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[Catherine Stifter] and ross believe these stories can not only connect the Sierra's 2 million residents to one another and to the places they love; the tales can also awaken the millions of people who live outside the mountain range to the issues that threaten it. "The more we celebrate what people are doing in the Sierra, the more people will understand and be moved by it," says ross.
The two women concocted their project in the waistdeep waters of the Yuba River on the Sierra's western slope. They have similar career backgrounds - Suiter's mostly in radio, ross' in video - and share an appreciation for people with dirt-level connections to their homes. Wading among the Yuba's granite boulders, they traded secrets about their favorite haunts. And they confided their fears for the Sierra, whose population is expected to triple by 2040. With urban sprawl and air pollution already oozing up the foothills and into the mountains that span 400 miles along the California-Nevada border, Stifter and ross decided to coax people into getting involved by documenting local stories.Ross and Stifter are betting their high-tech recording equipment that the voices of real people talking passionately about what they know will trigger something deep within their radio and Internet audiences. "If you don't drop the pebbles, you don't have ripples," says Stifter. "That's what we're doing: dropping rocks."See the full content of this document
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Saving the Sierra, Tale by Tale
Jesikah maria rosa' hair erupts in henna-red spikes as she pulls on a headset, pokes a microphone at Roger Lessman and nods across the room to Catherine Stifter: Let the interview begin.
"What does conservation mean to you?" Stifter asks Less...See the full content of this document
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