Public Trust

Synopsis

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.

Details

Director

David Byars

Release

February 17, 2020

Status

Released

Network

Patagonia

Runtime

1h 36m

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Where to watch

Streaming data by JustWatch

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

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