Kissimmee Basin: Northern Everglades Part 4 of 4

Hello friends and partners of the Kissimmee Basin: the Northern Everglades documentary project,

We posted a new video segment Part 4 of 4 - a short 3:10 minute demo/sample video clip on the Northern Everglades channel.  This concludes the demo/sample clips of video stories on YouTube.  We will continue to post other segments and clips.  A new teaser will be coming soon along with a trailer.

View at:  http://youtu.be/ujuvjEGKmqY

YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NorthernEverglades

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A few new sponsors that have joined the project this month are:  Robert Culpepper and The Felburn Foundation which provided a matching grant.

Plans are to go into the audio recording studio to record Jim Fowler's narrative in the next few weeks.  We have collected a great collection of old archive photos (Florida Archives) and several old film clips of the Kissimmee River before the canal and during the construction of the canal.  Also purchased the rights for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover to help tell the story of a super model, politician and environmentalist.   You will need to wait and hear the full story in the documentary.  Believe me, its a great story and it was a "game changer" in the history of the Everglades. 

"When there’s a place that becomes so a part of you, like the Kissimmee, like the Everglades ... it takes on, for me, a mystical, spiritual sort of a reality for my life.  It’s more than a tourist destination. It’s more than a nice place to visit, to go and recreate. It’s much more."  -- Terrence "Rock" Salt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Corps of Engineers

Thank you for your interest and support.

Elam Stoltzfus, Producer

For more information go to: www.NorthernEverglades.com

YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NorthernEverglades

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Morning cattle drive with Lefty Durando and cattle hands. Yeehaw Junction, FL

Part 3 of 4 Kissimmee Basin Northern Everglades Demo

Just did a re-edit on the audio mix.  Great music track by Ian Weir.
http://www.ianeweir.com/

Kissimmee Basin: the Northern Everglades overview

Project Overview

Fall, 2011

Throughout the centuries, the Everglades have inspired strong emotion and debate among soldiers and poets, politicians and citizens. Its history is as broad and sprawling as the “River of Grass” itself. Although many stories have been told about the Everglades from drainage to restoration, few have been told about where it all begins: the Kissimmee River Basin. Restoration and protection of the natural values of this vast, watery landscape may well hold the key to restoration of the Greater Everglades ecosystem..

The Kissimmee Basin: the Northern Everglades invites you to take a trip up the Kissimmee Valley back through time to discover the well reasoned, yet unforeseen consequences of a flood control project that turned the 103 mile-long meandering river full of life, into a 52-mile long, multi-million dollar over-engineered channel that over drained the surrounding wetlands, caused the disappearance of large flocks of wading birds and caused a significant decline of an abundant freshwater fishery.

Meet the cattle ranchers whose families have cared for the Kissimmee River Basin for generations.

Discover the high stakes surrounding Kissimmee’s future and how changes made to it’s waterway are directly affecting the well-being of millions of people and many species of fish and wildlife.

Witness innovative and collaborative solutions actively at work among interests traditionally in competition with one another..

Lush and ethereal cinematography and rare historic photos bring the Kissimmee’s story into sharp focus. In-depth interviews bring you face-to-face with the engineers, activists, ranchers, military personnel and politicians who populate the pages of this river’s history.

The Kissimmee Basin: the Northern Everglades takes an in-depth and fascinating look at how changing the Kissimmee River’s shape has, in turn, changed lives – and ultimately the history of this beautiful landscape.