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Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Dec 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The Bald Eagle is back. Which is great news considering all it's been through.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the sixth progr...
- Added: Nov 14, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Shift of Land is a 13 part series, which looks at the deep connections between land, culture and agriculture in New Mexico. In the fourth prog...
- Added: Nov 14, 2007
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
In the second show we explore the connection that Native Nations in the state have to the land and listen to some of the earlier agrarian techniques.
- Added: Nov 13, 2007
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Filmmakers Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis talk about the making of their film "Libby, Montana"
- Added: Sep 14, 2007
- Length: 10:22
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
A woman moves out West for the air. Then the dust rises, and the air makes her daughter deathly ill. Tim Egan tells stories from the Great American...
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 53:57
Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It's no news to anyone that hurricanes can be devastating. Luckily, hurricane forecasting has improved a lot over the years. We owe much of that im...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
It started in 1872 on the barren plains of Nebraska...It's Arbor Day!
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Ever wondered if your city is a "Tree City?"
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
How four towns in an idyllic valley were levelled and burned in the late '30s to build the biggest drinking water reservoir of the era, as experien...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, WNIJ, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Mar 08, 2007
- Length: 01:02:02
- Purchases: 3
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Interviews of three community members concerning water issues in the San Luis Valley.
Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC
- Added: Jan 15, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Henry Ford always thought agriculture and industry were natural partners.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Have you ever wondered where migratory birds get all the energy for such long, grueling flights? Well, there are pit stops along the way, like the ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Eight in a 13 part series focussing on culture in the San Luis Valley, this is part 2 in looking at La Sierra or Taylor Ranch which was illegaly cl...
Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KWCW
- Added: Nov 05, 2006
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 2
The Menominee Indians of northern Wisconsin own 220,000 acres of forest, and their wood products command very high prices.
- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 2