Public Trust

Public Trust

The fight for America's public lands.

2020 · 96 min · ★ 10.0 · Documentary

There are 640 million acres of public land in the United States. But there are powerful forces, both in government and in corporate America, eager to plunder this bounty. David Garrett Byars’s eye-opening documentary travels to Alaska, into the red rock canyons of southern Utah, and to Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and exposes a land war going on under our very noses.

Directed by David Byars · Written by Lyman Smith

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