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We recently had the honor of working with our friend Michael Liang at North Cascades National Park to produce a story about the Pathways for Youth initiative.

Pathways for Youth is an effort to create the next generation of public lands stewards and National Park Service employees. By deliberately connecting existing programs and partnerships, North Cascades is creating a continuum of meaningful park-based experiences. Our story follows several young people who discuss their own unique pathways through educational programs, internships and seasonal employment.

The visuals for this piece are primarily video interviews and video portraits. We set up a mobile studio and filmed all 10 interviews over one long day during a youth leadership conference at North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.

Visualizing the youth’s pathways presented the perfect opportunity for us to experiment with motion graphics and we employed a simple trail motif to tie experiences together. For music, we once again worked with Nick Drummond’s ever-evolving collection of riffs and melodies.

We enjoyed this opportunity to collaborate with a few old friends from the North Cascades and hope the piece will help the Park continue to create opportunities for the next generation of stewards.

UPDATE: North Cascades National Park received almost $400,000 to expand the Pathways for Youth program in 2011. Congratulations to all involved!