Yeah. There you go.
>> You still got hair?
Yeah.>> You have hair?>> Yeah.
That's right. Gotsome?
Yeah. I just got tocut two
weeks ago. So it'salmost fresh
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He's like.
>> You know, I
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.>> Really? Yeah.>> I guess
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Last night and I
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take on connecting
throughthese. >> Francisco.
I'm ten years
old and I
Huffaker sister.
>> Tell me who you'resitting next to
.>> My grandma .
>> What's your favorite thing about your
?>> My favorite thing.
Healways stayed
there for me .
>> Francisco's father
is inMen's
Central Jail
in LA. He's been there
almostthree years .
Franciscobasically lived in a
littletown in Mexico byGuadalajara
. I brought him
here back in July because
he wanted to
be with hisdad . He misses his
dad alot , so I put
him in school. The language barrier
hasbeen hard on him, but he's
trying to get into themen's Central jail
. Youhave to be on the
phone 12:00 midnight Thursday
. [MUSIC]
two minutes to totry to
get an appointment. And if you
don't get theappointment , that's it.
Iwish he could see him
moreoften, but he only sees him
like every 2 or 3 weeks.
Weget there by 1030 or so
andwe go put
money on hisbooks, and
then they tellyou to sit down and
wait.When I walked in there
oneday, I saw this little
library beautiful. And I was like, wow
, that'sreally nice . But I didn't
know that the kids wereallowed to
take books.>> Do you have to
wait alot in the jail?>>
Yeah, like 2 or 3 hours
.Every time we go, we
takesome new books.>>
Find your favorite dinosaur in there as
fastas you can
here. Okay. You
got it pretty fast .>> We take
advantage because of the fact
thathe's still having a hardtime reading
. I read with him and I
translate it tohim. t's the
hardest partabout the visit?
>> Seeing your son there
? My grandson and
my son just hold
the the glass
withtheir hands.
My son triesto
put a face, you know,like it
doesn't bother him,but I know it does
.>> What's something that
makes you feel proud
about Francisco?
>> The way
he is, the smile
that he has when he comesout of
school saying, you know, I did
this, I did that, and I
love you. He always tells me, I
love you.I'm proud of you, Papa
.[MUSIC] you.
[MUSIC] name is Linda
.>> My name is Francisco. >> This
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pbswisconsin.org. >> You
know when you get toa new
place and right away you feel that there's
something special about it ,but you can't
quite putyour finger on what it is
?That's exactly how I feltfirst time
I visited the Driftless Region.
>> This land
is ancient.
>> Holding on
to the yellow .
>> All right, there's thecamera.
Yeah. >> And here is
your safety.>> This is me.
My name is Jonas Stenstrom, and I'm
from Sweden. But right nowI'm hanging on
the edge ofa cliff by the Mississippi
River in southern Minnesota .
Why? Well, we'll get tothat in
a little bit. [MUSIC]
my best friendand business partner, RobNelson
.>> He's got to figure outwhich way
deeper water is.>> We're both biologistsand
filmmakers, andtogether we travel all over
to find and documentinteresting wildlife
stories .
It started as apassion
to document nature ,and now
we feel it's our mission to show our
children that interesting nature stories can be
foundeven in places you don'texpect it
. Where we areright
now is one of those.>> Here, get
a close up ofthis. are in the
DriftlessRegion, an area located bythe
upper Mississippi Riverfrom southern Minnesota andWisconsin
to northern Iowa,and
a small section of northwestern Illinois. The
reason this region isspecial is in
its nameDriftless Drift, or
morespecifically, glacial drift,is
a geological term formaterial
transported andleft behind by glaciers
.[MUSIC] times inhistory
, much of the landhas been covered
by glacialice times we often
refer toas glacial periods, or morecommonly, the
ice ages.During the last glacialperiod
, which is believed to have ended
about 11,000years ago , the mile
thickpack of ice moved south
from Canada and coveredmuch of the
northern partof the US. Its destructive
force crushed everything inits way
, and when the iceeventually disappeared
, theland underneath was forever
changed, literally leveled the ground.
[MUSIC] of
all theknown glacial
periods, thearea we today call the
Driftless Region never gotcovered by
the ice. [MUSIC]
this region got spared, and
what was left behind was an environment
filled with interesting ies, with great
environmental and culturalimportance.
[MUSIC] why did
all theseglacial advances miss the
Driftless Region? This is unique
on Earth. We're here to find
someanswers. [MUSIC]
is really the one whotold me
I had to come andsee this. He
was herefilming a few years ago and
the more the team starteddigging into it
, the morethey realized that this wasa
truly unique part of theworld an d
that most peoplehad no idea about it
.>> The Driftless sound.>> I'm
not exactly surewhat you're talking about.>>
The team left with toomany unanswered questions
,stories that seemed toointeresting
to stay undocumented.
Rob called me up and said,
hey, Jonas,get the cameras ready. We
have some places to visit.
Hey, so
here we are. Butnone of this
would havebeen possible without ourtwo local
guides, GeorgeHowe and Tim Jacobson.
[MUSIC] biologist born andraised
in the Driftless,George is like a walking
book of stories about theregion.
Countless fragments of marine organisms,
lifecycle of freshwater mussels.>>
And Tim equally as filled with knowledge about
the ins and outs of theDriftless,
and always armedwith a camera and ready
ifthere's something to document.
freaky. It wasreally freaky.>> Their
passion for theDriftless is really the
reason this story started in the first place
.>> Let's head up the bluff.>> Right
now. We're itchingto start looking for some
of the answers to the manyquestions we
have. And whatbetter place to start than
from the sky. Lucky for us,
Tim is also a pilot, so.
>> I probably should
showyou what we .
>> Testing. 123. Can you
guys hear me ? Hear you over
.>> I can hear you over.>>
Great. Three. Three.
One.Ready for takeoff.
>> That's awesome.[MUSIC]
>> Basically got the entire
Mississippi River down here.>> It's
pretty amazing tosee the Mississippi River
from this perspective . Thehuge
amount of water movingdownstream and
constantlyreshaping the river valley
in its way. Wow, this is
cool.>> Massive floodplainforest
to our right. >> The water pushing
sediment around, cuttingthrough large
floodplainforests and creating anetwork
of little islands and winding canals
everywhere in between. [MUSIC]
One exception is Lake Pepin,the
largest lake in the widest natural
section ofthe entire MississippiRiver
. Another
interestingobservation we made were
small dots on the landscapesinkholes
that seem to pepper the fields
. But themost
striking features ofthe area are, without a
doubt, the steep bluffs lining the mighty
i River. From
theground, they look likeimpressive hills
, withsections of vertical,exposed rock
that islayered in bands with
different colors. But fromthe air.
