Public Trust

Public Trust

202096 min
10.0/10
Documentary

Plot Summary

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.

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Official trailer from TMDB

👥Cast (12)

Hal Herring

Hal Herring

Self - Journalist

Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

Self - Author

Angelo Baca

Angelo Baca

Self - Navajo/Hopi Filmmaker

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Spencer Shaver

Self - Conservation Director, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters

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Marshall Helmberger

Self - Editor, The Timberjay Newspaper

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Levi Lexvold

Self - Regional Organizer, Save the Boundary Waters

Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley

Self - Professor of History at Rice University

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Patrick Shea

Self - Former Director, Bureau of Land Management

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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James G. Watt

Self - Secretary of the Interior (archive footage)

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Charles Wohlforth

Self - Author/Reporter, Anchorage Daily News

🎬Crew

Director

David Byars

Writers

Lyman Smith

Producers

Monika McClure, Rose Marcario, Alex Lowther, Josh Nielsen, Yvon Chouinard

🖼️Gallery (5 images)

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Production Companies

Patagonia