In upstate New York, Gene Baur and his Farm Sanctuary is the focus of one of the key domestic chapters in Sanctuary. It was also a key filming location for DSF’s “Mad Cowboy”. DSF was honored to be… Continue reading
In profiling the most celebrated urban refuge in North America for Sanctuary, the 843 acre Central Park in Manhattan, DSF was fortunate to work with artist Cal Vornberger, one of the great photographers of birdlife in the world. For more than three years, Cal has made a daily pilgrimage into the park with his cameras to document… Continue reading
DSF chose to highlight Wrangell-St.Elias National Park and Preserve for its Sanctuary book for several reasons. One, it is the largest park in the United States. And, in combination with the contiguous preserves and parks in Canada, it forms… Continue reading
For the Sanctuary book project, DSF worked to document and chronicle critical efforts by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. With the generous assistance of Joelle Buffa, former manager of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge and supervisor… Continue reading
In the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, working with Dr. Raymond M. Sauvajot, Supervisory Ecologist with the National Park Service and his colleagues Dr. Seth Riley and others, DSF endeavored to portray the story of the last remaining mountain lions attempting to live in… Continue reading
The DSF “Hotspots” crew filmed at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Central California, where the rare San Joaquin kit foxes, pronghorn antelopes, sandhill cranes, blunt-nosed leopard lizards, San Joaquin antelope squirrels and giant kangaroo rats, as well as unique alkaline salt flats and native… Continue reading
Working with wildlife biologist Sayre Flannagan of the Ventana Wildlife Society, DSF recorded over a dozen California condors in Big Sur. The condor is the largest bird in North America whose rescue — from the brink of extinction — constitutes one… Continue reading
DSF documented at least nine of the 31 newly discovered invertebrate species in the caves of Sequoia National Park, working with cave specialist and international explorer, Dr. Joel D. Despain and his associate Benjamin Tobin. These new species include a springtail, millipede, pseudo-scorpion and spiders that (probably) exist nowhere in the world other than the two caves where… Continue reading
With the generous assistance of William Berry, Head of Resource Management Division, as well as that of Commanding Officer Colonel Seaton and their respective staffs, sequences for “Hotspots” were filmed throughout the 125,000 acre Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton with its vast… Continue reading
