In our AMS/ENVS/HUM 159 Nature & World Cultures class, students complete a group project together with a Native Californian tribe, resulting in a micro-documentary, a published article, or a Wikipedia entry. You can view some of the micro-docs on my DrPfeiffer YouTube channel. We also just co-authored an article about this in the international journal Langscape, Volume 3, Issue 1.

On August 6th, 2014 the California Fish & Game Commission vote unanimously to designate the Clear Lake Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi), an endemic minnow of cultural and ecological significance, as a threatened species in California.

Conservationists from the Center for Biological Diversity filed the initial petition. Volunteers with the Chi Council for the Clear Lake Hitch provided recent survey data. Tribal members from bands surrounding Clear Lake drove to San Diego and testified.

And my newest film was shown: