In 2014 the environmental documentary film DamNation was released, a Stoecker Ecological & Felt Soul Media Production, Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, executive producer Patagonia.
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our nationalattitude 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 hasmoved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and otherwild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access.DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveriesmove 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.