Documentary Credits

Executive Producer
Roger Boleman

Director and Editor
Mike Cihak

Writer and researcher
Christopher Butler

Narrator
Ron Schara

Videographers
Mike Cihak
Roger Boleman

Original Film Footage
Bob Hartkopf

Echoes Project Team
Bob Hartkopf
Rex Randall Johnson
Roger Boleman
Steve Delehanty
Diane Radermacher
Christopher Butler
Mike Cihak
Dave Soehren
Jon Panzer

Photo Archivist
Philip Drown

Archival Photographs
Brown County Historical Society
Chippewa County Historical Society
Minnesota Historical Society
Stevens County Historical Society
Swift County Historical Society

Production Assistants
Ron Rosen
Ron Kubik
Tim Ray
Theresa Baily
Emily Samuelson
Brian Eberhardt
Ia Xiong
James Jarvie
Marco Avila
Ian Jentz
Shalon Wilber

Project Intern
Jeremy Lindorff-Trnka

Public Relations
Judy Riley

Grants Development
Tom Mahoney
Rita Bolluyt

Special Thanks
Bob and Anne Hartkopf
Pioneer Public Television
Larry Lewis

Copyright 2007

 
 

Behind the Scenes of Echoes

Roger Boleman • executive producer
Roger Boleman is director of Media Services Department at University of Minnesota, Morris. For the past two decades, Boleman has produced educational and documentary programming specifically for public television. His producing and director projects include University of Wisconsin, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Minnesota Agency on Aging, Minnesota Extension Service and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Mike Cihak • director, photographer and editor
Mike Cihak is an award-winning media producer for the University of Minnesota, Morris. He directed and edited Echoes of Cry of the Marsh and is responsible for all marketing and publicity. He also is associate producer and director of the live town hall meeting.

Christopher Butler • writer, researcher and moderator
Chris Butler has a joint appointment teaching writing in department of English and sociology through GenEdWeb, UMM's online campus.

Prior to UMM, Butler worked as news reporter and director for KYUK, an NPR affiliate in Alaska, where he hosted a public affairs shows and read television news for the Alaska Rural Communication Service.

In addition to his broadcasting work, Butler has varied experience as a professional writer with three years of grant writing, and a year of instructional design. He has also co-authored a book.

Participants in the Documentary

Bob Hartkopf
Teacher, farmer, ecologist, from Swift County, Minn.

Rex Randal Johnson, Ph.D.
Conservation Planner, US Fish & Wildlife Service,
Fergus Falls, Minn.

Steve Delehanty
Area Wildlife Manager, US Fish & Wildlife Service,
Stevens County, Minn.

Janet Timmerman
Author, Local Historian, Murray County, Minn.

Joe Amato
Professor of History, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minn.

Tom Kalahar
Conservation Planner, Renville County, Minn.

Loren Harste
Retired Farmer, Swift County, Minn.

Diane Radermacher
Administrator, Upper Minnesota Watershed District,
Ortonville, Minn.

Doug Anderson
County Commissioner, Farmer, Swift County, Minn.

Dave Soehren
Area Wildlife Supervisor, Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, Appleton, Minn.

 
     
Echoes of Cry of the Marsh is a production of the
University of Minnesota Morris
with cooperation with Pioneer Public Television • 2007