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Places Volume 5

On Assignment with conservation photographer Jerry Monkman.

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Feature-length documentary to be<br />

released this summer<br />

The Merrimack River is the birthplace<br />

of the industrial revolution<br />

in America. Factories in cities like<br />

Manchester, New Hampshire and<br />

Lowell, Massachusetts were the<br />

largest textile mills in the world in<br />

the 19th century. Like many rivers in<br />

America, the Merrimack was heavily<br />

polluted by the 1960’s, but due to the<br />

Clean Water Act, the Merrimack has<br />

been cleaned up considerably since<br />

then. Remarkably, more than 80%<br />

of the Merrimack watershed is still<br />

undeveloped and largely forested,<br />

yet in 2016 the river was named<br />

one of the most endangered rivers<br />

in the US by American Rivers. Since<br />

then, I have been working with the<br />

Society for the Protection of New<br />

Hampshire Forests to produce a<br />

film that tells the Merrimack’s<br />

story and explains why the river is<br />

in trouble today. Almost four years<br />

later, we have finished that film –<br />

The Merrimack: River at Risk. The<br />

pandemic has shuttered our plans<br />

for theater screenings for the time<br />

being, but I’m proud to announce<br />

the film’s broadcast premier will be<br />

on July 23rd when it will air on New<br />

Hampshire PBS.<br />

https://ecophotography.com/a-new-film-the-merrimack-river-at-risk/<br />

SUMMER 2020 ECOPHOTOGRAPHY 5

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