Member Program: The Last Prairie
The Last Prairie is a film about the Nebraska Sandhills, a vast wetland, fed by the Ogallala Aquifer, which bubbles up throughout the grass-covered dunes. Its 20,000 square miles comprise the largest area of stabilized sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere and it has been recently described as the most intact temperate grassland on earth.
The film offers an intimate portrait of the Sandhills, presented through voices of three different communities: ecologists who study the region’s biodiversity; people who live and work there; and Native Lakota people whose ancestors were displaced to make way for American westward expansion. The Sandhills, however, is the main character, and the primary voice.
John Okeefe, Ph.D., will join us to introduce the documentary he produced and directed. Dr. Okeefe served more than 30 years on the faculty of Creighton University and as Chairman of the Theology department.
Join us at DJs Dugout, 114th and Dodge. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and program at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Please register at Audubon-Omaha.org.
