I've banded Steller's eiders at Izembek and am so grateful to see this video. It is a truly magnificent place and I will always cherish my memories of working there in both the summer and winter. I am so glad to hear the road project has been derailed!
Incredible, just the kind of awesome place that you are bursting to share with everyone but at the same time want it left alone. No road! Just leave this beautiful amazing place alone.
Thank you Gerrit. This documentary is wonderful!!!! I hope they don´t build this road in this wilderness. We need this kind of wildlife sanctuaries for animals.
Hi there. It looks like the land swap was deemed invalid by a judge a few weeks ago. Is there any update to this? It looks like the road will now not be built.
What a beautiful piece! When the wolves started howling at 11:25, I couldn't but think that it sounded like a dirge. For an invaluable place that could yet meet its end at the hands of man.
Oh my god this was an incredible piece. I lived on the Aleutian chain for three years. It's profound. Thanks for drawing attention to the road being planned. That would be a tragedy. Thanks for this beautiful imagery and story.
Thank you for this. It made me feel blessed to see this stunning landscape with all the life it contains and protects. The colours must have been stunning. What is happening now about the road? I have added this to my comment from 3 years ago. I hope this landscape remains intact
Ohhhhh - it looks so wild and pristine, thank you for sharing one of the last places wild animals can live without civilization encroaching into their home.
What a beautiful do umrntary of this wilderness place. I have signed n hought gorbyears for the Alaska Nationsl Wildlife Refuge to stay as it is n now I have another place to fight for. It makes my heart sing to know these places exist for all wildlife that came here to feed birth in peace n solitude. Thank you for this touchingly beautiful video.
Our poor, poor planet is much too close to her tipping point for us to be enacting policies that will only serve to push her over the edge. We must preserve whatever pristine wilderness remaining and re-wild much of that stolen from the animal nations. Blessed are the wild beings who never encounter a human. This brought tears knowing such intact wilderness still exists on our ravaged planet.
Very well done, similar in quality to BBC, looking forward to more :) please don't let them build the roads and effect the wildlife meant to be protected by the refuge status of the area. :(
this was absolutely spectacular. I've written my letters advocating to keep this wilderness intact, but not enough people understand the assault that could occur. I'll be sharing this widely, esp now that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the Trump and Biden administrations’ favor, putting Izembek at risk once again.
please put out some information on how to protest against the proposed road. it is useless to 'hope' that the road won't be built; we need to fight it. is there no organisation out there organising some sort of protest/ the collection of signatures against the proposal?
Global warming is melting the Arctic Ocean ice and Alaska permafrost. The lowest swampy islands at the heart of the wildlife refuge will soon be submerged. Any road in this area would quickly be washed away by wind and high tides. There is a complete absence of rational thought in proposing a destructive, short lived road to connect two small villages. The process of global warming is already irreversible. Travelling between these two villages by boat or plane are more realistic and less destructive alternatives. How many years ago were the survey markers for the road placed? Was the surveying authorized and paid for even when it could be predicted that sections of the road would be under water and destroyed by storms? Thank you for making this beautiful documentary. However, something is wrong at a different level, by proposing and surveying a road that would never be usable due to climate change. What a waste of tax dollars, which is government as usual.
@@mars54mars54 Cold Bay airport is long and large and planes can get in an out whereas they often cannot at King Cove. The proposed road would only be used for emergencies.
1:03 "Over two-thirds of its area is designated Wilderness. The highest level of Federal land protection in the United States". Roads can't be built in wilderness areas. You can't even ride a bicycle in Federal Wilderness.
To keep pushing the fallacious idea of an "empty wilderness", particularly when it is pitted against local communities that have used lands for much longer than white people, is incredibly lazy and very insensible at the present moment. This work purposefully empties the Aleutian landscape of its people and oversimplifies the landscape into an over-aestheticized abstraction that is unrealistic. It's contrasting in the worst possible ways to Cornell Lab's Voices of the Pacific Flyway, which is exemplary of the sort of vision we should be portraying instead. Very disappointed.
Industrial civilization destroys. Honestly, this video is more in protest of modern industrial society rather than against the indigenous people. Wild nature has a transcendental beauty that is tread upon by ruinous tracks. Always expanding and modernizing, never ceasing.
