Join us in cozy Heron Hall for a mid-week movie night, complete with hot tea, cookies, and popcorn! This beautiful and compelling film (2010, 62 minutes) by Ann and Steve Dunsky is about the 50+ year effort to protect San Bruno Mountain and its rare butterflies. The mountain is San Francisco's lost landscape, a mostly intact remnant of the ecosystem that once covered the city's hills. It is the site of the nation's first Habitat Conservation Plan, a controversial compromise that trades development for additional habitat preservation and management. Told with humor and insight by participants and observers alike, Butterflies & Bulldozers is a story about the rights of nature and the rights of people, about compromise and commitment, and the tough choices we all have to make.
As a special treat, the filmmakers themselves, Steve and Ann Dunsky, will join us afterwards for a question and answer period and to discuss similarities between the struggle to protect San Bruno Mountain and our efforts to preserve and restore the Laguna de Santa Rosa.
"Filmmakers Ann and Steve Dunsky describe the ultimate conservation dilemma...Butterflies & Bulldozers is a case study for conservation leaders who struggle every day over decisions that can literally affect the survival of a species." --Bill Meadows, President, The Wilderness Society
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"Through the lens of this one struggle, the film captures themes in the broader transformation of our approach to nature over the past half-century. ...This is a story that will speak to our granchildren long after we are gone." --Federico Cheever, Professor of Law, University of Denver
62 minutes
Grades 9-12, College-Adults
