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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 3
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Moose, Grizzly Bears, and Bison are typical American animals, but their roots are in Asia. The wildlife of North America was largely shaped by the land bridge of Beringia. Join Patrick for an unforgettable look at the remnants of Beringian Alaska - an eternal frontier.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 12
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Few places can inspire a naturalist as much as Roan Mountain, located on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. This is one of North America's greatest and most beautiful natural areas. The crown jewels of this highland are its grassy balds, vast treeless grasslands that are reminiscent of prairies. They shelter many rare and endangered species and connect man to the natural world as poignantly as possible. Yet the balds are one of nature's greatest...
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 9
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The Southern Blue Ridge escarpment in South Carolina has served as a refuge for life during changing climates in the past and can serve as a resilient landscape in the face of changes happening today. Join Patrick for a journey through the gorges that serve as a crucible of life during change.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 4
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Like it or not, change has come to the Arctic. Join Patrick as he explores the dramatic changes happening today in this frozen tundra and how they might impact our everyday lives.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 8
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The Southern Blue Ridge escarpment in South Carolina is often overlooked for the loftier peaks of the Appalachian spine but they are the diverse and resilient center of the eastern Deciduous forest. Join Patrick for an unforgettable journey through the "Blue Wall" of South Carolina.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 2
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Condors, Elephant Seals, Sea Otters and Elk - mankind always seems to step in at the very last minute to save a species, to make a change. Join Patrick as he explores some of the most compelling stories of survival on the California coast.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 13
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Birds migrate huge distances from wintering grounds. Frogs, each with their own unique voice, call from wetlands. Deer and elk battle with anglers as weapons. What is the point of all of this? Every spring, thousands of species participate in rites - rituals with a single goal in mind: breeding. Join Patrick, along with guests Matt Johnson and Drew Lanham, as they explore the amazing, and often bizarre rituals of many creatures across the continent....
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 6
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When you think of southern Arizona you probably don't think about prairies, moist Sycamore and maple forests, or lush oak and pine forests, but they are a huge part of southern Arizona. Join Patrick as he explores the unexpected and unusual diversity found in Arizona's sky islands.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 7
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Much of the diversity of southern Arizona is more Mexican than American. Political borders are changing biological movements and frontiers. Join Patrick as he explores the Mexican connection of American wildlife and challenges they face due to the border fence between the two countries.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 1
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California is by far America's most diverse state. It's a hotbed for diversity and relicts from the past. How do you generate such diversity, how has it been maintained and what can we learn from California's geologic history. Join Patrick for a look at the coasts, shrublands, deserts and mountains of San Diego County.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 11
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Imagine 30 million Bison sharing the plains with humans. In only a decade, these massive herds were all but extinguished. We look back at the actions of the people who lived in America in the 19th century in disbelief; how could they do that? Today Prairie Dogs, Black-footed Ferrets and Kit Foxes are the endangered species living on the plains of the American West. Join Patrick as he journeys into the prairie with researchers who are trying to change...
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 10
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The state of Nebraska is the heart of the Great Plains, the heartland of the North American continent that is tied to every corner and every life. Join Patrick on an unforgettable voyage of discovery through this immense sea of grass as he explores the ever-changing tapestry of the Great Plains.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 5
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It was rice that built wealth in South Carolina - vast project of converting swamps to fields that was abandoned in the early 20th century. These fields have reverted to one of the most spectacular natural treasures in the South - havens for wildlife and wildflowers. Sometimes man's alterations can have positive consequences.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 7
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The lofty peaks of the Blue Ridge rise like islands in the sky. They provide unique habitats that act as ecological islands generating diversity and preserving fragments of the past. No peak has a more prominent position or poignant story than this one. Join Patrick as he takes a unique look at a very familiar place, Grandfather Mountain.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 3
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This is a very special bit of land, it is a destination for millions…of visiting animals! Dolphins, sea turtles, Seabirds, shorebirds, even Piping Plovers, Curlew and Red Knots use this place. Most stay for part of the year and then move on to other lands but without this place of refuge they may not survive. This is a place where humans are only visitors too. Join Patrick as he explores Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge a safe Harbor for visitors...
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 13
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Few creatures capture our attention and admiration more than hummingbirds. These miniature jeweled treasures move at mind-boggling speeds but also have the power to shape and change our world. Join Patrick as he explores the lives and biology of these creatures using high-tech technologies to uncover the secret lives of these little birds that live life in fast-forward. The episode took three years to film in parts of South Carolina, Arizona and Ecuador,...
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 11
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One of the most unique and fascinating places on the planet is also one of the most endangered. Legless lizards that swim through the sand, giant Indigo Snakes, burrowing tortoises and brilliant jays all depend on this fragments of scrub that remain. Join Patrick as he explores whether a collaboration of science and will can save the scrub.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 5
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When you think about prairie you probably at least indirectly think about grazing. If you think about cattle or cowboys, you're thinking about grazing. Grazing has been an integral part of what has happened in the Great Plains for eons. The ecology of this place originally developed around a native grazer. The web of life here revolves around the biology of Bison. Join Patrick as he seeks to find out if there is a place for a true American on the...
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 4
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The Ivorybill Woodpecker is a legend in the Southern swamps, but for years, it was thought to be only that, a legend. Recently a small glimmer of hope has emerged to suggest that the largest woodpecker in North America might still haunt the floodplain forests of the South. Join Patrick as he explores the wild bottomland forests in a quest to find evidence of the "Lord God Bird," the Ivorybill.
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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan volume 6
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Is it possible to enjoy a steak and at the same time heal the weary Great Plains? You might be shocked to find out that ranchers today must break the law to conserve the prairie on their own property. Join Patrick as he visits a ranch in western Kansas where a landowner is fighting to keep his prairie dogs, without which black-footed ferrets, burrowing owls, ferruginous hawks, mountain plovers and swift foxes might soon disappear. There is a silent...
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