Big Cypress Swamp the western Everglades
(DVD)

Produced and directed by Elam Stoltzfus ; additional cameras, Peter Winter, Ryan Ziglar, Doug Gritzmacher ; writer, Jane Atkins ; editor, Ian Weir ;

Narrator, Peter Thomas. Featuring photographer Clyde Butcher, Time magazine correspondent Michael Grunwald, conservationist Joe Browder, environmentalist Nat Reed, National Park Service chief Robert DeGross, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Director Gary Lytton, Division of Forestry Resource administrator Kevin Podkowka, Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge manager Layne Hamilton, biologist Mike Owen, photographer Rick Cruz, outreach specialist Lisa Andrews, Florida Wildlife Federation director Franklin Adams, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary director Ed Carlson, and Leroy Henehayo Osceola, who teaches his sons how to live with native traditional ways.

The Big Cypress Swamp, an ancient region of the Everglades, is one of Earth's great treasures. This is the story of Florida's River of Grass, highlighting people who share their passion for this wild place, seasons of scenery and footage of the remarkable plant and animal life of the wetland.