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Amphibian Research This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how frogs help biologists study problems in the environment. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Bear Necessities This Nature video segment focuses on the four foods most important to the grizzly bears' survival, and it describes the threats to the supply of each of them. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bears' Lunch Counter This Nature video segment explores how the relationship between humans and grizzly bears has changed over the course of American History, and it describes the closing of the Yellowstone National Park garbage dumps in the 1970s. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bears in the Schoolyard Learn about the precautions humans must take in the face of a growing grizzly bear population in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Collapse of Sharks This video segment from Nature shows the destructiveness of the shark fin and shark cartilage industries. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Coral Reefs This video segment from Nature explores the unique status of Cuba’s coral reefs. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Desert Biome This video segment from NOVA: "A Desert Place" describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome. Accessibility features: Audio Description, Caption, Transcript	3-12	Video
Desert Habitat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines warm and cold (high) deserts, and describes some of the plants and animals found there as well as their adaptations for living in each type of desert. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Ecology This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines ecology and ecosystems and explains how all living and non-living things in an ecosystem interact and depend on the energy of the sun. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Elk This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the yearly life cycle of elk and follows them from their winter habitat to their summer habitat and back. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Endangered Species This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explores the many reasons why animals become endangered or become extinct. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Extreme Measures This video adapted from Nature describes efforts to protect salmon by killing or relocating species that prey on salmon. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Feasting on the Salmon Run This video from Nature focuses on the annual “salmon run,” when brown bears descend on Alaska’s rivers to fish in rivers teeming with salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Fish Research This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the Chinook salmon's life cycle in the Pacific Northwest and why it is an endangered species. A fisheries biologist takes students through some steps of fish research with explanations of the kinds of information biologists gather to perhaps help manage fish recovery. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Food Web This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K illustrates how a food web works. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Forests This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes rain, temperate and boreal forests and some of the animals that live in them. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Fossils This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how fossils are formed, discusses the Hagerman Horse fossil found in Idaho. It describes the tools Paleontologists use and why they study fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Habitat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the 4 basic requirements of a perfect habitat and what a niche is within a habitat. You'll see videos of different animals in their habitats, such as; bear, moose, spiders and mountain goats, Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Horseshoe Crabs and Humans This video from Nature highlights the horseshoe crab and its immense value to humans. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knots This video from Nature describes horseshoe crabs as an essential source of nutrition for migrating birds. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Humans and Salmon In this video from Nature, learn about the adverse impact humans have had upon salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Lava Landscapes Learn how volcanic activity affects the surrounding land in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Liberty Lands In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-8	Video
Life and Death of Salmon This video adapted from Nature explores the life and death of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Life in Florida's Spring In this video segment from Nature, get a close up look at life in the warm Florida springs and the numerous predators supported by the abundant life. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Life in the Water Supply Take a close look at life in one town’s water supply in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Owls This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K discusses the physical adaptations of owls for hunting their prey. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Protecting the Horseshoe Crab Learn about the measures taken to protect the horseshoe crab in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Red Tide Learn about red tide and the danger it poses to manatees in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Restoring Streams In this video from Nature learn how removal of old dams and river restoration is occurring all over the northwestern United States in an attempt to restore the natural environment and make salmon populations viable once again. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Salmon This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the life cycle of Idaho's salmon and how this life cycle is disrupted by river dams. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Salmon's Journey In this video from Nature, juvenile salmon face insurmountable odds to become adults and spawn. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Salmon in the Ecosystem This video adapted from Nature explores the critical role of salmon in an ecosystem, as well as efforts to reintroduce salmon nutrients into streams. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Sea Turtles This video segment from Nature explores the habitat of Cuba’s sea turtles. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Shark and Turtle In this Nature video, watch a battle between a loggerhead turtle and a shark. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Sharks in Our Future In this video segment from Nature, see the value that sharks can have on the tourism industry in an area. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Solar House In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an electrical engineer in Virginia and his 13-year-old son explain how they produce electricity in their home. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	5-9	Video
This is Their Land Examine how the human/grizzly relationship has changed since the closing of the Yellowstone dumps, and also learn about the challenges posed to both humans and bears, in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
To List or Not to List In this video from Nature, learn more about the ongoing debate regarding whether or not the grizzly bear population needs special protection . Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Unlikely Travel Companions A variety of symbiotic relationships exist between sharks and other marine species in this segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Urban Bears This video from Nature explores how black bears native to Alaska are adapting to the expanding urban sprawl of Anchorage, and vice versa. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Wetlands This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines wetlands and describes their 3 characteristics. The video stresses the importance of wetlands to wildlife. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Who Owns the Water of the Great Lakes? In this video segment from Planet H₂0: Water World, experts and teens inside and outside the Great Lakes watershed provide different perspectives on sharing the water from one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	5-12	Video
Wildlife This video from Nature introduces some of Cuba’s unique endemic species. Accessibility features: Transcript	8-12	Video
Wildlife Biology In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, learn how various indicator species are used to monitor the environmental condition of the Everglades. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	5-12	Video
Wildlife Management In this video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K tag along with a wildlife biologist and 2 students as they capture, collar, weigh and release mule deer fawns. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Zoology In this video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K the Zoo Boise Director, Steve Burns, takes us on a tour of Spider monkeys, cockroaches, Red Panda, tigers and Aldabra tortoises, explaining the role of zoos in conservation and breeding endangered species. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video