Public Trust
Overview
There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.
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Cast
Hal Herring
Self - Journalist
Terry Tempest Williams
Self - Author
Angelo Baca
Self - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker
Spencer Shaver
Self - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters
Marshall Helmberger
Self - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper
Levi Lexvold
Self - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters
Douglas Brinkley
Self - Professor of History at Rice University
Patrick Shea
Self - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
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