Episode 1906
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- Christmas Valley Fossils
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- Christmas Valley is home to some of the best preserved fossils in the world. At Fossil Lake, paleontologist Dr. Jim Martin from the South Dakota School of Mines works with a team of students and volunteers to excavate the remains of a native horse, a species that died out thousands of years ago. The remarkable geology and animal remains provide a record of life in the valley over the past 600,000 years.
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- Spider Woman
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- Professor Greta Binford is an arachnologist who collects, breeds and milks the venom from the world's most dangerous spiders. Nicknamed "Spider Woman," Binford studies spider venom to help establish evolutionary links between spider species. Follow her and a group of students as they search the woods for calie leptoneta, a Northwest species that has been missing for decades.
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- Portland's Big Pipe Project
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- We check in on an incredible subterranean sewer construction project designed to protect the Willamette River. The East Side Big Pipe project is part of a decades long clean up project to divert stormwater and prevent sewage from overflowing into the river. See some of the planning and expertise that goes into this huge project and the cutting edge equipment used to excavate the tunnel and install the underground pipe.
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- Bald Eagle Recovery Changes Nature’s Balance
- by Vince Patton | 02/04/2010
- Bald eagles are back. They’ve been removed from the endangered species list since June, 2007. From just 417 nesting pairs in 1963 to 9,789 breeding pairs now, eagles have recovered well in the lower 48 states. More eagles need more food. Naturally, they eat other animals. In Oregon, coastal eagles are having a profound impact on [...]
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