it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and it. when i look at the artifacts that the anastazi made, especially the painted black and white, i see that landscape. i see the coloradplateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this fla

american landscape. the plants that lewis and clark had brought from their expedition, which were a reminder of the promises that lay in the west. there were fields near the pleasure grounds, which was jefferson's manifestation of his belief in america as agrarian, and then there was the vegetable terrorists. 1,000 feet long. this was the experimental hub, the kind of scientific lab of monticello, because jefferson very much believed that the introduction of a new and useful species was an important patriotic task. he says that the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. and so important that when he is judging his services to this country he, of course, writes another list. and on this list includes the declaration of independence, but he also includes his introduction of upland rice and the olive tree. he thinks this is as important as his political act. during the last years in the white house he creates this ornamental farm in monticello. it is a ve

this landscape is all about water. and on the last trip you can see the sea of cortez out there on the horizon. we walked to the edge of the dunes and even out there, just past the edge of the dunes, you would find places where there's -- there were piles of pottery, pottery scattered in the sand, and then the desert pan extended out and then you reach the sea of cortez that lies beyond. you know, i should -- i want to show you guys these next slides. i'm kind of running out of time here but i've got to show you this place. i'm not going to go into heavy detail, i want to take you down here into the sierra madre. i was following routes all over for the house of rain, trying to figure out where the anastazi went when they left house of rain. many of them made the modern pueblos but other groups continued south. i followed pottery trails down into the sierra madre where my wife and two others went out and we came to these cliff dwellings. it seemed like every single cave we looked into had cliff dwellings. and this wasn'

other carcinogens on the landscape and into a canal that lead into the danube river it will take the eco systems decades to recover. forests are among the ecosystems that are most often damaged or destroyed in combat itself the main reason for that is because they're very useful for guerrillas trying to find concealment from forces with superior firepower forty years ago when the united states was trying to prevail in vietnam and its enemies the viet cong were using the forests for concealment the american forces tried through fire and chemical defoliants to clear large parts of the forests of vietnam. not invulnerable. they think of themselves as wrong and they have. seven days in the week fifty two weeks a year most days in the base to spew out the total of nearly eighteen thousand gallons of diesel. from one nine hundred sixty two in one nine hundred seventy one the u.s. military conducted a large scale defoliation drive code named operation ranch hand planes helicopters and tanker trucks sprayed nineteen million gallons of herbicides on south vietnam. i should mention agent orang

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scattered about the landscape you do not have the use of agricultural land to the population you can post tension only infect water supplies and the food chain. and i would say that that's basically the case almost anywhere that you use fire power either air power or to agree the primary goal in warfare is to beat the enemy and when you want to defeat the enemy as quickly and is. probably cost effectively as you'd like use the most dangerous weapons you can for the most part unless you're your own troops your own population happens to be on the battlefield. with three six barrel gatling gun each capable of firing up to six thousand rounds for a minute one of these so-called dragon ships and inflict heavy damage. when i arrived in vietnam february of one thousand and seventy. there was a really a great deal of destruction we were taken out on missions mainly by helicopter our missions were called search and destroy we would try to search out the enemy and destroy the enemy in the kuchi area there were in numerable tunnels and usually we would try to blow these tunnels up with c. four

staggered about the landscape. the use of agricultural land to the population you can tension really infect the water supply and the food chain and i would say that that's basically the case almost anywhere that you use fire power either air power artillery. the primary goal in warfare is to beat the enemy and when you want to defeat the enemy as quickly and as. for the cost effectively as you like but you use the most dangerous weapons you can for the most part unless you're your own troops your own population happens to be in belfield. with three six battle gatling gun each capable of firing up to six thousand. one of the still dragon ships and in every day. when i arrived in vietnam. february one thousand nine hundred seventy. there was a really a great deal of destruction and we were taken out on missions mainly by helicopter i missions were called search and destroy we would try to search out the enemy and destroy the enemy and we could cheer yeah they were in numerable tunnels and usually we would try to buil

