America’s Wildest Refuge

2011 FESTIVAL
55 min.
Filmmaker: Lisa Oakley.
Tucked into a remote corner of Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a place where wilderness is experienced on an epic scale. Meet the early conservationists who helped establish the refuge, the Alaska Natives who rely upon it for their subsistence way of life, and those who look to it for economic sustenance. Get to know the refuge’s wildest residents, including caribou, bears, musk oxen, and the scientists studying them. Leave with a visceral sense of place, of the refuge’s natural bounty, of the crosscurrents that forged its past, and the challenges shaping its future.