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The Desert Speaks
The Natural History of the Baja
Season 4
Episode 1
Explore the natural history of the Peninsula of Baja California through its geography, vegetation variances and endemic species. The program looks at the isolation and ecology of the region, and examines the many species of plants and animals adapted to the Baja.
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Host David Yetman takes a trip to the pueblos of the Sierra Madre.
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Host David Yetman and his brother take a geological road trip to Utah’s Colorado Plateau.
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Host David Yetman travels to track jaguar movements through Eastern Sonora Mexico.
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Travel through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Quitobaquito Springs.
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Travel around the Puna, the high-elevation plains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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We trace the Atacama Desert Trade route from the Pacific coast to the Chilean Andes.