Following in the footsteps of wolves, cougars and the scientists working to understand their place in the rapidly changing world of nature, award-winning filmmakers Karen and Ralf Meyer of Green Fire Productions have captured the predators’ ongoing drama in their new documentary, “Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators.”

Lords of Nature shows 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at North Bend Theater.  Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The one-hour screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Conservation Northwest Outreach Associate Jay Kehne. Admission is free.

Narrated by Peter Coyote, Lords of Nature journeys to the heart of predator country: the Yellowstone plateau; the canyons of Zion; the farm country of northern Minnesota and the rugged open range of central Idaho—all places now resettled by wolves. Here, scientists discover these top carnivores as revitalizing forces of nature, keystone species whose presence in sufficient numbers can dramatically reverse the slow decay of America’s wild West.

“We’re lucky in Snoqualmie Valley to have abundant wildlife, including black bears, cougars and, coyotes, the bosses of the ecosystem,” said Debra Welsh, a Snoqualmie Valley resident and film booster.  “According to biologists, wolves just returning to our state will soon join these top predators and be an important part of our local ecology.

“Lords of Nature is an excellent documentary that helps dispel myths and highlights an area where people have always lived with wolves, and take them for granted as part of the ecosystem. I learned so much from it that I wanted to share it with my neighbors,” she said.

Learn more at www.lordsofnature.org