prison magazine and rolling stone his newest book sweet habit when i die explores the spiritual landscape of the united states and profiles religious radicals realists escapist and straddle that undefined border between belief and skepticism very pleased to welcome jeff sharlet conversations great minds. hi tom good to be with you thanks for joining us on it we've talked before about some of your other books when they came out in particular the family but we've never talked about jeff sharlet and what animates you to write about. religion spirituality culture and the collisions and intersections the wicket the kind of joy and agony that comes out of all of that i'm curious what what drew you all into the into this topic are these this range of top. yeah you know i think it's a little bit it's a little bit it's gonna run it's a little bit substance and i'm interested in journalism that goes beyond the traditional stack of facts and in fact i'm convinced that we need to do that kind of journalism for really can understand what's going on in the country you need to do sort of more than the w

up next we take you to russia's remote region where the landscape has almost remained unchanged since is was discovered hundreds of years ago stay with us. the shore of the seal before it's paralyze mother down one of the most extreme regions of russia you can get to the most remote parts of to costco and from here. these researches are off to what may well turn out to be a sensation they know that something unusual has been found on the banks of one of the rivers in the country's north the scientists want to see whether the find is indeed as unique because they have been led to believe if it turns out to be true the scientific community will get an intriguing glimpse to what life on earth was like thousands of years ago. expedition will travel across western chukotka a northeastern yakutia a wealth of remains of extinct animals dating back to the ice age is hidden beneath the permafrost none of the fossils and tusks have been found here. however the fine that the researches are after is something special a prehistoric bison completely mummified by nature. of which some forty mummifie

>> this is a very narrow strip of land that will be used for access and landscaping?>> my concern is in general there will be a neat to have employees maintain the area unless each of the lease holders will parcel it out and the individual leaseholders take up that responsibility. there will be a need to maintain the area. that is what i am getting at. >> these require maintenance of the area and the sublease has the most modern form of sublease in the city attorney's office and it requires all of the prevailing wage requirements under section 24.22. >> can you direct me to a number within the file that refers to that prevailing wage provision? >> section 24.22, wages and working conditions. this was not in your packet because this is a different matter. >> we had a discussion about our desire to recognize that there is a particular wage rate for this type of work, landscaping, horticulture. my concern is that the prevailing wage that is on file at the department of industrial relations might not cover the type of work we have covered here with specific wage rate. tha

are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. i think it's a pretty amazing example as to how a town can really turn on a dime if there's the political will and if the public gets behind it. narrator: even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. mulroy: the las vegas strip uses only 3% of all the water that we deliver. and when you think about it, it's the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. they knew they had to go the extra mile. and they've embraced conservation. and it's almost beyond belief that they're right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. southern nevada recycles 100% of its wastewater. so for every gallon we put back in the colorado, we can take an additional gallon out, or we send it to reuse facilities. and we deliver it to golf courses and parks and other outside applications. man: water's about a thi

the landscape's always changing, the river's changing... [narrator] the experience of running this project made the forest service realize the potential of historic sites such as these for tourists. their next project-- footprints--is more ambitious. [man] the basic concept we're trying to get is to bring people close to the land much in the same fashion that the kenaitze people lived here many, many years ago in this area, is to demonstrate their heritage, to demonstrate their closeness to the land, to try and get people to understand their culture-- not only their culture, but a native culture in general-- to show how they're linked with the land, the landscape, the vegetation, the water, the seasonal aspects, certain amount of mobility they would use to move to where the resources were at that time of year. the footprints site will be a larger, more developed interpretive opportunity. the real value is tying the prehistoric past with contemporary people and getting across the idea that cultures aren't static. cultures are changing things

of a good think should be an open landscape he would scatter tribes bush is for trees tiny bruce a lake sent the tree into grass why do they mow the grass and parks you may ask that's because there were millions of herbivores in the old days you know that there were you have a cup ras was there staple food it's the sort of landscape that man is used to i'm comfortable here i'm trying to recreate the natural environment in which my distant ancestors lived. so cool the arctic steps existed in the north thousands of years ago an abundance of food attracted numbness and other have with those. early man quickly followed suit. today most of the people living in this rugged region of mine precious metals. this is a gold mining field and to call to cut in russia is far east ironically it is because of the gold industry that now months have been found scraping off the top layer of permafrost in search of mineral wealth revealed these prehistoric names but sometimes they emerge naturally. you know people don't know why a permafrost sometimes looks to form. it's because there's a foreign object ly

stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint will stay for 5 years, maybe even 10 years for somebody who's got a really good eye where you come walking along and you see the slightest depression in the ground and you kneel at it and you figure out that it was a person with about a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. e

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