The rainforest of the Pacific Northwest is one of only three remaining temperate rainforests in the world. Viewers gain an appreciation for the delicate nature of the very ecosystem necessary to sustain human existence. Through colorful and vivid cinematography, the beauty, complexity, and wonder of these rapidly disappearing biospheres are shown and their consequential global effect. The viewer is treated to a close-up and commiserative view of what has truly become one of America’s most irreplaceable treasures—its singular rainforest. A Cambridge Educational Production. One 35-minute video.

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