Waterside Chat with Kris Millgate
You will entertained and learn some cool stuff
On Wednesday I had the pleasure of welcoming my friend and colleague Kris Millgate to the Marine Fish Conservation Network’s online Waterside Chat.
Kris is an Emmy-winning multimedia journalist who started Tight Line Media in 2006. She has an impressive record of accomplishments:
She hosted Time OUT, the outdoor TV news segment for seven years
Created East Idaho Outdoors Magazine in 2014.
Her first book, My Place Among Men, was published in 2019.
The sequel, My Place Among Fish, was published in 2021 alongside the debut of her salmon film Ocean to Idaho.
Her third book, My Place Among Beasts published with her wildlife film, On Grizzly Ground, in 2023.
Here are some of the things Kris shared:
Becoming an outdoor journalist despite shyness and a childhood fear of people with beards
Spending a summer in a camper following salmon from the ocean to their spawning streams in Idaho
The physical toll migration takes on salmon -- and on a filmmaker following them
The difference between a situation that makes you uncomfortable and one that's actually unsafe
What everyone does when they come face to face with a grizzly
Why capturing all points of view on a topic as controversial as dam removal in the West is critical.
Why storytellers need to meet people where they are, understanding that they may take in information in different ways via different media
Her newest project, Sage Wisdom West, following sage grouse in the high desert, "a fantastic landscape that sustains perhaps more wildlife than the mountains"
You can learn more about these and her other projects and order your own copies of the videos and books at: https://www.tightlinemedia.com/
Enjoy the entire chat here for more fascinating stories from Kris.
wow so excellent Tom. The hour of this immersive interview flew by leisurely like a bald eagle might in my own isolated locale its power magnetic. Kris has such a sharp focus and enthusiasm and her videos and writing are on their own no doubt as vital as the message delivered: preserve, respect, protect the wild life we love and its environment. "Getting people to stand in the creek" may be all i can do in spreading this out to my meagre followers. I will now have to find her salmon movie. Their journey is as heroic as Lewis and Clark....with grizzlies too! Have followed the take down of dams along the Klamath river out west in recent years and both your work is so important to conservation in general.Just great thanks!