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In a single generation 99% of the native Iowa prairies were lost forever.
Is there any "wild" left in Iowa?

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Editor: Kevin Railsback Rating: 4.50

Equipment: Bogen 503 Panasonic HVX200 Apple Final Cut Pro

Videography / Cinematography: Kevin Railsback Rating: 4.50

Tags: Iowa river water

Equipment: Bogen 503 Panasonic HVX200 Apple Final Cut Pro

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Shiv Kumar

March 14, 2008 08:24 PM

Kevin,

I've seen this video many months ago. If I'm not mistaken it was a different edit as well. Could it be so?

Obviously you're a nature/wilderness man and your concern shows in this video.
The ending was well done I thought. Your message hit home real hard.

Kevin Railsback

March 14, 2008 09:07 PM

Same edit, nothing different. I did want to go in and change some things but time is always at a premium for me. Maybe someday. :)

Peg Futrell

April 15, 2008 06:09 PM

Great story telling with a nature video

This is great story telling with a nature video as its medium. Although the land still looks awesomely beautiful, I can only imagine what it must have looked like to the earlier inhabitants -- with fields of tall grasses stretching as far as the eye can see, as this nature short instructs us.

Mark Williams

July 20, 2008 07:46 PM

Keith,
Very good story and powerful. I have been a park ranger for 30+ years in the southern Smokey mountains and have seen the environment change dramatically during this time. I think of the Costner movie Dancing With Wolves and wonder just how majestic the prairies once was.

Regards,
Mark
natureflixs.com

Kevin Railsback

July 20, 2008 09:34 PM

It's sad to see it all vanishing before our eyes.

I had a call from the local nature center to come and film some land they wanted to save from developers and have to raise over $300k by the end of the year.

The land was incredible, hills and valleys, ridges, even a creek.

The developer wanted to put million dollar homes on the land and was touting how it backed up to the natural areas of the nature center.

Kind of ironic that they would destroy the very type of land they were using as a selling point.

Hopefully Maple Ridge can be saved and it will look like it does now for generations to come.

Mark Williams

July 20, 2008 10:27 PM

Yea, I know what you mean. Perhaps the economic slow-down will give the land a bit of a reprieve. We are seeing some of that in my area. What people don't want to believe is that once its gone, it is gone for good.

Regards,
Mark