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The last wild place

Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
From: Edward May
Length: 00:19:34

Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and life with him. Read the full description.

Default-piece-image-2 Steve Kroschel grew up in rural Minnesota and talks about how he became a wildlife cinemaphotographer. As a boy, he rescued two river otters and raised them which eventually landed him a job as a wolf handler on the set of "Never Cry Wolf" a major film made in the late 70's. Steve decided then he wanted to film wildlife and bought his first movie camera which lead to his footage being shown on over 50 episodes of the award winning PBS show "Wild America" with Marty Stoffer. Steve's credits include a guest appearance on the Johnny Carson Show and his film footage has been featured in numerous movies, commercials and PBS specials. Steve shares his experiences of being in what he calls "all the wild places in North America" and how they are vanishing and why he decided to move to Alaska, "the truely last wild place left in North America. Steve enlightens us about wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. He talks about his son, a budding videographer, and tells us about his wildlife park and home located in Haines Alaska. Track four of four on Insight Passage Productions, Alaskan Life Portraits, stories from the Last Frontier.

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Steve Kroschel grew up in rural Minnesota and talks about how he became a wildlife cinemaphotographer. As a boy, he rescued two river otters and raised them which eventually landed him a job as a wolf handler on the set of "Never Cry Wolf" a major film made in the late 70's. Steve decided then he wanted to film wildlife and bought his first movie camera which lead to his footage being shown on over 50 episodes of the award winning PBS show "Wild America" with Marty Stoffer. Steve's credits include a guest appearance on the Johnny Carson Show and his film footage has been featured in numerous movies, commercials and PBS specials. Steve shares his experiences of being in what he calls "all the wild places in North America" and how they are vanishing and why he decided to move to Alaska, "the truely last wild place left in North America. Steve enlightens us about wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. He talks about his son, a budding videographer, and tells us about his wildlife park and home located in Haines Alaska. Track four of four on Insight Passage Productions, Alaskan Life Portraits, stories from the Last Frontier.

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Review of The last wild place

A thoughtful and touching interview with a wildlife afficionado: it catalogs his early experiences that inspired his later career choice as wildlife cinematographer, his fascination with wilderness species (including Big Foot!), and his thoughts about why we must protect the environment in the future. It starts a little slowly, but draws you in as it progresses, due to the subject's understated enthusiasm for the wild and it's inhabitants. The interview might have benefited from more air; a pause where he moves on to a new subject, whether music or wildlife sounds, to allow digestion of what is said. Nevertheless, this piece would make a good addition to an environment hour, but would need an outro as it ends rather abruptly.

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