New documentary looks at alternative approaches to wildfires

What if we learned to co-exist with wildfires rather than constantly fighting them? Portland filmmaker Trip Jennings’s new documentary “Elemental” includes the voices of climate experts, Indigenous people and fire survivors, and asks us to reimagine our relationship with wildfire. We hear from Jennings about what he hopes audiences will take away from his film.

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Can we coexist with big wildfires? A new documentary, ‘Elemental,’ suggests we can