THE BUFFALO TRIANGLE (Treatment, act 2)

ACT TWO
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Detailed efforts and interviews of plans and people who've tried to do something ----

10. The Land blowing away amerika

Neil Young's 'It's a Dream' - over pix of abandoned farmhouses and old roads blowing away on the prairie, ghost towns, and small towns with empty storefronts on main street, etc. An elegy to what once was, as Young sings "It's a memory without anywhere to stay,
and it's just fading away."

11. Buffalo Commons

The SONG overlaps into interior talks by Frank and Deborah Popper, and their 'Buffalo Commons' idea of returning 139,000 square miles of 10 western states to the buffalo. Back in the 1980s-90s there was a lot of talk about it, and generally contempt from the western residents to the idea.

12. ALF and ELF

Vail condos burning where the Earth Liberation Front set them afire, and animal pens by Animal Liberation Front, and perhaps interivews with some of them, including, maybe, Rod Coronado, etc.

13. Intertribal Bison Cooperative

Raising buffalo herds for profit by Indians. Interviews with ITBC guys in Rapid City office, and Indian ranchers on the reservations.

14. AIM

Interviews with American Indian Movement about plans to return to traditional ways.

15. Hopis

The conflict between Tribal Council and Traditionals around Peabody Coal and the Navajo power plant in Arizona, loss of water, land, all torn apart by money and 80% unemployment. The Council recently told Sierra Club and white environmentalists to butt out of their affairs and land.

16. Earth First! and Monkeywrench gangs

Interviews with EF! people and Abbey's book 'The monkeywrench Gang' to blow up Glen Canyon Dam in Utah on the Colorado River =within the Triangle, again, as with all these.

17. Los Alamos, nuclear power plants, and nuclear weapons

Overview of Los Alamos and The Bomb, nuke plants in Phoenix and Denver, Air Force bases in Albuquerque, Rapid City, Colorado Springs, with B-1s, Nuke Crusie missiles, and pix of old Missile Silos everywhere.

18. Ted Turner buffalo herds

Private herds-for-profit-and-meat throughout the West, pix, interviews (we can get a lot of this on the Internet, and to hell with 'rights')

19. Custer State Park

More on the thousands of Buffalo on the Park, and the Gov't involved in buffalo profits.

20. White Buffalo herd

People near Flagstaff have several white buffaloes, they say - for viewing behind walls, for a fee - and are developing an actual 'white buffalo herd'. This illustrates more of the potential sacredness of the Flagstaff Peaks introduced in Act One.

21. Federal & State Grassland Parks

Efforts by Gov't and private companies to make public lands available for some herds, and other wildlife ecosystems like the wolves - with clips maybe of 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Cheyenne Autumn'.

22. Colorado River & Rio Grande plateaux

Both these great rivers have their sources high in the Colorado mountains, inside our Triangle; and analysis and maps of their Plateaus and the water systems derived from them that big cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles are draining, with the whole pipeline/canal systems and dams, power plants, etc. Interviews in Telluride with Art Goodtimes, the only Green Party man who's an elected County Commissioner; maybe the Headwaters people at Western State College in Gunnison, etc.

23. Denver and Rocky Flats

Denver's inside our Triangle - interview with Chicano leaders like Ernesto Vigil, etc.

24. Cattle mutilations, crop circles

Many of the animal mutilations - not just cattle - have been reported in our Magic Triangle, and some crop circle designs have been recorded at ancient PICTOGLYPH sites.

This may be plenty for Act Two, leading back into the Spiritual Theme of the GODS for the conclusions of Act Three.