There's alsosomething else about thebluffs that
stands out. >> The bluffs
look totally different from here.
[MUSIC] the sameheight.
>> Yeah. That's interesting.
>> All the bluffs liningthe river
, as well asfurther inland are the
exact same height, like thepeaks have
all been shaveddown to the same level
. Butinstead of just a flatplateau
, the land is dissected by valleys
the bluffs, creating this striking
aphy that ischaracterizing
theDriftless. >> It's
interesting to seeit from up here because
youcan't see any lakes, butthere is
a lot of water .There's rivers and
streamscutting across thelandscape in the
valleysbetween the bluffs. But the
only large body of water isthe
Mississippi River. [MUSIC]
the streams andrivers seem to also
eventually link up with theMississippi.
[MUSIC] are seeing are the
results of the uniquegeomorphology that has
shaped the Driftless Region .
How is the differentquestion? But
everything islinked the streams,
thebluffs, the MississippiRiver. And to understa
ndthis, we must first look
athow this land was formed inthe
first place. And theclues are
in the bluffs .
>> So one of the
thingsthat I talk about with
mystudents is, what did this
landscape look like at these various points in
time? And one of the thingsI think
is really neat about studying rocks,
forinstance, is that's how weknow, right
? That's wherethat information comes fromabout
the natural historyof the world that we
livein. explains that thebluffs
are made up of sedimentary rock that dates
back to a time when all ofthis
, and in fact, the whole planet, looked a
lotdifferent. we look at the
rocks that make up thebluffs, those
rocks haveclues within them that tell
us that this would havebeen a tropical
sea, thatwe would have had here 500
to 450 million years ago.Right.
Which is crazy to think about when you
lookat this landscape that wesee today
. And we're in the mid latitudes in the
northern hemisphere. stop here for a
minute and take this in. Weare now
about a thousandmiles from the Atlanticcoast
to the east, and morethan 1700 miles
from thePacific coast to the west.
And all of this was oncepart of
a subtropical ocean .
>> North America would havebeen tilted
about 90degrees on its side
, and wewould have been located at
about 20 or so degreessouth latitude in
theSouthern hemisphere . Right.And so
over time, NorthAmerica
spun and worked itsway up to
its modern day location.
layerswere continuously being
deposited on the bottomceiling.
In another chapter in geological history.
[MUSIC] The
resulting sediment layer cake we
see in placeslike here in the
Driftlessis like a geological
calendar, locking in manyof the
marine creaturesthat were present in thesewaters
at different times .
>> Oh yeah, a
gastropod.Got it. n.
Show me fromDecorah , Iowa. And
it's myfather, John Show-Me.
Andalso from the . We met
whenhe was born .
Well, I grewup picking
arrowheads, which
became fossil pickingwhen we
started canoeing.And so I talked to
Jordanabout fossil picking ,
andit didn't take much to
gethim hooked .[MUSIC]
story. >> The
flat spirals like
these are called maclurites.
They are the ones with this
spiral are gastropods.
Having started at a youngage, I
think it's just a part of who I
am. I feellike that's my main passion
is being out there innature and exploring
andbeing in caves and lookingfor fossils
and arrowheads. And I think
as it startedat a young age. Yep
, ithooked me .
>> This is amazing. Like,look
at this particularrock . I mean,
I guess theseare bivalves, little
seashell type things.
Andthe cool thing is this
is 400 million years ago
andyou can still find thingsthat look
just like thistoday . Yep. The other
coolthing is that we arenowhere near
the ocean. And these are ocean animals
. That's pretty
amazing. Holy moly.
>> Aside from a chance
tofind fossils, there areother things
that intrigueus about this sedimentaryrock
layer cake. [MUSIC]
When different layers ofrock are stacked
on top ofeach other like this,interesting
things canstart to happen on theground
. As we noticed on our initial flight over
thearea. Fossils are
found ina limestone rock, a
rocktype that may slowly startto
dissolve away as water passes through it. Over
time. water.>> Filters
through this,it'll actually
dissolvepart of the rock, and over
time, those cracks
start toget bigger and biggerbecause
we're dissolvingmore and more of that rock
.And so what happens is wecreate
these caverns withinthe
rock. >> That is
a sinkhole right there. That's a
sinkhole. All those those
aresinkholes. is a sinkhole.>> A sinkhole. Any
time yousee little patches
of trees,that's pretty much asinkhole, probably
. Yeah.Like this right here. Rightnext
to the road.>> That's next to
thecemetery. >> Oh,
wow. This whole landscape is
just dotted with these little
patchesof trees .
And when you get up to the little
patches oftrees, you realize thatthey
go straight down .>> A
sinkhole would be
sortof a big room or
a bigcavern that would form
. Andas it dissolves , as thatrock
dissolves and we start
to get a thinner andthinner
layer up above it,that layer
, that top layer can then collapse, right.
d so then we have
thesurface layer collapse intothe
sub layer, creating oneof these sinkholes.>> I'm
right over the topof this sinkhole
. Look howdeep it is. You see how
that's the top? That's thetop of the
trees in thathole . Who would have
thought that there is asinkhole? Capital
. Andwe're in it right now.
Fountain, Minnesota. Sinkhole, capital
of theUSA .
Why are the sinkholeshere and
not other places?>> Well
, they're much more prominent in this
fountainarea here, because thatlimestone that slowl
y dissolves is
very close to .>> Okay,
until your segment with him and
I can come.>> And I'm hiding this
now,right. o. Yeah.
Onthe ground. Does that work
where youcan reach it, too, if you
want. you want.
>> No, we're doing that
ina later segment, I
think. Always good to get
the. >> Why
not? I mean , if yougot
it.>> That's right.>> Yeah.
We were just about to make sure you
guys.>> Are. Plugged in.>> Is
this is this okaywhere this
is hanging.>> It might be. Yeah
. Ifyou can just kind of tuckit
back. That'll be good .And then can we
get youplugged in ?>> Oh, you.
Know, you guys.>> So demanding.>>
Wow. >> There it was
. Everythingwas fine .
>> To me there.
>> But so
is that. Wetalked
about that onequestion. Is
there anotherquestion for this firstsegment
that you wanted to cover? Yeah, I.
