Media
BLACK RAM RESOURCES
Here’s a link to a webinar hosted by Yale and Orion about old forests, with Robert Macfarlane and Robin Wall Kimmerer. They raise the Black Ram project as an example of what people/communities can do to make a difference at the policy as well as local level. To celebrate the release of a new anthology Old Growth, Robin Wall Kimmerer (who contributes the foreword) held a live web discussion with Robert Macfarlane and David Haskell. These authors brought a unique perspective on the legacy of trees in deep time. Watch: Old Growth Celebration With Robert Macfarlane, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and David Haskell
https://orionmagazine.org/article/2021-10-old-growth-video/
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Here’s an 8:46 documentary about Black Ram:
https://vimeo.com/507170946/393344cc65
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Here’s a link (via www.yaakvalley.org) to a column by Bill McKibben in The New Yorker about Black Ram
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Here’s a film that discusses Montana grizzlies and climate change.
https://savetheyellowstonegrizzly.org/the-beast-of-our-time
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Here’s a link to an article about Black Ram that appeared in The Land Desk:
https://www.landdesk.org/p/the-poster-forest-for-timber-greed?s=r
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Here’s a link to an article by Bill McKibben in Substack
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/douse-the-fires?s=r
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For an article about the guitar that is being made from a section of ancient spruce at the edge of the proposed Black Ram deforestation, read the Freeman’s Biannual issue on “Change”
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Here’s a link to a webinair /concert/celebration of Black Ram and other old forests by Disability United and Marina Tsaplina, the Buffalo Weavers, and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SPDWqNLT8&feature=youtu.be
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Here’s a link to a webinair with John Freeman about the guitar and ancient forests at the Los Angeles Public Library
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1176220842903411
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Here’s a link to a PechaKucha presentation on Black Ram:
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Here’s a link to a short (60 second) video by Kier Atherton about Black Ram:
https://vimeo.com/350347847/a34ddb15a3?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=1669416
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The Winter 2021 issue of The Massachusetts Review contains an essay about Black Ram—Volume 62, Issue 4, Climate—“Beneath the Overstory”
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47024
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Here’s a link to a blog about Black Ram on the website of the Center for Biological Diversity
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Here’s a link to a fact sheet about the proposed Black Ram 57MMBF timber sale in the Yaak Valley on the Kootenai National Forest
http://yaakvalley.org/stop-blackram/
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Here’s a link to an op-ed in the Missoulian about Black Ram on the International Day of Forests, March 20, 2022
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Here’s a link to a short video about Black Ram by Ben Weaver:
https://vimeo.com/580118979?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=46876650
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Here’s a link to an article by Rick Bass about Black Ram in Big Sky Journal:
https://bigskyjournal.com/outside-unit-72/
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Here’s a link to an article by Rick Bass in Orion:
https://orionmagazine.org/2022/01/from-the-oldest-forest-in-montana/
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Here’s a link to the December 2021 issue of Orion, with the cover photo of Black Ram.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-animate-earth/
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Scientific American—March 19, 2024
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-forests-protect-themselves/
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RA Beattie trailer:
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June 2025 Cowboys & Indians Magazine: https://www.cowboysindians.com/2025/06/music-from-the-enchanted-forest/
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Outside Magazine: October 2024—
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/yaak-valley-black-ram-old-growth/
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High Country News—Sept. 19, 2025:
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/what-old-growth-forests-have-to-do-with-your-food/
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High Country News Podcast: https://radiocafe.media/downtoearth-hcn/
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Missoulian op-ed Dec. 27, 2025—We Will Not Be Crushed
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Winter 2026 Mountain Outlaw. https://www.mtoutlaw.com/songs-from-a-climate-refuge/
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Montana Quarterly
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Anarchist Review
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March 21, 2025—The Revelator: