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--Apple-Mail-13--57852034 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] re Wild Canada, The Nature of Things last > Thurs. eve. > > Thursday evening, I asked my dutiful wife Pat at home to tape The > Nature of Things at 8 pm on CBC-TV, because I knew it was the > beginning of a great-sounding 4-part series called "WILD CANADA -- > THE ETERNAL FRONTIER". We are very low-tech' people who still use > VCRs and videotapes, and it worked perfectly well -- the show was > really SUPER! > > My memory of the show is very spotty, but the show's starting point > in time is the last glaciation. Most of this first episode was > about the history of Canada's forests, starting with the east and > moving westward through prairies and mountains and coast, then to > the boreal forest, and finally to the low arctic tundra and high > arctic tundra. The photography by Sue & Jeff Turner was superb on > our low-definition TVs, but it was the historical tales narrated by > David Suzuki (yes, still doing it) that really caught my imagination. > > The eastern black oak forests were 'managed' by Aboriginals with > the use of purposeful fires, to create an open forest & savannah > complex. And he claimed that many more deer were able to live > there then than is possible now without the fires. > > Regarding the prairies, the spectacle of the Manitoba red-sided > garter snakes was shown in spring, with huge numbers of males that > emerge first and patiently? wait for the gradual emergence of the > females to attempt to mate with them. > > On the Pacific coast the white Spirit or Kermode bear (a type of > black bear) was shown learning to catch salmon. Also they showed > concentrated humpback whales feeding on the prodigiously produced > marine creatures along the northwest coast. > > Later they showed a mother polar bear with young cubs just emerged > from their den underneath very small trees of the edge of the > tundra (northern edge of boreal forest). > > The show mentioned that just after the last glaciers, mammoths kept > the ground and vegetation as a vast grassland. Then came good old > humans to change things, as they always do, here by destroying the > mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals and helping to change the > grassland into boggy tundra with different plants, which only > caribou can deal with in large numbers. > > And so on... I have left a lot out, and I must review the tape I > still have before next Thursday. FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT, my > weekend TV listings show The Nature of Things (unsure what titles) > listed for CBC's NEWSWORLD channel (50 in Valley, 29 in Halifax) on > Saturday at 8 pm and again on Sunday at 2 am. > > And here are two useful links to a review and the broadcast itself > that I got from Googling the show's title: > > Canada is gorgeous and wild, and this TV series has the footage to > prove it > The Globe and Mail > Wild Canada on The Nature of Things is stunning to watch, > gloriously ... An overriding theme is how the presence of humans > here has changed ... > > 'Wild Canada': CBC Nature TV Show Showcases Canada's Beauty > Huffington Post Canada . > -------------------------------------- > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ --Apple-Mail-13--57852034 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] re Wild Canada, The = Nature of Things last Thurs. eve.</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica">Thursday = evening, I asked my dutiful wife Pat at home to tape<b> The Nature of = Things</b> at 8 pm on CBC-TV, because I knew it was the beginning of a = great-sounding 4-part series called<b> "WILD CANADA -- THE ETERNAL = FRONTIER"</b>. We are very low-tech' people who still use = VCRs and videotapes, and it worked perfectly well -- the show was really = SUPER!</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 16.0px Helvetica">My memory of the show is very spotty, but the = <b>show's starting point</b> in time is the last glaciation. Most = of this first episode was about the <b>history of Canada's forests</b>, = starting with the east and moving westward through prairies and = mountains and coast, then to the boreal forest, and finally to the low = arctic tundra and high arctic tundra. The <b>photography by Sue = & Jeff Turner </b>was superb on our low-definition TVs, but it was = the historical tales narrated by<b> David Suzuki</b> (yes, still doing = it) that really caught my imagination.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica">The = <b>eastern black oak forests</b> were 'managed' by <b>Aboriginals</b> = with the use of <b>purposeful fires</b>, to create an open forest & = savannah complex. And he claimed that many more deer were able to = live there then than is possible now without the fires.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; ma