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The Desert Speaks
People and Their Prickly Plants
Season 14
Episode 1403
Head to Scottsdale, Arizona to see the largest private collection of desert-area plants in the world. Visit the Boyce Thompson Arboretum and an amazing collection at Bach’s Nursery in Tucson where they have a better success rate with their individually raised saguaro cacti than Mother Nature herself. Finally, travel to Los Angeles for North America’s largest cactus and succulent show.
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The final episode in the Galapagos Islands features some of the “newer” islands.
Host David Yetman hops into a motorcycle sidecar to explore Wyoming’s Red Desert
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Travel through the desert with the inventor of goat packing, John Mionczynski.
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Learn how Tohono O’Odham tribal members are passing down traditions.
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Explore Andean Condors and learn their ritualistic significance to native people.
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Examine pre-Incan ruins before venturing to the skies for a view of the Nazca lines.