Next Airings

• 10/26 7:00AMLand of Quaking Earth
  "In the southeastern coastal plain of the United States in Georgia, there exists one of the world’s truly unique jingle swamps named by the Indians OKEEFENOKEE (land of floating islands). Here in this intricate maze of river-ways with its ferns, grasses and cane growths, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler explore a fairytale jungle that is one of the last strongholds of the alligator. The jungle suddenly becomes marshland, also called wet prairies, with water 1 to 4 feet deep. Here in profusion fly hundreds of American egrets, the swamp fisherman. Jim uses the Indian soap plant to wash his hands, and Marlin tries to balance on one of the floating hammocks or floating islands of “quaking earth.” We witness the lassoing, from a boat, of a bear that has moved in too close to civilization. After being caged, he is moved into the interior on an island that can support him, and we follow his encounters with an alligator, a skunk, and an alligator snapping turtle."
• 10/26 7:30AMTrailing the Midnight Sun
  "Winter is night, summer is day, and you need your wits to survive in the forbidding land north of the Arctic Circle. In this story you go by walrus skin boat, dogsled, airplane and helicopter. You hunt seal with Eskimos, find polar bear and beluga whale. You round up a large herd of reindeer and tag them for conservation officials. And you watch Jim Fowler discover a far-north version of a popular rodeo event: bulldogging moose from a helicopter."
• 10/26 8:00AMCattail Country
  "Marlin visits the Grand Teton Mountains in the U.S. and the wilderness north of Canada to show us the territorial fight, the rescue of a baby moose and to see the sandhill cranes."