The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film

2005 FESTIVAL
120 min.
The Greatest Good is a professionally produced high-definition documentary by and about the U.S. Forest Service. Countering “unchecked exploitation”; of natural resources, the Service’s visionary founders successfully enshrined the values of their still-young conservation movement with policies and practice of the U.S. government. By the film’s own admission, it’s been a rocky road since then. It poses a valid question: In the face of a changing “vision,”; shaped by new scientific understanding, whatis today’s “greatest good?”