Public Trust

Public Trust

96 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 2020

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.

Public Trust

96 mins | Documentary | Feb. 17, 2020

Public Trust

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.

IMDb rating	8.2
Producers	Patagonia
Original title	Public Trust
Directors	David Byars
Writers	Lyman Smith

Cast

Hal Herring

as Self - Journalist

Terry Tempest Williams

as Self - Author

Angelo Baca

as Self - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker

Spencer Shaver

as Self - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters

Marshall Helmberger

as Self - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper

Levi Lexvold

as Self - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters

Douglas Brinkley

as Self - Professor of History at Rice University

Patrick Shea

as Self - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

James G. Watt

as Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)

Charles Wohlforth

as Self - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News