Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Wilderness of Ice, Salmon, and Human History -
in the americas with david yetman

Mon, Sep 2 11:00 P.M. NH Create (11.4)

It's our largest national park larger than New England and one-third of it is ice. One glacier is 137 miles long. The park contains active volcanoes. Its rivers of icemelt are home to salmon runs that have supported native peoples for thousands of years. Yet the glaciers are melting, and forests are drying. The park has become an enormously important natural laboratory.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 904

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Mon, Sep 2	11:00 P.M.	Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Wilderness of Ice, Salmon, and Human History NH Create (11.4)

About In The Americas with David Yetman:

IN THE AMERICAS WITH DAVID YETMAN takes a fresh look at the lands that make up much of the Western Hemisphere.

The 10-part series showcases the landscapes, peoples and history of the Americas - from the stories of a small village of Japanese immigrants in the Amazon to descendants of poor Italians in Chile, from Mayan temples in Guatemala to ancient fortresses in Mexico, and from the frigid, glacier-carved barrens of northern Canada to the timeless villages of the altiplano in Peru.

By raft, boat, ferry, horse and motorcycle, host David Yetman journeys to parts of Cuba mostly unknown to the outside world, the wild mountains of western Argentina, festivals in Columbia and the often ignored Great Lakes of the United States.

Along the way, he meets people from all walks of life - natives and immigrants, islanders and mainlanders, pastoralists and city-dwellers - and hears their stories.

David Yetman, longtime host of The Desert Speaks (also distributed through APT Exchange) works as a research social scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona.

Yetman is also a nationally known author of numerous books and articles and an accomplished photographer.

Watch In The Americas with David Yetman - Clips, Episodes & Previews

Columbia: Cartagena and a Hidden Palenque

Peoples of Oaxaca and the Arrival of the Holy Week

The Brazilian State of Ceara

Argentina's Route 40: From the Steppes to the Lakes

Bogota to the Amazon: A Trip Across Colombia

Favelas and Samba in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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