the Enchantments Alliance
What happened to
The Enchantments?
Once celebrated as a crown jewel of America's public lands experiment, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness and its iconic Enchantment peaks now stand at a breaking point.
HOW MUCH ACCESS IS TOO MUCH?
Social-media-driven visitation and chronic underfunding strain the systems meant to protect it, forcing a reckoning over access, responsibility, and the future of wilderness in the 21st century.
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WILDERNESS GOES VIRAL?
The Dis-Enchantments--a documentary film produced by North Forty Productions--is an eye-opening, soul-searching film asking the hard questions:
How long can short-term, stopgap solutions continue to fall on the shoulders of local community volunteers striving to uphold wilderness protections that federal agencies can no longer fully support? How much access is too much? And can Wilderness survive the age of social media?
Through the personal journeys of Wilderness guardians and the social media influencers who have “discovered” the Enchantments, the film conveys the urgency of this moment. It is designed to inspire viewers to take action, to demand the investment of the resources needed to meet wilderness mandates, to support access limits in the most threatened ecosystems, and to join local conservation efforts before it's too late.
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