29.) Multimedia: “Roadless is More: Taking Care of Our National Forests.”

Source Notes

 

Title: Roadless is More: Taking Care of Our National Forests.

 

 

 

 

 

Summary:

In an online video entitled “Roadless is More: Taking Care of Our National Forests”, the Outdoor Alliance, an organization dedicated to the “conservation and stewardship of our nation’s public lands,” provides interesting commentary on the facts, stipulations, and the future progression of the Roadless Rule Conservation Act of 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

Topic:

Roadless area facts.

Category:

 

 

 

Institutional.

 

 

 

 

What is it.

Online video.  

 

 

 

 

Publication Information:

Published by the Outdoor Alliance on

 

 

 

 

Author:

Adam Cramer and Thomas O’Keefe.  

 

 

 

 

Location:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=roadless%20rule%20multimedia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#hl=en&emb=0&q=outdoor+alliance

 

 

 

 

Accessed:

March 6^th, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

Support:

To support their argument, the Outdoor Alliance uses multimedia in juxtaposition with a narration that informs the viewer on the roadless rule. The various forms of multimedia (ambient and natural audio, video, and images) provide the viewer with a sense of the roadless area history, magnitude (amount of roads), and those in peril. The multimedia presentation begins with action video of several outdoor recreations (kayaking and skiing). To provide context, the presentation shows old photos of logging and national forest roads being created. The film attends to an overall theme of roadless area conservation and the rejuvenation to roads already in place.

 

 

 

 

Audience and Agenda:

The Outdoor Alliance is comprised of the American Canoe Association (ACA), Access Fund, American Hiking Society (AHS), American Whitewater (AW), International Mountain Bicycle Association (IMBA), and the Winter Wildlands Alliance. Outdoor Alliance is a non-profit organization that relies on donation and private interest funding for support. The organization shapes environmental policy, invokes proactive citizen support of these issues, and also provides information and news regarding policy. According to quantcast.com, the amount of individuals the site reaches is non-quantifiable at the moment.

 

 

 

 

 

Usefulness:

The Outdoor Alliance provides information on the development, uses, and economic benefits of roads in national forests over the last hundred years. “We have built more than 380 thousand miles of road in our national forests.” However, there are a few remote forests that do not have any roads at all. Roadless areas, as they are known, “provide millions of people with clean air and drinking water and include some of the largest intact ecosystems in the United States.” In these places, everything remains the same untamed wilderness as when we originally thought the “world was flat.” Contrary to popular belief, “the most precious roadless areas can be found just outside major cities.” “There is almost nine miles of forest roads to every one mile of highway in our national highway system.”

 

 

 

 

 

Works cited:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=roadless%20rule%20multimedia&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#hl=en&emb=0&q=outdoor+alliance

 

 

 

 

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