Endowment Video Spotlights Healthy Watersheds Work

Water.  It’s everywhere, or almost so.  Yet, in a nation with more than 308 million inhabitants, water — especially safe drinking water — could well become the defining natural resource issue of the 21st Century.  Strengthening the link between clean water and healthy forests is vital to ensure that future generations will have the water they need.

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today entered the YouTube-Era with the production and posting of its first video spotlighting the organization’s work in its “Healthy Watershed through Healthy Forests” initiative.  “As an entity that operates with a very lean staff model (only 5 full-time employees) we depend heavily on the work of one or more interns to help advance our mission,” said Endowment Senior Vice President Peter Stangel.

“The work, by our 2011 Intern Michelle McGee, is indicative of  the value we gain from the on-going Internship Program,” Stangel said.   Michelle also played an important role helping organize the Endowment’s April, 2011 Water Convening, that brought together 60 experts to help identify important next steps in the development of water markets as a strategy to help conserve and better manage forested watersheds.

McGee and Kevin Pearce, who has his pilot’s license, filmed the video.  She wrote and narrated the storyline.