>> Thought here you can seewhat what
they gave me for notes. They're pretty basic
.So how did it happen okay.And that
may take us in adifferent direction. That's
fine. Oh you can feel freeto
look at me or the camera,whichever is
morecomfortable. Okay. It'll bethe one
with the light on .Well, they both have
lightsometimes. Sometimes that's on, sometimes not. But
it'll be the one you cansee that's
staring right atus . Okay. Are you guys
going to be doing twocameras on us
? So one onhim and one on me
, or is itgoing to be just us
twoshot? believe it's.>> Just
a two shot. Okay ,so they'll have us
bothtogether. Okay. And you canlook at
me, okay? Or the camera or back and
forth,whatever feels comfortable to you. Okay? And
it's justa matter . Of what works for
you. So in the second one,the response
.>> To the film about thesecond segment
.>> Sorry, second element ofthis second question
. Okay.The second element of thisbreak
. Yeah. Depending onwhere we
get through onthis one, we'll talk about
how people respond. Whatkind of things
do you hearfrom people. You know,
because this is it's in states.
Yeah. Right.And I looked at the
.>> And Tim you're theexpert. So
you know just lean on your expertise
. And James is a
wonderfulconversationalist. >>
So so you've been
runall over this area.
ButLexington, KentuckyTallahassee,
Florida.>> Well , that's very
outdated. We've actually had it broadcast in
atleast 42 states .>> 40 okay
. That'simportant. >> And that
those statistics are
three yearsold .>> 42
states is great.>> That's a minimum of
42states. >> Almost 50.
We're almostthere. So that's great.>>
It's been in Alaska .It's been in New
York State.It's been in Arizona.>>
It's good.>> Good pretty much
allover the country .>> Well, and
depending onthe markets you're in thatreaches
99% of the people anyhow. So that's great
.Yeah. Good good . So
you cansay that because I'll
askabout things like that. Youknow
, it's been broadcast alot and you
can say, wellit'll be a conversation.You
don't have to worry about talking for a
minuteand a half . Stop whereveryou feel
comfortable orkeep on going, okay. Theywill
put up a she the thefloor director
. She's goingto have a thing that'scounting
us down, okay? And then she's going to
getdown. Do you do it a 15
orokay, 15 seconds . When weget to that, if you keep
ontalking, I'll sort of cutyou off
, okay? Theappropriate time .>> I'm more likely
to belooking at you thanwatching
those cards. If
that's. , I'm going tobe
going both directions,but that's fine. Yeah
.
>> One. >> Hi,
I'm James Steinbach. I'm a volunteer here
at PBSWisconsin, and
we're justtaking a quick break from
Decoding the World, thewilderness. It is
kind ofthe wilderness , theDriftless.
This is abeautiful film. I love
thisfilm for a lot of reasons,and
we'll get a chance totalk about that
as we goalong . But what I want
tosay now is that in order to
have programs like this , wehave to have
thispartnership between you andus. And I'm
part of thepartnership , too. I'm asustainer
. I've been asustainer for a long time
.Together, we are going tomake sure that
publicbroadcasting in Wisconsin stays on the air
. Oh, andin fact , I have to remember
to thank my friend Mike,who I just
met at the at habitat where I volunteer
.Mike, you said you weregoing to. So
come on,expect a call. Come on.Right
on up. This program Ithink,
is a real gem . It'sthe kind of
program youexpect to see from from
public broadcasting, from
PBS Wisconsin. And you arenot going to
find itanyplace else . And that'sbecause
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thatmatter to you . They make a
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1-800-236-3636. >> Hi,
I'm Natalie, I'm a
staff member here at
PBSWisconsin. And what a treat
it is to gain new
perspective into themarvels
of the Driftless Area. I have
to admit, I'm a little obsessed with
theDriftless Area. Once Idiscovered
it existed way back in 1986,
and it's beenaround way longer than that
,obviously. But because ofyour support
, we are able to bring you
programs likethis, and we have
somewonderful ways to thank you.Tonight
, with a gift of $12a month, you can
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Decoding the Driftless DVD
or Blu ray,or
with the gift of $12 amonth,
you can receive this
beautiful book to accompany the
documentary Decodingthe The
Driftless. It's a reader book,
and Idefinitely am going to
pickone of these up myselfbecause like
I said, I am obsessed with the Driftless
Area. And if you have a
gift of $25 a
month, youwill get the
book, the DVD.
Also this beautiful PBSWisconsin
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Soplease call 1-800-236-3636.
>> Hi, I'm Eric Greiling.I'm
the director of Friends of PBS Wisconsin
. When wasthe last time you
weretruly surprised or awed
bysomething? When's the last time you made
an unexpecteddiscovery ? Well, here at
PBS Wisconsin, we want to
take you there . We want totake
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. We want to take you to special
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Please considerbecoming a
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>> So get to
introduce.This is important.
Tim Jacobson
, who is the one of
the producers and presidentof
the SustainableDriftless. Did I
get thatright? You did. Yes.>>
Good. I don't always oneof the producers
of thefilm now you know
I knowand you especially knowthese things
don't justhappen . They take a
tremendous amount of work .So how did
this happen? >> Yeah, well
, the film Decoding the Driftless
wasmy second film
about the Driftless Region.
So we had my co-producer,
George Howe,the late George Howe,
and Ihad a relationship for
along time with Untamed
Science, which was an
organization that made
science learning fun. And
so we had worked with them,collaborated on
an earlierfilm,
mysteries of theDriftless , and which
wasreleased and broadcast on
PBS in 2013. And
then andthen in 2018, we we came
together. Well, actually,starting about
2016, westarted making
Decoding the Driftless. It was
a multi-year
process.>> Together we'll get achance
to talk about thismore. In the m eantime
, callus at 1-800-236-3636.
>> Your gift allows
filmmakers like Tim here tobring
these natural wonders right into your home
, weekafter week , year after year
.So we have wonderful
giftsto thank you tonight, agift
of $12 a month , youwill receive
either thisbeautiful DVD,
Blu ray edition
or this wonderful book, which is
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It's a great accompany tothe
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Blu ray. You will receive the
wonderful. Excuse
medecoding the DriftlessReader's
Edition, and you will also receive
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,the right color to betraveling
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. And alsothis wonderful
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Driftless Area so you don'tget lost
. Thank you so much.And please
call us at 1-800-236-3636.
>> This film,
Decoding theDriftless is really special
to me because I come fromthe
Driftless. I'm aRichland Center boy
, and I learned things from this
film that I didn't knowthat
I wanted to go discover firsthand,
evenhaving spent so much time
there in my youth , I didn'tknow
they were there. And that's one of the
richthings about the DriftlessArea is there's
alwayssomething to discover ,whether it's over
the hillor in the next valley
, orjust around that big
oaktree. If you're a
driftless native, a driftless
person,or just a fan of theDriftless
, please give us a call. Go online
. Use thatQR code . If you use that
QRcode, it'll take you rightto the
gifts and you can make your selection for
theway we can say thank youwhen you support pro
graming like this program
thattakes you into the heart of
Wisconsin and shows youjust a little
bit more. We can't do it without you and
we love doing it
for you.So please give us a call
at 1-800-236-3636.
