Turning point: rescue of a river | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

History of citizen action for the protection of the Wilamet River in Oregon, U.S.A., and the current program - Project Foresight - for the preservation of open space and the limiting of urban sprawl so that both the Wilamet Valley and the Wilamet River remain free of cumulating industrial wastes and continue to be agriculturally fertile and productive

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Collection

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Credits

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012517

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Agriculture

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Oregon (U.S.A.)

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Environmental protection - Citizen participation

Places → Oregon (U.S.A.)

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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