Im March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at profiting relief for the one out of every four American workers who were unemployed. He proposed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation's forests, parks, and farms: planting trees, creating flood barriers, fighting fires, and building roads and trails. Corps workers lived in camps under quasi-military discipline and received a wage of $30 per month, $25 of which they were required to send home to their families. This film, by director Robert Stone, interweaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most popular New Deal experiments, positioning it as a pivotal moment in the emergence of modern environmentalism and national service.

A short that attempts to articulate why Jon Wilson mountain bikes.

As a young adult, Jon lost his leg to cancer. Mountain biking has played a critical role in helping him sink his teeth back into life. I am one of many who are lucky to get to call Jon a friend, as he is someone who does three important things for me in my life: he inspires me; he gives me perspective; and he puts me in my place.

Shot in Dorset, Vermont. Presented by Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop (mellowjohnnys.com) and Bern (bernunlimited.com/).

Special thanks to Ella Vos for making such great music.

Soundtrack: "White Noise" by Ella Vos (itunes.apple.com/us/album/white-noise-single/id1152636958)

This is the story of Dharampal Singh who, according to himself and four hastily arranged forms of ID, is 119 years old. While living that long would be a feat unto itself, it’s all the running that got our attention.

Mr. Dharam Singh likes to run.

A lot.

According to Robert Young of the Gerontology Research Group, only about 1,000 people have been verified as living past 110. That’s roughly .00001 percent of the current human population. Of these people, only about 10 percent are male. Of these males, 0 percent could run a marathon. We traveled to magical (and crowded) India in the spring to figure out the ancient secrets of Dharam’s longevity and watch him run in the Hindustan Marathon, which, if his age is accurate, would make him the oldest runner of any kind of sanctioned running event by at least two decades.

Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist, Author and Activist Chris Hedges, discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.

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On December 4, 2017, President Trump declared a drastic reduction of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history…and the President had made his decision without ever stepping foot there.

On January 13, 2018, we gathered a group of friends and ran 250 miles across both monuments in a single weekend to see for ourselves what would be left protected.

Now more than ever we believe in celebrating the things that unite us. Our run was about finding commonalities in the midst of a divisive political landscape and standing in coalescence— tribal members, athletes, dirtbags — for our public lands. We hope our footsteps carry a message: wild places are worth protecting, and sometimes the first step in doing that is to take another.

To learn more about the run, visit messengersrun.com

Producers:
Andy Cochrane
Johnie Gall
Greg Balkin

DP/Editor: Greg Balkin

Music: Cleod9 Music (cleod9music.com/)

Runners:
Andy Cochrane
Magda Boulet
Clare Gallagher
Len Necefer
Sheyenne Lewis
Jorge Moreno
Katie Boué
Gil Levy
Carolyn Morse
Alice Baker
Craig Prendergast
Lenny Strnad
Brianna Madia
Keith Madia
Wyatt Roscoe
Maggie George
Daniel McLaughlin

Dogs:
Bea
Bucket
Dagwood
Chaco
Gizmo

Special Thanks to:
Patagonia
Cleod9 Music
Borrowlenses
Nativesoutdoors
Karl Scherzberg
Bureau of Land Management
The Navajo, Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Ute Tribes