Documentary Film Festival • Redmond, OR • October, 8th • 7pm
Working Hands
Wild Lands
An evening of film and conversation about the value of working lands and collaboration for conservation
Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm PST
High Desert Music Hall, Redmond, OR
Join us as we show three short films about working lands conservation.
Admission $15
MEET THE PANELISTS
CATE HAVSTAD-CASAD
Cate Havstad-Casad is a designer, entrepreneur and first-generation regenerative rancher. She founded her first company, Havstad Hat Company, in 2014, and has evolved as a designer and a land steward in tandem.
Cate and her husband, Chris Casad, also manage Casad Family Farms, a diversified organic farm, which they have scaled from a 3-acre market farm into a 365-acre, regeneratively managed operation, verified with Ecological Outcomes monitoring.
In 2021, Cate founded Range Revolution as an endeavor to connect her purpose in design and agriculture, finding artful ways to inspire people to find their place in the natural world.
ELLIE GAGE
Born in Idaho and a lifelong resident of Oregon, Ellie lives in Powell Butte with her husband Mark and two young sons.. Ellie earned a bachelor’s in Biology from OSU-Cascades in 2014, and in May 2023 completed her master’s at the University of Idaho in Integrated Natural Resources, focusing on rangeland and wildlife management. She loves spending time outdoors with her family and animals, fly fishing, and learning about hunting and cooking wild game with her sons.
She has a genuine love for the land, wildlife, livestock, and land stewards. That love is the driving force that motivates her to support working people and working lands to continue to provide food, fiber, critical habitat and ecosystem services in the future.
MODERATOR
LOUIS WERTZ
Louis Wertz leads communications for the Western Landowners Alliance. He grew up taking long road trips across the American West in the family minivan. Since, he has been obsessed with listening to and telling the stories of the land stewards who protect and regenerate the amazing places he fell in love with.
Louis holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree from Northwestern University and a Master’s of Science in World Heritage Studies from the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany, where he focused on holistic approaches for managing heritage sites. He completed his master’s thesis in Yosemite National Park in 2008. In 2010 he spent a year working on an organic vegetable farm and apple orchard in Mendocino County, California. He received his Permaculture and Advanced Permaculture Design Certificate from the Denver Permaculture Guild. He lives with his wife and their two young children just outside of Denver, Colorado.
Presented by
Produced by
Against the Herd
Jaxon Derow
Grizzlies and Grazing
Steve Primm, Alexa Montefiore, Brent Brock
Fish and the Flame
Page Buono
Nate Dappen
David Hutchinson
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