The New River flows north from Watauga County in western North Carolina toward Virginia. The river’s health is threatened by property owners who clear-cut the river’s first line of defense: the trees and shrubs along the banks.
Producer, Aubrey Patti; associate producer, Abbey Vinson; scriptwriter, Rossie Izlar; videographer/editor, Robert Gunter; graphic artist, Heather Dollar;
executive producer, Dr. Tom Linden.