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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https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/on-climate-bidens-administration-needs-to-combat-zombie-trumpism-quickly?fbclid=IwAR16mlkD1CXGRZjakhfXhAFYduVDlstcG_LOGV8yRkt6v26CnIcXSCr6360

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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:

https://youtu.be/HJBf2AOvGmI

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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

Climate-forests.org

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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

https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-one-day-amidst-the-centuries/article_eac74055-64f1-59ae-a3fe-cdeb5593546a.html

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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:

https://next.frame.io/share/94f3f937-e20c-47d0-8ccb-5ba17ddf700e/view/411992de-b786-4ae8-a0f9-5f4baef4cd30

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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:

https://therevelator.org/author/rbass/