Past Activity

Film Screening: Land Trust

Start date: 01/25/2024
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 01/25/2024
End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Join us to watch the movie "Land Trust." We will meet at 1:30 at the entrance of the Museum, the film and discussion are from 2-3:30. From the description at the website: "LAND/TRUST (2022) documents the effort to restore the coastal prairie in the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve at Año Nuevo State Park, which encompasses the former site of Mitenne, a village of the Awaswas-speaking Quiroste people."

Additional details are available at this link: https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/film_screening_landtrust

Event Leader: Angie Ruzicka
Event Leader Phone: 541-521-6840
Event Leader Email: angie.ruzicka@gmail.com
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Conservation, Science, & Education
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Departure Location: See Trip Description
Rating: Easy
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Season: 2024
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required: Admission for the museum: General $6, Senior/Youth $4, and free to members of the museum
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Member Fees: —
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Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Conservation, Science, & Education
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Six folks watched the film screening of Land/Trust followed by a discussion at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. The film, produced by a woman for her Master of Fine Arts at UC Santa Cruz, documents the efforts of a non-federally recognized tribe, Amah Mutsun, in stewarding the land at Ana Nuevo State Park (between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz) on the CA coast. The tribe is working to reestablish coastal prairie habitat by removing species like Doug Fir that have encroached due to fire suppression and planting native species grown from seed on site. The project involves partnerships between the tribe, CA State Parks, researchers from the UC System (archeologists, ethnobotanists), and community members. Many thought provoking ideas: collaboration, goals for restoration, foodscapes, tending vs managing, and role of humans in the landscape.