River Restoration Northwest is back in Seattle at Northwest Film Forum for the 6th annual Stories of Our Watersheds event. The films selected for this edition represent a diverse set of rivers and watersheds from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Selected films share stories from a variety of conservation organizations, tribes, watershed councils, agencies, filmmakers, as well as people simply enjoying their rivers and lakes.

Learn the story of the 3 crabs estuary restoration efforts in Sequim, Washington.

Bringing Back the Light speaks to the methods, the practices and the importance of forest habitat restoration in British Columbia.

Wyatt Visuals and Burke Electric Media beautifully illustrate the work Central Westcoast Forest Society does and highlights the values of wildlife habitat restoration. Funding for this film was provided by the Sitka Foundation.

The history of the Siuslaw Watershed starts with the native people it is named for, the Siuslaw People. The stewardship of their river and surrounding lands by its earliest inhabitants cannot be overstated. In this video, Jesse Beers, Siuslaw Tribal Member and Cultural Stewardship Manager with the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI), addresses the ecological changes and impacts from the time of Tribal management beginning thousands of years ago to the more recent management of today.

100 years of wildfire suppression has ironically created a more volatile forest landscape than ever. This short film thoughtfully explores the opportunities and challenges of living with wildfire.

Follow a high school teacher and his students as they learn about freshwater mussels in their local river, and discover the concerning population trends that are being seen in these long lived animals.

Take a few minutes to learn more about one of the Northwest’s imperiled frog species, and how biologists and partners are working to protect its stronghold habitats in Oregon’s Deschutes River basin.

Produced in Partnership with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, in Cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife.

Whychus Creek is coming back to life after a 9 phase piping project that has modernized Three Sisters Irrigation District and restored year-round flows in the iconic creek that runs through Sisters, Oregon.

RiversEdge West captures the human spirit of riparian (riverside) restoration in their Riverside Stories series. Here we meet Bill Brandau; rancher, husband, and grandfather in Safford, Arizona. Bill understands that a healthy river is vital to sustaining his way of life in the arid Southwest and hopes to pass this knowledge down to his grandchildren.

The Skokomish River in Washington state has been so altered by the exploitation of natural resources that now the wild salmon become lost and have to cross roads to find home.

The history, origins and future of America’s largest Superfund Site, The Clark Fork River Montana Superfund Complex.

Discover one of the world’s most amazing water treatment (eco)systems. Follow the path of water from the rainforests of Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest to the Coastal communities that rely on fresh water.