Musical guests, Good Dog, perform for youth.

Adults and children enjoy the youth activities alike.

Refuge Staff welcome children at the Conservation Film Festival.

Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Education Chair, Carla Stanley prepares for teaching kids about our refuges.

Nearly 400 people in Fairbanks, Alaska celebrated National Wildlife Refuge Week by attending the Far North Conservation Film Festival on November 10-11, 2006, hosted by Arctic, Kanuti and Yukon Flats Refuges in conjunction with six other organizations. 

For two days at the Pioneer Park Centennial Center for Arts, we presented an engaging and diverse group of films about the conservation and sustainability of wildlife, wild places and cultures around the world.  Friday night, Anne Mosness, a guest speaker from Bellingham, WA, introduced our feature film, Farming the Seas, which was followed by an enticing line-up of films.  Saturday was packed with events!  In the afternoon, conservation groups from around Alaska displayed booths and hosted children’s activities. Good Dog, a musical duo from Seward, Alaska played an energizing set of children’s songs, which was followed by educational children’s films.  We concluded the festival in the evening with a compelling line-up of films for an adult audience.

With music, children’s activities, and films for all ages, the third annual Far North Conservation Film Festival was a big hit with kids and adults alike!