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Documentary Spotlights Historic Defense of Shawnee National Forest
Carbondale, IL - Cade Bursell, a professor of cinema and photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale announced her new documentary, Shawnee Showdown Keep the Forest Standing, is soon to be released.
The film documents the struggle by environmentalists that won a prohibition on logging, and oil and gas drilling in 1996 that stood until 2013.
The film addresses both the tenacious protests and legal efforts…