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Forever Wild?
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For nearly 10,000 years, the Earth's wild places have been replaced by agricultural landscapes - an occurrence that has left a single question in its wake: where are the wild things? In Forever Wil...
For nearly 10,000 years, the Earth's wild places have been replaced by agricultural landscapes - an occurrence that has left a single question in its wake: where are the wild things? In Forever Wild, a part of the PBS Scientific Frontiers series, host Alan Alda goes behind the scenes with forest and wild life advocates as they examine the questions brought about by a domesticated world: what does it take to make wild places "work"? Can a South African game park's rhinos behave as they would in the wild? Can bison restore an Oklahoma cattle ranch to prairie status? Alda also visits Arizona's Biosphere 2, a climate research institute, studying reactions of miniature wild ecosystems to the global atmospheres - a century into the future.
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- Creator
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Scientific American frontiers (Television program)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2011], c2002
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
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- OCLC
- ocn783171206
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on August 21, 2011.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Introduction: Forever Wild? (0:54) -- Sponsors: Forever Wild? (0:11) -- Domesticated Land Crowds Out Wilderness (1:38) -- Restoring Bison and the Plains (2:18) -- How the Prairie Was Lost (1:53) -- Secrets of Prairie Restoration (2:59) -- Disturbance-Reliant Ecosystem (3:00) -- Bison Roundup (3:21) -- Managing the Herd (2:07) -- Biosphere 2 (1:31) -- Biosphere As a Research Lab (3:20) -- Advantage of Biosphere Research (2:40) -- Rainforest Limit (3:36) -- Coral Experiment (2:38) -- Algae vs. Coral (3:22) -- Developing a CO2 Response (2:15) -- Biosphere's Role (2:27) -- Rainforest Dome (2:41) -- Rare Plants (2:20) -- Building Our World (2:13) -- Intelligent Tinkering (2:18) -- Priceless Ecosystems (2:31) -- Sustaining the World Together (2:31) -- Additional Resources, Credits, & Sponsors: Forever Wild? (1:19)