Public Trust (2020)
The fight for America's public lands.
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
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Hal HerringSelf - Journalist
Terry Tempest WilliamsSelf - Author
Angelo BacaSelf - Navajo/Hopi FilmmakerSpencer ShaverSelf - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary WatersMarshall HelmbergerSelf - Editor, The Timberjay NewspaperLevi LexvoldSelf - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters
Douglas BrinkleySelf - Professor of History at Rice UniversityPatrick SheaSelf - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management
Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)James G. WattSelf - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)Charles WohlforthSelf - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily NewsMovie DNA
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What is Public Trust about?
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
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Public Trust has a runtime of 96 minutes.
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