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Saving the Sierra: A Look at Three Communities
June 2, 2008
Catherine Stifter project co-director, Saving the Sierra
Jesikah Maria Ross project co-director, Saving the Sierra

Catherine Stifter and Jesikah Maria Ross travel California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, exploring communities struggling against development pressures.

Urban development threatens rural communities across America. People who live and work in these beautiful landscapes face some tough decisions about the future. In each place, we meet unlikely allies who came together to find grassroots solutions for sustaining both the environment and their ways of life. Most rural communities within driving distance of sprawling cities and suburbs face these issues. And most urban dwellers have been to a place just like the communities in these three stories.

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