>> So I.
>> Love what. Eric was saying
aboutdiscovery, which issomething
that's reallyimportant to us here at
PBS.This film is all
aboutdiscovery. And people
around the country havediscovered this film
. Sotalk about that a bit.What's been
the reaction?>> Yeah , well, we were
really amazed when we , youknow, made our
first film.It was broadcast justaround the
upper Midwest. And so when we
came outwith Decoding the Driftless,we kind
of assumed the same thing, you know
, maybeWisconsin, Minnesota, Iowathat,
you know, Illinois, perhaps. And it
ended upgetting broadcast in more
than 42 states around thecountry
. So we were justthrilled.
So good to hear .>> So many
people havelearned about the DriftlessRegion through
this film.>> And do you get to
speakwith folks about this, too?
I mean, this is your life,to
put it broadly.>> Well
, I have a day job,but yeah, we
definitely getto speak .>> Well, I met
withDriftless as you .>> Oh yes, the
Driftless isdefinitely my life. Filmmaking
is something Isqueeze in
every now andagain . But yeah,
it's beena great to hear the
reaction from so many people who just love
andmarvel at the Driftless
Region. film
beautifulsomething, not just the
content, which is wonderfulwhat
you see, but the wayit's been put
together.We'll be able to talk aboutthat
a bit more in the nextbreak, I
think. So staytuned . Stay tuned and
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>> To this date,
no naturalsurface
entrance to thiscave has been found and
thespring resurgence has beengated
off for safetyreasons .[MUSIC]
way to get to thecave system
today is here .
>> From Sweden. So
do youkeep track you.
>> Down below, guys?
>> So at some point
they drilled this
whole hole down.
Somehow they hadfigured out
that down hereis the best place
toactually get to the cavesystem
. >> Whoa.
>> The sinkhole cave
gaveus an idea of what wasgoing
on, but this is just
incredible. We're standing in an underground
river,running through a tunnel
large enough to fit a train.
And we're lucky therehasn't been
a whole lot of rain lately. So the
wateris waist deep at most.>>
Basically, we're trying to traverse back
into thiscave , but it's tricky
because every step is.
Different. The
biggesthazard is tripping. So just
go really slow. Well.
>> Try not to dunk thecameras
. Jonas. >> Who?
>> That's what I need.
Goback and forth
on this oneand try to get.>>
Oh, that's gonna be cool.>> Okay.
Hold it. Three. Two. One.
>> The tunnel almost looks
dug out. Yeah, looks
nice. >> But no human
has hadanything to do with making
this only water slowly,
over time, eroding away the
limestone sedimentary rock and creating a network
oftunnels and passageways.[MUSIC]
In several
places, we can see how water
is literallycoming out of the rock and
feeding more water to theunderground river.
IC]And just a short walk
upstream, we come across awhole
rock covered infossils .[MUSIC]
These are crinoids , ancientsea lilies
, relatives oftoday's sea stars.
These were
common in thesubtropical sea thatcovered
this part of theplanet
around 300 to 500 million years ago.
[MUSIC] >> Nice.
>> Breathing hard likeyou're
. >> I was looking
orsomething. >> Yep.
Clear.>> Good tap.>> That
was fun.>> And even if it feels
like we've seen a lot onthis visit
, it's only asmall part of the more
than17 miles of tunnels thathave been
explored so far .>> Just want
to remindeveryone what we'reactually standing
on here.Check this out.>> 17
miles of tunnelsunder
this. >> Having
seen this spring
resurgence and knowing whatit
is like inside this cave.How
vast, how beautiful the
formations. Whenever I see
anotherspring, I have the same
thoughts and visual that
come and just flood me with what
is thatcave system like?
There area lot of caves,
springresurgences in the area,
some of them with higherflow rates
of water that are exiting out.
And thatonly leads you to believe
that the cave system iseven larger
than this cavesystem . And
this one is already at
17.2 miles so far.
>> The interactions
betweenthe unique geology and
water have undoubtedlygiven rise
to many hiddenmysteries in the Driftless
Region, and there arelikely many more
that areyet to be discovered.[MUSIC]
is even more interesting is how this
subterranean network of cracks and tunnels
continues to shape theregion, also
on the outside ,
as it takes several yearsfor the water to filter
through the sedimentaryrock,
the temperature of the springs that
eventuallyexit the bluffs stay cool
all year round , and hasgiven rise
to a rich and diverse abundance of
wildlife. One example is
the native brook trout,which
is a species thatdepends on cold
and cleanwater to survive,
and thisis an area where they
thrive. The Driftless is
today oneof the best trout
fishingdestinations in the country,and
it has the highest density of cold
waterstreams in the world.
The springs and
rainwater grows into streams and
eventuallylarge rivers. [MUSIC]
like underground,as the
water moves over the landscape, it slowly
eatsits way into the loosesedimentary
rock layers. Itis this
process that, overa few million years
, hascreated the Driftless andthe bluffs
as we see them today.
>> When you're looking at amountain,
is usually an uplift event that
forced the landscape
upwards. Herewe had
several erosion events that
carved theriver channel within the
surrounding landscape. So we have what
we callinverse topography. >> This is the
explanationto why all the bluffs arethe
exact same height. [MUSIC]
look totallydifferent from here, butthey're all
about the sameheight .>> The top of
the bluffs issimply the baseline where
everything was at some point, and anything
belowis what has been carved outand
removed through erosion .>> By that
process of chemically dissolving
materials and physically
eroding, picking upmaterials and transporting
that. You ultimately gofrom
having this relatively
flat sedimentary rock tohaving
a landscape that hasbeen carved
up and has thisdendritic pattern
ofstreams that are found all
across it. >> This so-called
streamdissected landscape is wh at
stands out from surroundingareas where
glaciers wipethe slate clean.
But insome rare places, it
is notthe water that comes out of
the bluffs that creates aunique ecosystem
. Instead,it's the air.
George andTim
are taking us to a spotin the
forest that, quitehonestly , is a beast
tofind. Now, on the
way to hike into the woods.
>> I was going to go thisway
today. But this is ajungle. So
let's head upthe bluff.
>> We're looking for astrange and rare
habitatcalled an algific talusslope
. >> Who
pretty densevegetation.
