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America Outdoors: Understory

America Outdoors: Understory

How does our country’s diverse landscape shape our experience of the outdoors? That’s the central question behind the new PBS digital series, America Outdoors: Understory. Join host, Baratunde Thurston, as he explores the unexpected places and ways Americans encounter nature, and how their time outside is impacted by climate change, equity, access, outdoor culture and more.

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Discover the science behind this summer’s historic and devasting floods in Vermont.
Discover how bacteria could be the key to stopping mosquito-borne illnesses.
What happens when you remove dams that changed the Klamath River a hundred years ago?
Forests are in trouble, but could ancient wisdom be the answer to saving our trees?
Sand may seem unremarkable, but the modern world is built on it and we’re running out.
Explore one small town’s mission to save the night sky and help migrating birds.
Baratunde meets a rock climber who is working to diversify the sport.
Baratunde meets a plant parent who is bringing awareness to the issue of plant poaching.
Baratunde meets a Florida fossil hunter and learns how this hobby contributes to science.
Baratunde meets a female suburban bowhunter to discuss how the sport is changing.