Join us for a screening of 4 Mile Run: Reviving an Urban Stream. The team from Four Mile Run Conservatory Foundation will be present to talk with folks about the importance of maintaining and beautifying the Run for residents and wildlife alike. Refreshments will be provided.
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Four Mile Run is a nine-mile long urban stream that drains its Northern Virginia valley with 200,000 residents--adjacent to Washington, DC. The history, current resources and problems, and future possibilities for revival of this urban stream can be generalized as the story of thousands of urban streams throughout North America. Jim Fowler, the wildlife wrangler of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, grew up along Four Mile Run in the 1930s and developed his love for the natural world there. Fowler returns to his home for the first time since 1946 to host this film and to provide a context for viewers to appreciate and seek to revive these abused, piped, channelized, and polluted urban waterways. The stream's surprising history and the bold plans for its future provide hope that our urban streams can be revived.
