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Public Trust

Release Year
2020
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
David Byars
Public Trust

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.

Cast & Crew

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)

James G. Watt

Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)

Charles Wohlforth

Self - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News

Crew

David Byars

Director

David Byars

Director of Photography

Drew Xanthopoulos

Director of Photography

Stephanie Nicora

Original Music Composer

Bill Reynolds

Original Music Composer

Lyman Smith

Editor

Jeremy Rubingh

Producer

Lyman Smith

Writer

Robert Redford

Executive Producer

Yvon Chouinard

Executive Producer

Rose Marcario

Executive Producer

Alex Lowther

Executive Producer

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