
While filming in Yosemite, Michael Conti had an unexpected close encounter with a black bear — a reminder that the wilderness John Muir spent his life protecting is still very much alive, and still has the power to surprise us.
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While filming in Yosemite, Michael Conti had an unexpected close encounter with a black bear — a reminder that the wilderness John Muir spent his life protecting is still very much alive, and still has the power to surprise us.
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At a screening of The Unruly Mystic: John Muir in Fort Collins, Dr. Holmes Rolston III — "The Father of Environmental Ethics" — arrived unannounced at age 86. A reflection on what happens when a film draws the right audience.
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