UNWON with Keely Covello

In honor of National Ag Day, I’m beyond excited to share the trailer for a film project very close to my heart. You Just Can’t See Them From the Road is my first full-length documentary. My sister Michaela and I had been wanting to shoot a film on the vanishing ranches of the American West for some time when California Rangeland Trust approached us. They gave us enormous trust and creative freedom...

Nate Chisholm is a grazing ecologist and rancher currently based in Kenya, where he is studying the impact of megafauna on savanna grassland ecosystems. For years, he ranched in Marin and Sonoma counties, including Point Reyes. He has amassed a decade of scientific research on the impact of grazing in environments very similar to Point Reyes, where a group of 12 ranchers are currently being remove...

Albert Straus is a legend in organic farming and the regenerative food movement. He is the founder of Straus Family Creamery, the oldest certified organic creamery in the United States. He has been an outspoken advocate and champion for the farmers and ranchers on Point Reyes, fighting tirelessly for his neighbors. His creamery sources milk from dairies on the peninsula. In 1940, there were 4.6 mi...

It was a real honor to speak with private forestry consultant Craig Blencowe, a leader in sustainable forest management. I asked Craig about timberland management, fire prevention, what’s changed in the American timber industry, spotted owls, bark beetles, what has gone wrong at the U.S. Forest Service, why we stopped salvaging lumber on public land after wildfires and hurricanes, why lumber is le...