There are.
>> Did you
find it? >> Hello.
>> He said he found it
.>> Up here .>> He found
it.>> Tim found it.
He finallyfound it.
This is the Algific talus
slopes. >> We want
to be carefulnot to walk over
herebecause this is a veryfragile
geology. There's all this
fractured rock under here
that the cold air moves through.
Thebluff is actually breathinghere. There's
air beingtaken
in a vent, probably
200ft uphill. But
there are places inthis bluff
where there'sice from last winter
.>> Let's try and explainthis.
Algific means cold producing, and
talus is a word for the broken
rockfragments that make up theupper layer
of this soil .Inside of these bluffs
, itcan get very cold.
Waterthat flows through thelimestone in
the winterfreezes and can form
icecaves that may stay frozenall
year round. Air getscooled down
by this frozen underground world and gets
verted out of the bluffthrough vents
in thelimestone. This, in turn
,generates a pressure gradient that starts
withair being sucked in throughthe
vents on top of thebluff, down to
the icecaves, where it gets cooleddown
and then pushed out through the talus slope
vents. >> Yeah, this is
kind ofwhat it feels like if I wasto sit down
here, righthere .
[MUSIC] like I'm
getting hit with an air conditioner
.[MUSIC] is such an
incredibly distinct
temperature difference
just fromstanding up to sitting down
.>> So I have a a
thermometer I
put in the slope here a
little while ago and
let's check it .
Ohmy god , it's
below freezing.
This thermometer is
at 25 degrees.
Yes. Come
and look,Jonas . They're
verifying it 32
degrees and it's
down at like, 24.
Yeah, okay. Andit's
rising fast as I bringit out
. Now it's going back up to freezing. But
it wasit was almost down to
20when I had it down here in
the vent. 20 Fahrenheit
negativefive centigrade.
For usEuropeans it's
impressive. >> Algific
talus slopesonly exist here in
theDriftless Region and oneother
place in WestVirginia . It is hard
tothink that any plants wouldthrive
under these conditions, but there are
me exceptions , like thebeautiful
northernMonkshood, this rare
flowerhas adapted to
live in thecold and fragile soils
ofthese algific talus slopes.
[MUSIC] addition to the rare
plants, there are also awhole collection
of raresnails found only here.
Pleistocene relics, so tospeak. Both the
Pleistocenesnails and northernmonkshood
are listed as federally endangered.
The casual observer,
though,might not realize how rare
they are, but we'rebasically
seeing Ice Age holdovers.
>> You come here, you can
see the plants, thenorthern
monkshood andother plants actuallyquivering
because this cold air is is
pouring out of the side of the
hillthrough these vents . And sothe
leaves are just quivering away.
It's reallywild .>> I
think if I was to
justwalk through this forestnot
knowing anything aboutthis, I
probably wouldn'thave , you know,
paid toomuch attention to it
exceptfor these beautiful purple
flowers. I would not have
realized how rare they are.
I would not have realizedhow sensitive
this wholethis whole area is
. Butjust knowing
a little bitabout this makes it makes
it really special to gethere.
>> So this algific talus
slope is yet anotherexample of
how the uniquegeology here
in theDriftless Region
createsthese natural communitiesthat
are incredibly rare.If we
didn't have the sedimentary
rock layers inthe sequence
, they are, and
if we didn't have 2
millionyears of streams cutting
down through this rock tocreate a
valley and then the glaciers missing
allthis, to leave it here,
wewouldn't have algific
slopes with the bluffs actually breathing air
inthe middle of summer, just
a little over 20°F.[MUSIC]
>> As much as
thesehabitats are unique because
they're cold, the oppositealso
exists.[MUSIC] >> We remembered
a strange observation we made from
the airplane on several of
the steep bluff slopes .There were exposed
patchesof what looked like clear
cut forest, but
contrary tothe hidden algific talus
slopes, this area seemed tobake
in sunlight.[MUSIC] we took to the
groundwith local expert ScottLeddy and
Caitlin O'Connor. It turns out
these clearedpatches are actually not
cleared at all . Instead,they're another
natural yetsomewhat odd
habitat theBluff prairies
, and knownby many locals as
goatprairies, similar to the
algific talus slopes,they're
also home to somevery interesting
wildlife. >> There's
some columbine blooming, but this
is thewild type. This is
theBlack-Eyed Susan. Oh well,the asparagus
. Oftentimeswhen you're
just drivingthrough the Driftless and
you look at the bluff landregions go, prairies
kindof look like bald spots
inan otherwise forested
habitat. But these baldspots
are very
ecologicallyunique. There's a
couple of characteristics that
definethe goat prairies,
and themost important one being
the aspect or the
directionthat these prairies face.
So you're only going tofind goat
prairies on southern and
western slopes on the
bluffs. The second
characteristic is really shallow,
rocky soils.
Inthe summertime , the sun
beats down and it makes itvery
hot and very dry .
Similarly, in the wintertime, the sun is
going to beat down and itmelts
the snow off of thesesteep slopes
, and it makesthis
area exposed to thevery
harsh winterconditions that
we have upin the Driftless Region.
Soanything that thrives here is
is a really tough cookie.They're adapted to
very harsh
conditions. >> Not only are
the bluffprairies home to hundredsof species
of plants, thishot and dry
habitat is also perfect for some other
rare species.
[MUSIC] people would
notassociate rattlesnakes withMinnesota,
but even if they are hard to find
, the steepbluffs are in fact home
toa population of timberrattlesnakes.
This is obviously a
great sign that they are here,
so let's seeif we can actually find
alive one. I'm gonna putthis
one back where I foundit. All right, let's go.
But as they are very wellcamouflaged,
finding onerequires some work.
And asthe sun started to heat
upthe rocks, we got lucky.
>> Rob, do you want to comehere
?>> It's one in that
bush.There was a second
one thatrattled at me.
And it'sright now
out there. Timberrattlesnakes are
generallyfound much further
south,but because of the
uniquehabitat, this somewhatisolated population
stillremains up here.
Timber rattlesnakes are actually
quite docile and notaggressive at
all. Unfortunately, their
have declined a lot ,mostly due to
habitat lossand the general public
fearing these actually gentle snakes.
In the early
1900s. This led to a bountyon
timber rattlesnakes inMinnesota and
Wisconsin, abounty that has nowfortunately
been repealed. [MUSIC]
Now work is focused on
restoring the prairies, as through
the removalof invasive species and
restoring fires to thishabitat.
