America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie (2005)
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900 - in the space of a single lifetime - the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps. America's Lost Landscape examines the record of human struggle, triumph, and defeat that prairie history exemplifies, including the history and culture of America's aboriginal inhabitants. The story of how and why the prairie was changed by Euro-American settlement is thoughtfully nuanced.
Director: David O'Shields
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Murphy Guyer as Aldo Leopold (voice) |
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Annabeth Gish as Narrator |
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John Trudell as Black Hawk (voice) |
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Pauline Drobney as Self - Biologist |
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Dayton Duncan as Self - Writer |
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Lance Foster as Self - Landscape Historian |
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Laura Jackson as Self - Conservation Biologist |
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Wes Jackson as Self - Director, The Land Institute |
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Carl Leopold as Self - Botanist |
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Eileen Schuyler as Willa Cather (voice) |
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Anton Treuer as Self |
| Directing | David O'Shields | Director |
| Writing | David O'Shields | Writer |
