America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

2005 FESTIVAL
60 min.
America’s Lost Landscapedepicts the changes to Midwestern landscape during the past 150 years. Once covering 28 million acres of North America, and 80 percent of Iowa alone, today’s tallgrass prairie is largely converted to farmland. Narrated by actress Annabeth Gish (West Wing), America’s Lost Landscape seeks to enlighten audiences of the importance and legacy of the prairie. The film documents the prairie’s past at the hands of Native Americans and Euro-Americans, and innovative efforts to preserve its future. Director David O’Shields and biologist Daryl Smith are guests of ACFF ’05.