The ends of the earth

The ends of the earth
Student Jury Award 2013
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by John Grabowska –Produced by: John Grabowska, United States National Park Service – U.S.A. 2013 – Running time: 56 min. – Featured areas: Katmai National Park, Aniakchac National Preserve, Alaska, U.S.A.

The Alaska Peninsula is a cloud-cloaked land of steaming volcanoes, rolling tundra and the greatest concentration of the largest bears on earth. The writings of the scientist Loren Eiseley inspire this filmic essay on a landscape where bears outnumber people and the sockeye salmon run is the most prolific in the world. At the base of the peninsula lies Katmai National Park, a wilderness larger Yellowstone and Yosemite -- combined. Farther down the peninsula a giant volcanic caldera emerges on the horizon, so remote that more people climb Everest than visit Aniakchak. Alaska is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the planet. "The Ends of the Earth" asks how anthropogenic climate change effects will impact this magnificent land of wilderness and wildlife.

 

(Photo courtesy Roy Wood)