This provides ideal places for
birds likethe Meadowlarks bobolinksand
Henslow's sparrow. Inaddition to the
amazingflowers and rare
reptiles.[MUSIC] interesting reptilethat
lives up here is thesixth lined
prairieRacerunner. After getting
heated up, they're extremely fast and
very shy. The slightest
movement andthey're gone.
Luckily we managed.
>> We will do
caves.>> If we don't get to
it inthis first .
>> They locate rock
crevices or burrows belowthe
frost line and go intoa state
of hibernation to conserve heat
even more. Several snakes,
evendifferent species , oftenshare winter
dens like thismolting bullsnake
. As theweather
warms up in springand provides
enough heat,the reptiles emerge fromtheir long
winter sleep .
Because of the long wintersup here and
the abundanceof natural dense beneath
the ground, the habitatthat is
favored before allothers by these reptiles
.>> Something like that.>> Okay,
the bluff prairies .
>> Do you know it's allabout habitat
? Don't haveit . And you've got
nothing.It's all about places
likethis. >> For us,
it is anotherexample of how these
bluffsprovide unique opportunities for life
thisfar north that otherwisewould not
have been possible.
>> With the cycles ofglaciers
that came and went .We're actually
seeingfeatures that have
withstood those ice ages
.We're seeing examples ofplaces where
there's whatwe call
refugia, wherethere's species that livedhere during
the colderclimates, and they'veactually hung
on here inlittle pockets
because itis an old landscape, andbecause
it wasn't overrunby ice.
>> But to claim that we arejust
now figuring this out and how special this
areais couldn't be more wrong
. The
truth is that thesebluffs were
the caves and the caverns,
green valleysand cool fresh waterstreams
have been sacred places for humans
andwildlife alike. For a very
long time. [MUSIC]
paintings have been found
in caves, deepunderground,
and rockshelters by the soft
sediment. Bluffs display rock carvings thousands
ofyears old .
>> If you look at theunderside
of a, of a, of a
,of a hawk or an eagle orother
birds of prey, if you've ever seen the
waythat they fan out, perhapsthat's what
you have here. As for the rock
art, it's spectacular. Rock
art. Wehave both rock art
that'sbeen done with pigments, as
well as rock art that'sincised into
the rock itself. So we
have different ways we have
these.
>> Hi. Hi, I'm
JamesSteinbach. I'm a volunteerhere at
PBS Wisconsin, andTim is here with me
. Youremember from the last timearound. And we also hav
ethis . We have this? Yeah
,we have this. You have this.I don't
have this. Talkabout this.>> Well,
we were thrilledthat .>> Well, first of
all, whatis it ?>> Well, it's a
regionalEmmy Award. Okay, there.>> We
go. And we were thrilled that Decoding the
Driftless won a regional Emmy Award. So, you
know,people must have liked thefilm. So
that's that's verygratifying as a filmmaker
,when people like the filmand you
get awards. Sowe've had the film in
a lotof different film festivals.It's
been on PBS and we've.>>
And you said in the lastconversation, 40
over 40 stations.
states, over 40 states.
lot of stations.>> It's been broadcastliterally
hundreds of times around the country
. Yeah,and not just
in Wisconsin.Do they use it to
raisemoney even? I think I heard
in New York State they wereusing Decoding
theDriftless as part of a PBS
pledge drive. f raisingmoney
, this is a challengebreak.
Where where donorsto
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>> Hi, I'm Natalie,
a staff member here at
PBSWisconsin. Not all of
uscan venture into
thesecaves or go out on
theledge like what we see
inthis, in this documentary.
So for me , I'm very glad
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. And I don'thave to do it myself
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I neglected to saythat Tim
Tim Jacobsen isone of
the producers of this film, which
is to me, producers are
underrated. Iwas a producer for a
longtime, so I can say thatit's
really important. It'sa really critical job.They're
the folks who are responsible for making sure
the idea, the concept really comes together
. Theydon't do all the work. They
have people who do the work,but it's
very importantwhat they do.>> We didn't
really havepeople .>> Well, you
had a coupleof folks.>> We had
a few folks.>> Now, one of the
thingsthat's fascinating about this film is and
I wouldnever do this being
underground, not something m
going to do when youstart talking about
, no,I'm not doing that. But howwas
that?>> Well , I got to go
into anumber of caves for
makingDecoding the Driftless , andeach
one was very different .And there were
some timeswhen it was rather scary
.There was one of the caveshad
a very narrow passage .They called the
birth canalfor good reason. It
was youhad to wiggle your bodythrough
it. And I had alittle
bit ofclaustrophobia doing
that.>> I remember that I wouldhave
had more than a littlebit. I would
have not haveeven gone into that cave
. Iknow enough, and I'm notdoing that
. But you didcall us. He had a
challenge.Call us during thischallenge. Break one (800)2
36. Excuse me.
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this film. One ofthe other things
I love alot about this film, but
one of the things I loveabout it
is that you take us literally from
d to what we can
see to above in the air andyour
pilot, and we showthat in the
film. So what's the difference for
you?What's the discovery whenyou're
from thatperspective to what you
seewhen you're just me
walkingaround? Because I'm notgoing to be
in the cave ?>> Well,
flying over the Driftless Region is
reallyspectacular. I mean , it'sjust such
a beautifullandscape. It's so rugged
.And that aerial
view isjust you just can't
beatthat. But it's more thanjust
the beauty that you get from the airplane. You
really do get a different
sense of the ecology of
theregion. It
it kind of shrinks distances, you
know,when you can look out yourone
side of the plane andsee a place
like RichlandCenter and look out the
other side of the plane andmaybe
see over towardPrairie du Chien, and
yousee that these placesaren't so
far apart, andyou can see the different
habitats, the different terrains, and you
understand the connectedness of the
landscape. It's reallyhelpful and
valuable.>> And you know, that
loveof this comes through inthe film
. Sometimes people make films that are
, Idon't want to say cold anddistant
, but this film is not. You are right
in itwith people , and you cantell
that you guys really care about the subject
,about the place. In addition to this film
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.
>> A thousand years ago,
ifyou were on this site
,there would have been manyfewer
trees and there wouldhave literally
beenhundreds of mounds visible.
You would have probablyseen
a large central village site,
perhaps somesatellite village sites,
smoke rising from campfires
and the human activities
going on. That would havebeen part of
daily life,and it would have
beenquite an incredible
sightto see .
>> We know the earliest
people in this area
came tothis resource rich
part ofthe world. So this was a
habitation site for the
earliest Americans. Think
about how you would moveabout
the landscape without vehicles or
horses or anyother way to
get around.You'd be using
thecorridors of the water
.Being nomadic, they'relooking for ways
that theycan get to places
wherethere's rich game and rich
land in the fall
andprotected areas in thewinter
. So a lot of theserugged
blufflands andDriftless Area
providedboth of those things in
close proximity.
