The Nature Conservancy and Green Mountain College invite you to join us for an amazing evening focused on river health. DamNation is an award winning, riveting film that sheds a new light on America's dams. Admission is free so invite your friends and neighbors. Doors will open at 5:30pm and the film will begin at 6:00 on Wednesday, January 27th at Green Mountain College, Withey Hall, East Room.

Here in Vermont our dams may not be considered big but they are plentiful--there are over 1,000 dams on Vermont's waterways. An estimated 200 of these are considered "deadbeat" dams, meaning that they serve no utility or purpose. The Nature Conservancy and its partners are working to remove "deadbeat" dams from Vermont's waterways. Join us for an engaging discussion about restoring our rivers and streams.

A panel discussion will immediately follow the film with Rose Paul, Director of Critical Lands and Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy, and Brian Fitzgerald, River Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy and Vermont Natural Resources Council.

About the film: This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature. DamNation. (2014, November 22). Retrieved January 5, 2016, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3345206/

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