8 episodes
Tales from the Cabin Tales from the Cabin
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This documentary series covers the giants of America's conservation movement from Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson and beyond. Traveling the USA in my 1985 VW Vanagon camper, I visit the places that shaped the views of our great naturalists and interview the historians and biographers that know my subjects best. Utilizing the archives housed at the US Fish and Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center, I revisit the days when the idea of creating wilderness areas was new and helps us appreciate what these great visionaries contributed to the American landscape. Moreover, I hope to establish why the contributions these men and women made are still relevant and important today.
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Steele's Legacies
In 2024, he is practically unknown — a man who considered himself an abject failure toiling in the shadows of America's greatest triumph of its day.
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No Water
In 1983, I set out with a few friends to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. It’s hard to believe now, but it was a time when fewer than 15 people completed the trail each year. In the ’70s and ’80s, when the trail through southern California wasn’t traversing mountains on well-established tread, it dropped into desert terrain, where dirt roads, known as “Jeep Roads” became the norm.
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Ernest Oberholtzer’s True North – Chapter 3
Ernest Oberholtzer, one of America's great conservationists, revisited the scene of his his greatest adventure more than 50 years after the fact.
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Tales from the Cabin, Chapter 2 — The Porcupine
A four-day hike on the Appalachian Trail took a turn into the absurd, thanks to a porcupine with a yen for eating engine parts.
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The Voyage of the Gazelle
In the late 1890s, four boys from Michigan built a 30 foot boat and sailed it 7,000 miles from their home port of St. Joseph, Michigan down the Mississippi River, around Florida, up the East Coast, through the Erie Canal, the across the Great Lakes to arrive safely home again. It was a remarkable feat for any era and worth remembering.
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Author Talk – USFWS Historian Mark Madison and author Jeffrey H Ryan
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