>> The mound buildingcultures lived
around athousand years ago.
Thepurpose and shape of themounds varied. Some were
built as burial mounds,
andothers were made fordifferent ceremonial and
spiritual purposes usinglidar technology,
atechnique of scanning the
ground with laser, we nowknow that
there are manymore effigy mounds than
anyone ever knew. In fact,there are
more of them here than anywhere else in
theworld. And because of that,
the Effigy Mounds National Monument was established
here in 1949.[MUSIC]
>> You have to recognize building mounds is
notan easy task. You have
buffalo, scapula, hoes
andreed baskets ,
and it takesa lot of calories
andenergy to build a mound
. Soyou have to have a
charismatic enough leaderthat
says, we're going to build a mound today
, andthen you have to have thebuy
in from the public thatsays, or your
people, hey,okay, we'll build a mound
.Were they. Taking the dirt from
here and just putting itthere, or were
theybringing it from down inthe river
valley?>> In some cases, theywould
actually digsubsurface into the shape
they were seeking toidentify,
and they wouldlayer special
soils, insome cases brought
fromsome distances and
in somecases, perhaps clean,
sandysoils from springs.
Youknow, you get that verysugar
sand look. And insome cases
they wouldscrape soil up from
aroundthe mounds. And in othercases
they may indeed totethem with
baskets from the nearby wetland or
wherever. And then
the engineering acumen to
say a thousand years after they've been
t, they're still hereon the landscape
, tellingus a story that we want
toknow more about , butthey're still
here as partof their cultural landscape
.And then, of course
, theknowledge of the skies, the
sun, the stars and the moonto have
alignments wherethose alignments do occur.
It's really incredible
.>> That's incredible .[MUSIC]
showing this allto me.>> You bet
.[MUSIC] effigy mounds areoften
made in shapes of symbolized animals.
Whythere's such a highconcentration
of them here is still not
fullyunderstood, but maybe notso surprising
. The complex
topography and vegetation contain a range
of habitatsthat in turn
support a rich diversity of life
. But thebig question is still how
it is possible that thisarea got
left untouched by the glaciers, allowing
thiscomplex topography toremain
when everythingaround it got leveled
. >> Yeah,
this is the this is the place
. Yeah, this is a nice spot.
is Devil's Lake ,one of only
two lakes inthe Driftless and a body
ofwater created because ofthe
advancing glaciers. Italso marks
the eastern edgeof the Driftless Region
.>> And so right here, this
is just a really quirky,
fortuitous place that theice
came far enough that ifyou look off
here, we can see the edge of
theDriftless Area. There wecan see
the edge of the Driftless Area there.
Andthen it extends behind usto the
west, all the way down to the Mississippi
River and beyond. I thought about this
somany times that the theglaciers
missed this partof North
America.>> It is unique, andthere's
differentexplanations for why the
ice stopped in differentareas. Off to the
west, the ice was flowing
down out ofthe the Canadian Rockies,
and it flowed to differentdistances
over differentice ages . And it's
partly afunction of how far the
icewas able to flow with thesupply
of ice. And partly it was probably
steered bythe the way the
bedrockoutcrops in in Iowa andMinnesota
, if you go to the
north of us, the ice wastrying
to flow across the Lake Superior Lowland,
is a tremendouslydeep hole in the ground
.And so that was in itselfjust
a natural impedimentto ice coming down towards
the Driftless Area from thenorth. And
then off to the east of us, there's
theGreen Bay lowland and theLake Michigan
Lowland,which are troughs that areoriented north
south andkind of steered the ice
straight to the south , offto the east
of us. And inaddition, the bedrock in
central Wisconsin is bowed up into an arch
thatdeflected the ice aroundthe Driftless
Area. Andfarther north, the hard,
rough, crystalline rock wasa further impediment
tostopping the ice fromflowing any
farther south. Cause show that there
were fluctuations that
indicatethere were as much as a
couple dozen ice ages overthe last 2.5
million years.So , yeah, when we
talkabout the Ice age, we'rethinking of
the last one. [MUSIC]
a coupledozen that preceded it, andall
of them missed the area.[MUSIC] >> There
are a couple of important results from this
.We have already said thatthe Driftless exists
because it wasn't covered by glacial ice
, but it'snot exactly right
to sayglaciers left the area
untouched. Simply put, theDriftless Region
is notwhat it is, only because
itgot spared by the glaciers,but also because the
re were glaciers nearby
at thecenter of
the Driftless, like a mighty
arterythrough the region ,connecting the veins
ofwater that carves throughthe
bluff landscape is themighty Mississippi
River.[MUSIC] Just
like the rest of theland, this
was once flat ground composed of
layersof ancient marine sediment.[MUSIC]
The huge amount ofmeltwater
coming fromnearby glaciers is what
started the formation ofthis impressive
rivervalley. Rob and
I have had a chance to see
it fromabove several times, and
every time it's just asamazing.
Just the thought that
wateralone has carved all this
out is somewhat mindblowing.
The Mississippi
River was important alreadyto early
settlers using thewaters to get around,
andit's just as important tothe
people of the Driftless today and the rest
of thecountry too , for thatmatter, as
it is one of thelargest river systems
inthe world, connecting thenorth of the
US with theGulf of Mexico.
250 milesof the
upper Mississippiruns through the Driftless
Area. But there's also
beentimes in history when the
river was a lot deeper.
Geologists have measured that the actual bottom
ofthe river lies another
300ft deeper than thebottom of the
river. Today. >> When the
glaciers aremelting and carryingsediment
, that sediment ended up in
this rivervalley , and it actually
filled it up to a levelmuch higher
than it isright now with glacial
outwash sediment. >> The same
glacial waterthat carved
it out alsorefilled it with massiveamounts of
sediment thatcame with the water.
Thehuge amount of glacial
sediment also resulted inmaking the
Upper Mississippi unique
in someother, rather odd ways.
[MUSIC] we're at
Lake Pepinright now. It's actually
areally unique feature
because it's the widestpart of the
MississippiRiver, and it's all natural.
The lakes are very rare inthis area
. Well, here we have a natural
riverinelake. It's been inexistence
since since the glaciers were
close by here a
little over 10,000 yearsago. And
we have this natural system where the
Chippewa River is dammingthe Mississippi
River,creating Lake Pepin.
