Sibley Film Examinse the Life of Ranger, Conservationist

Bud Moore

“Bud’s Place,” a film by George Sibley, will be screened at the library Friday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room.
District Ranger, soldier, fur trapper, wilderness advocate — Bud Moore was all of these. During a long career with the Forest Service, he was part of most of the key events in the history of conservation and public land management during the 20th century. 
Later at his sustainable forestry operation in Condon, he walked his talk about the values and virtues of living in harmony with the natural world.
His friend , Sibley, who has woven together recreations, historic films and photographs -- many taken by Moore along with new interviews to paint his portrait of this remarkable man.
Sibley has been a filmmaker for more than 40 years, mostly making educational films and documentaries.  In 2005, three of his Florida conservation documentaries were shown nationally on the DISH network’s satellite channel program  “Free Speech TV.”  His film “Lewis and Clark and US” was broadcast on Montana Public Television as part of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. 
Back in Florida “Smyrnea Lost and Found” told the story of the origins of what became the town of New Smyrna Beach and won the “Outstanding Preservation Media of  2007” award from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.
Sibley said he likes to choose projects which connect science and history, and has often filmed here in the west. “Shadows of David Thompson,” about an almost forgotten fur trader and early map maker, was shown on both Idaho and Montana PBS stations. “Ordeal By Fire” followed in this vein, combining a mini-history of wildfires in North America with a recreation of the big 1910 burn on the Idaho-Montana border, the biggest forest fire in North American history.
Sibley has done projects for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, and in June his film about the astronomer William Herschel was shown at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in the UK.
"Bud's Place" was produced with support from the Idaho Humanities Council – the state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities – the Montana Wilderness Association, the Society of American Foresters, and the Vital Ground Foundation.