Forest Stories
An limited docuseries about the Pacific Northwest Rainforest and
healing our industrial relationship with wood.
roles: Writer, Director, Editor
coming: May 2024
Watch Ep.01 (pilot) preview here:
The great pacific northwest forests dominated our North American Landscape for millenia– home to the some of most prolific carbon-storing trees on the planet.
The Nez Perce have taken an active role in replacing energy hydropower energy, which only produce an average of 3% of the region's power. But will governments and agencies form the political will to breach these dams before it’s too late for Salmon?
With the advent of dams and the modern fish hatchery system, the revered Chinook Salmon has been on the decline for a century. Exacerbated by climate and human impacts, Chinook populations on the Snake river in Idaho and Oregon hover dangerously close to the edge, jeopardizing a central piece of cultural and ancestral lineage for the Nimiipuu, or Nez Perce people.
According to the best available science, the lower 4 dams on the Snake River pose the biggest threat to migrating salmon. Fish must cross through these dams 8 times in their lifecycle, and 50% don’t make it. Nez Perce tribal leadership have begun taking the political steps needed to make dam breaching a reality.
