Imagine a landscape dressed in trees, dressed in grass, dressed in water. Now what if you could pull that all away? What would remain? It's a deceptively vast and empty-seeming landscape. And much of it is unexplored. In this show, we visit the Death Valley Wilderness, located within the vast expanse of California's Mojave Desert.
Mar 2, 2015
27 min
It's easy to imagine the American wilderness as a series of sweeping vistas. But not all of our wilderness takes that form. There are some wild lands we can only appreciate up close, from within their living ecosystem. In this show, we visit the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area, located in southeast Georgia.
Jan 15, 2015
18 min
A hand-drawn map on a dining room table in a Colorado home was the main reason the spectacular Maroon-Bells Snowmass Wilderness was one of the first lands protected by the 1964 Wilderness Act. Find out how this wilderness area, and the entire wilderness act came to pass, how this land is treasured now, and in danger of being "loved to death."
Oct 1, 2014
26 min