“There are also certain sections where I really wanted to linger on the moving contrast between this space that was a golf course - a monoculture of non-native vegetation and human use - to the expansive and culturally inclusive natural habitat it has become, where you have everything from little kids planting plants to seniors, birders, people in wheelchairs, runners and all these people doing science projects through the university.” “We want to showcase this and have it be something that can inspire other people to do similar projects,” he said. Love views the piece as a historical document, recording a process that was incredibly ambitious, elaborate and grand in scale. That you kept capturing different parts of the project through time,” replied Stratton, director of ecosystem management at UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. “And I really appreciate, Michael, that you stuck with it. “And whenever anything big was happening with the restoration we’d come back and cover it.” “We filmed it over years in between other projects we were doing,” Love said. The film, like the restoration, was a far-sighted endeavor. Love caught word of the effort in its infancy, approaching project leader Lisa Stratton in 2011, just as the university and Trust for Public Land were negotiating the purchase of what was then Ocean Meadows Golf Course. And you couldn’t find a better example than this.” Stories where humans have been able to make an impact and actually create positive change in the environment.
“All my environmental films are really about trying to foment activism by showing good news stories. “One of the beautiful things about this film for me was to be able to follow this process over such a long trajectory and really see the site transform,” said director and producer Michael Love. 13 at 8:40 p.m., at the Metro 4 Theatre and Wednesday, Feb. “Bringing Back Our Wetland” will screen Monday, Feb. And now the resulting documentary is ready for its premier at the 2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which runs Feb. The project took nearly a decade to complete, officially marked as finished in the spring of 2022.įrom groundbreaking to grand opening, a film crew captured it all on camera. Fifty years after the upper Devereux Slough in Goleta was filled with topsoil to make way for a golf course, UC Santa Barbara embarked on a massive environmental undertaking: restore these wetlands to their natural state.
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