TRACKING NOTES: Film Screening Series at the Westerly Library with Green Planet Films

Description

The Westerly Library is excited to present a 3-part film series with Green Planet Films, a local non-profit that distributes documentary films focusing on nature, the environment, and human ecology. For each screening, representatives from Green Planet Films will give a brief introduction to the film.

For the second screening, Oct 18, 2023 in our series, we're showing a film for big wild cat lovers "TRACKING NOTES: The Secret World of Mountain Lions". You can view the trailer HERE.

A unique, non-invasive, mountain lion study uses a giant network of trail cameras scattered throughout the mountains over a decade coupled with interviews with MPG Ranch staff and volunteers in Montana, the filmmakers pieced together the life story of the area’s mountain lions. Genetic data gleaned from hair and other samples, in combination with the video footage, has allowed the researchers to trace the life histories of individual mountain lions and their complex interactions with one another, other wildlife, and the rest of the surrounding forest world into a story that contains never-before-captured events and behaviors at every turn.

Popcorn will be provided. This program is free and open to all ages.