Drawing on the words of Wallace Stegner in his famous ‘Wilderness Letter’ to Congress in 1960, this beautiful short film urges us to preserve our unique wilderness as a “means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”
Hipcamp – A Letter to Congress
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