30.) Multimedia: “Voices of the Tongass- Real Voices, Real Impacts.”

Source Notes

Title: Voices of the Tongass- Real Voices, Real Impacts.

 

 

 

 

Summary:

In “Voices of the Tongass- Real Voices, Real Impacts,” a video created by the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), two citizens of Ketchikan, which is near the Tongass National Forest, comment on logging, conservation, the future of the Tongass, and the impact the forest has had on their lives.

 

 

 

 

Topic:

Citizens comment on Tongass development.

 

 

 

Category:

Multimedia/ Institutional.

 

 

 

What is it?

Online video.

 

 

 

Publication Information:
Published by the Natural Resource Defense Council on January 18^th, 2009.

 

Author(s):

NRDC.

Greenpeace.

Sierra Club.

Photography by John Hyde.

 

 

 

Location:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcEkMO5w5U

 

Accessed:

March 6^th, 2009.

 

 

 

 

Support:

 

Larry O’ Loane, resident of Ketchikan—near the Tongass National Forest.

 

Victoria McDonald, resident of Ketchikan—near the Tongass National Forest.

 

In two candid interviews, locals of Ketchikan (near the Tongass National Forest) comment on the impact of recent changes to conservation policy and the economic and sentimental value of preserving the Tongass. Larry O’ Loane, an advocate for increasing protection of the Tongass, states that the Tongass is “an irreplaceable resource. If you cut down a thousand year old tree, than your kids are never going to see one, you’re grand kids are never going to see one. Once it’s gone, it’s never coming back.” Victoria McDonald, a resident of Ketchikan, comments on logging in the Tongass National Forest: “It’s not something we can ever capture or control, it’s out there. There’s something about a wild area that I think captivates a lot of people and they come up here to see that wild. I hope the Tongass is still available for them to visit (her grand children).”

 

 

 

Audience and Agenda:

The National Resource Defense Council web site (NRDC.org) reaches over 129 thousands U.S monthly people. The site is popular a slightly female, more educated group. The typical visitor reads the Nation, attends Stanford, and subscribes to National Geographic.

 

 

 

 

Usefulness:

The information I have gathered on the Tongass has been centered on the facets of its unique ecosystem old-growth, primary litigation, and the economics of timber in the region. However, these two candid citizen interviews provide real voices and concerns to the cause. They put a face to the ideas, concerns, and hopes of conservation for the Tongass National Forest.

 

Works cited:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcEkMO5w5U

 

www.quantcast.com

 

 

Advertisement