After years as a newspaper and magazine photographer Bridget Besaw now produces media as a tool for environmental protection. Bridget works closely with environmental organizations to help them envision, and then produce in-depth photography projects. Bridget’s “Green Media Team” (www.greenmediateam.com) has produced a variety of outreach tools; from magazine photo essays to traveling exhibits to books to online multimedia films. Her projects have tackled issues such as development threats to northern Maine’s wilderness, loss of working farmland in New England, restoration of crucial salmon habitat in the North Pacific, threats to arid grasslands in South America, climate change research and prevention in Indonesian forests and sustainable fisheries initiatives through-out the world. Among the organizations supporting Bridget’s work: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, NOAA, Blue Earth Alliance, Maine Farmland Trust, Maine Coast Heritage Trust and The Nature Conservancy. Bridget has published 2 books in partnership with environmental organizations: Wildness within, Wildness without and From the Land.