April. Can't wait to see it.
I saw the clear cuts in Yakutat. A very beautiful place until the road to the river. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen. Keep the Tongass intact!
Great job of documenting this. It amazes me that Alaska's political elite are so callous aboaut the permanent damage they will allow in their home state. This awareness now will ensure my effort on behalf of preserving what I assume most Alaskans need and want.
Fantastic film, and critical message. Thank you for creating this
Thanks John!
Some people will never know the meaning of the word priceless. Everybody needs a thneed I guess. Thanks for doing this guys!
Great film ! I spent a whole month visiting in Alaska a few years ago and I wasn't even aware of this tragedy. Massive and beautiful place and It needs to stay that way.
As an Alaskan that is my point, these clear cuts are far and few between and are in remote places peopdont go or even see, people need to remember this is a rainforest that gets 18+ hours daylight in summer do you have any idea how fast stuff grows here haha
Thank you, very touching!