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California's Coastal Redwoods: Preserving The World's Tallest Trees And Their Homelands
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Ketchikan And Alaska's Panhandle Forests And Sea
Season 12
Episode 1201
Alaska's Panhandle preserves vast tracts of the planet's dwindling temperate rain forests. Ketchikan, the largest town in the panhandle, lies at the edge of these forests. It perseveres in the shadows of former robust salmon fisheries, but now attracts tourists, undeterred by incessant rains, lured by marine life, exotic forests, and the spectacular
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Our largest national park has become an important natural laboratory.
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The once-great Colorado River faces a dried-out future as more rely on its resources.
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Phantom Ranch, accessible only by trail, is the Grand Canyon's sole permanent settlement.
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Boating through the Grand Canyon provides a setting for reflection on the Colorado River.
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One of the world's greatest cities deals with falling water tables and sinking earth.
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Explore the never-ending race to survive climate changes in the Galapagos Islands.
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Travel along the 500-mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway, part of our national park system.
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Explore how cities and countryside adapt to drought in the American Southwest.
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Explore the old town of Baracoa and Cuba's vast sugar cane fields.