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Reagan Ranch

Season 1 Episode 127
54:40
Life in Death Valley

Life in Death Valley

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27:41
Cotton

Cotton

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Vincent Price Art Museum

Vincent Price Art Museum

Season 13 Episode 1312
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The Calling

Season 4 Episode 5
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California's Gold with Huell Howser

Monarchs

Have you ever wondered what 100,000 Monarch Butterflies look like? Well here's your chance. Huell travels to Pismo State Beach to visit the largest overwintering site for Monarch butterflies in the U.S. More people visit this site than any another butterfly site in the world. Last year they had 50,000 visitors!

Every year hundreds of thousands of Monarchs fly as much as two thousand miles to reach safe overwintering sites along California's central coast. They can fly up to one hundred miles a day at an altitude of up to ten thousand feet. What's amazing is that none of the butterflies that make this amazing journey have ever been here before. The butterflies have nothing but instinct to guide them. Huell gets a special tour of this wonderful site from a Park Ranger, docents and a class from Cal Poly who studies the Monarchs.

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Vincent Price Art Museum
28:31
Huell tours the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
Land Sailing
24:29
Huell travels to the Mojave Desert's El Mirage Dry Lake to witness land sailing.
Cotton
24:13
Huell spends a day in Buttonwillow, which calls itself the “Cotton Capitol of California.”
Snow and Ice
27:41
Huell meets up with historian Tom Macaulay, who takes him to a frozen lake in the Sierra.
Life in Death Valley
28:17
Huell explores the beauty and unexpected biodiversity of Death Valley.
Reagan Ranch
54:40
Huell gets a tour of the Santa Barbara ranch home of President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy.
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