Bruce Experiences: Sunday Cinema–Beyond the Trees
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 2–4:00 PM, Gale and Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., and Pamela and Robert Goergen Auditorium
Pioneering a unique management model that blends conservation with finance, a determined group of conservationists, scientists, and investors fight to restore our native forests which serve as complex, life-sustaining climate champions, and vital economic resources for millions of people.
Produced in collaboration with Imaginary Forces and VanEck, the award-winning, 30-minute documentary “Beyond the Trees” is a Big Sur Film Festival Award Winner, Winner of Best Environmental Film at the LA Documentary Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Paramount Film Festival, as well as Official Selection of the Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Venice Shorts, Silicon Beach Film Festival and Nature Now Film Festival, among others.
Bruce Experiences is generously sponsored by Bank of America.
Laurie Wayburn bio:
Laurie Wayburn is Co-founder and President of Pacific Forest Trust. Ms. Wayburn is an accomplished forest and conservation innovator who advises policymakers at the state, regional, national, and international levels. She pioneers new approaches to develop sustainable resource economies using her deep experience in the fields of conservation, ecosystem services, and sustainability. A preeminent authority on the climate and ecosystem benefits of forests, she leads efforts enacting climate change and other ecosystem service policies that unite conservation and sustainable management with market-based approaches. She currently chairs the AB 1757 Expert Advisory Committee whose work has set ambitious climate targets for California’s Natural and Working Lands. Recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation, James Irvine Foundation, and EPA Climate Leadership awards, Ms. Wayburn is a frequent speaker, writer, and media commentator on effective incentives for conservation and sustainable resource management.
Prior to co-founding Pacific Forest Trust with Constance Best in 1993, Ms. Wayburn worked internationally for 10 years in the United Nations Environment Program and Ecological Sciences Division of UNESCO. She later served as Executive Director of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and was the Founder and first Coordinator of the Central California Coast Biosphere Reserve. Ms. Wayburn is a graduate of Harvard University and currently serves on the Land Trust Alliance Leadership Council.
About Pacific Forest Trust
Since 1993, the Pacific Forest Trust has been dedicated to conserving and sustaining America’s vital, productive forest landscapes. Working with forest owners, communities, and an array of partners, we advance innovative, incentive-based strategies to safeguard our nation’s diverse forests. In so doing, we’re ensuring forests continue to provide people everywhere—from rural communities to urban centers—with a wealth of benefits, including clean water, sustainably harvested wood, green jobs, wildlife habitat, and a livable climate.
So far, we have conserved 360,000+ acres of vital forestland in the Pacific Northwest, currently hold 37 conservation easements covering 130,000+ acres in California and Oregon. We also manage 5 working forests as models of our forestry approach, including the Van Eck Forests featured in the award-winning film, “Beyond the Trees.”
https://www.pacificforest.org/
To learn more about the film, please visit: https://www.pacificforest.org/beyond-the-trees/.
