Documentary Screening — Legendary Environmental Leader Aldo Leopold

The life and work of Aldo Leopold comes to the screen in “Green Fire” Oct. 18 at the Orcas Public Library

From the San Juan Preservation Trust

The San Juan Preservation Trust and the Orcas Island Public Library are pleased to co-host the documentary film Green Fire! Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time, on Thursday, October 18 at 6 pm. The film screening will be held at the Library and is free of charge.

Green Fire! is the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy. Green Fire shares highlights from Leopold’s extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how his conservation ethic extends to both people and the land, and how it continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world.

In conjunction with the film screening, the Preservation Trust and Library encourage community members to read A Sand County Almanac, Leopold’s memoir about the development of his personal conservation beliefs. The text was published posthumously in 1949 and remains to this day a classic for conservationists internationally. A Sand County Almanac is currently available at the Library.

Immediately following the screening on October 18, audience members will be invited to share their favorite passage from A Sand County Almanac.

For more information, please visit www.sjpt.org or contact Kathleen Foley, Preservation Trust Program Director, at 360/378-2461 or kathleenf@sjpt.org; or Phil Heikkinen, Orcas Island Public Library Director, at 360/376-4985 or pheikkinen@orcaslibrary.org.

About the San Juan Preservation Trust
Founded in 1979, the San Juan Preservation Trust (www.sjpt.org) is a nationally accredited private, non-profit and membership-based land trust dedicated to helping people and communities conserve land in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The Preservation Trust has permanently protected more than 260 properties, 37 miles of shoreline and 15,000 acres on 20 islands, including land now managed as public parks, nature preserves, wildlife habitat, and working farms and forests.

About the Orcas Island Public Library
The Orcas Island Public Library has a long history of serving and enriching the island community by offering access to books and other materials and information in a variety of formats and by providing a gathering place where ideas are shared and lifelong learning is encouraged. In addition to items available for checkout, the library offers downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, 24/7 online catalog and databases accessed via our website, free wireless internet, and videoconferencing. Visit our website at www.orcaslibrary.org to learn more about what the library has to offer.