Many talented and generous people contributed their time in making Forever Wild: Celebrating America’s Wilderness. Most of the people we met and worked with appear in the film; others do not. In each case, the individuals we encountered were very interested in wilderness, in the simple message of celebration communicated by the film, and in helping out. First Light Films gratefully acknowledges the participation of everyone we had the opportunity to work with.
Produced and Directed by
CHELSEA CONGDON
Filmed and Edited by
JAMES BRUNDIGE
Special Thanks to:
Robert Redford
Doug Scott - Campaign for America’s Wilderness
Author of “Our Wilderness: America’s Common Ground”
"The Enduring Wilderness"
Terry Tempest Williams – Excerpts read from :
"Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert"
"The Open Space of Democracy”
STEVE ALLDREDGE, associate producer
SCOTT McKRACKEN reading John Muir, Wallace Stegner, and Henry Thoreau
JOYCE DEEP
TOM SKEELE, JIM ROSCOE, American Wildlands
DAVE REED, The Wilderness Workshop
RYAN HENSON , California Wilderness Coalition
The Friends of Wild River
The Friends of the Sandwich Range
LYNN STONE, Boulder White Clouds Council
RICK JOHNSON, Idaho Conservation League
RANDY RAMSLEY
RAY BLOXHAM, Southeren Utah Wilderness Alliance
CHUCK BLIXRUD, GENE SENTZ
KARL AND TERRY RAPPOLD
LINDA HARRAR, Script Consultant
ROD NASH
HARVEY LOCKE, Yellowstone to Yukon
BRAD CHILTON
Congressman MIKE SIMPSON
GLORIA FLORA
ERIK SHULTZ
SALLY OTTOSON
JIM WATTENBERGER
TIM MCFLYNN
U.S. Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
National Park Service
RED PAW TECHNOLOGIES, Graphics
TRAVIS FULTON, Pilot
MARK HARRIS, Pilot
Photographs and Stock Footage Provided by:
Peter SmartDean Bennett
The Wilderness Society
Library of Congress
Leopold Foundation/ University of Wisconsin
National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center
Zahniser Family, James Marshall, Photographer
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Bill Gove
Michael Evenson
Bob Schneider
High Plains Films
U.S. Forest Service
Weyerhaeuser Company
Corbis
California Wilderness Coalition
Music written and performed by
JEFF VAN NOSTRAND
JAMES BRUNDIGE
with
BILL PARISH, Alto Flute
TWIRP ANDERSON, banjo and vocal
KATIE HONE WILTGEN, vocal
MATTHEW LODEN, violin
TASHI BRUNDIGE, vocal
MILES BRUNDIGE, guitar
MO MO YA, cello
Film Credits