Mr. PHILIP LABU (Orange Crop Farmer, San Joaquin Valley, California): It's kind of a devastation I feel after working so hard, and then you just kind of, you know, lose it all in a couple of nights.

NPR: Cold Weather Damages California Crops

But by the early 1990s the Blackfoot was in such bad shape--its valley scarred by clear cuts, its tributaries poisoned and turned orange with acid mine runoff--that the movie had to be filmed on rivers to the south.

FORBES: Riverkeeper

As the sun hung heavy in the sky, we descended into a valley to find four napping lionesses guarded by two fierce males, their wild manes glowing orange, then amber as the sun set.

BBC: The Serengeti in the off-season