Andit's a pretty rare, rare
and interesting phenomenon .>> We can
see huge amountsof glacial
sediments andsand that are still
partially damming up theMississippi today.
And funfact if none of this
hadhappened, this at risk, we
wouldn't have water skiing today.
>> It says Lake City,
the birthplace of
water skiing.
Well, we couldn't reallypass that up
. So we got toget out on
the river. [MUSIC]
>> Can you imagine? Who
would have guessed we wouldhave the
last ice age to thank for all this
? Nowthere's a fun fact to share
dinner tonight. Okay,
so now let's get back
to themain story .
>> Okay. Everybody
in.[MUSIC] Well,
hopefully we can seesome
cool things whilewe're out here. You can
point out your favorite bits.
I'm excited to just be outhere
and see some of thediversity of habitats
. >> Look at
these beautifullittle beauties.
[MUSIC] >> People are
alreadysetting up for the weekend.Starting to
use the beaches.The Mississippi is a
wetland of international importance. We call Ramsar
Wetland. So that meansglobally
it's beenrecognized as being that
important. So yep.>>
So we're in a NationalWildlife Refuge right
now.Yeah. Okay. So
what doesthat mean for the river
?>> Yeah. What that means
isprotection for conservation.So
refuges are managed for
wildlife first. We also do
have recreation. You knowpeople can come
and fishand hunt . But predominantly
most of what we're doingout here is managing it for
wildlife. >> That
also involvesinforming the public about
the sensitive animals inthe reserve,
like the manyspecies of turtles thatcome
and nest on the sandybeaches.
>> Come on up here
, quick.Oh! It's hot. Oh
. >> That's
hot. >> Oh.
>> You can see all of the
eggs, though, right here.They've been predated.
Eaten by something.
What doyou think ate these things
?Snakes or
raccoons? The onething you
you can actuallysee right at the moment
though, is you can see thedug
out nest.
And then occasionally you
can seethe slide marks of the
turtles coming back down .
Wow. Unfortunate. >> But
the main attractionwhen it
comes to viewingwildlife here must be
thebirds. [MUSIC]
>> It's indigo bunting islowest
.>> Oh my goodness . Yeah.>> Look
at that. We're so close.
>> I've never been thatclose to to
a falcon before .>> This is, for
example,the summer destination forover 100
species ofmigratory neotropical
songbirds like the chestnutsided warbler
, northern parula and
American goldfinches.
Winters are spent furthersouth, but in
the summerthey come up here to nest
and breed. In addition, the
Mississippi River is also amajor flyway
for migratory birds. That
means the river functions as a
guidance forthe aerial highway used bymillions
of birds on their way between summer
nestinggrounds in northern Canada
and the southern parts offlyway, where
they spendwinter. In fact, more than
320 bird species have been
recorded using the Mississippi Flyway
eachyear. It is now
mid-June,which means right inbetween
migration times. [MUSIC]
let's fast forward sixmonths.
[MUSIC] that over 40% of
the total population of rfowl in the
US passedthrough this migratoryflyway
.[MUSIC] migration,
hundreds of thousands oftundra
swans and other waterfowl can be
seenfeeding and resting in thepools
of the reserve , andthe abundance
of food here makes it a
given stopover. [MUSIC]
d videographer, this is
something you kind of dreamabout. You're surrounded by
this environment, thecolors
of the bluffs , thewhite swans
, the contrastof water
. [MUSIC]
is why I became a wildlife filmmaker
andphotographer. [MUSIC]
>> The Driftless Area
is anextremely unique area,
andbird watchers have taken
note from all over thecountry and even
the world. [MUSIC]
to keepa life list, where theykeep
track of how many different species they've
en , kind of checking
offeach species. And theDriftless
Area is a greatplace for bird
watchers tocome to see a variety of
species in winter, spring
,summer and fall.
>> I realize it may look
like we're painting a picture of a wildlife
refuge for freed fromproblems, but the
realityis not that easy.[MUSIC]
it's not without help .
For example, programs likethe Driftless Area
TroutUnlimited Restoration Effort are
working torestore Coldwater Springsdamaged
by erosion. >> Where we
can do restoration, we can
really restore
them to something that is really
rare in theworld .>> Bluff prairies
have beendisappearing due to lack ofwildfires
and theintroduction of invasivespecies through
prescribedburns and the removal
ofnon-native vegetation.Groups like
the prairie enthusiasts have managed
torestore and protect a lotof
this rare habitat,allowing some
of the unique biodiversity to remain, and
even private landowners
aresigning up to protect theirland from
furtherdevelopment. >> We feel strongly
that wewant to be good stewards of
the land, and there'sfeatures on
this land ranging from rock
artthat's up to 2000
years oldto virgin, you know, redoak forests
. And wewouldn't ever
want to seethat developed. So we want
to protect it. Unique habitats areoften
also sensitive to change, whether it
bechanging climates, new
developments or things wedo that affect
theenvironment. Even if ourinitial
intentions weregood . The story
of theperegrine falcon is
oneexample. These top of thefood
chain predators are the fastest animals
on theplanet , nesting on the
steep bluff sides .Peregrine falcons have
hada great symbolic importanceto
the driftless for thousands of years
, butrecently almost disappearedcompletely.
>> The greatestpotentiality
of DDT lies indispersal
from plains.>> The use of the
pesticideDDT that was developed in
the 1940s to help fight
thespread of diseases likemalaria and typhus
, almost caused them,
and otherraptors like the bald
eagleto go extinct from theAmerican
continent, and the Driftless was no
exception. The
organization RaptorResource Project wasfounded
in 1988 by BobAnderson,
who successfully managed to breed
falconsand return them to the wildby
releasing them on the cliffs.
Artificial nest boxes werealso put up
along the upperMississippi bluffs, andtoday
the peregrine falcons are back
in numbers wherethey are no longerconsidered
criticallyendangered. [MUSIC]
continued work toprotect and monitor themand
their habitat is stillcrucial.
Which brings usback to where this storystarted.
To the steepcliffs of
the driftlessbluffs .>> Here.
>> So we're on a big
soybean field up on the
topof this bluff . But over
there is a big cliff
. Itoverlooks the MississippiRiver.
And we think thatover there,
maybe the nestof a peregrine falcon
. Now,whether or not this oneactually
has chicks in it has yet to be
discovered.We have all of our climbing
gear and you'll find out.
>> I'm going down.>> I'm
going down.>> Here we go.
>> Climbing the topside
over four live
babies.[MUSIC] >> That is
good news.>> But I couldn't beli eveit
. When she flew into thatpothole, I
was like, oh my God, I think I'm
seeingthings. But you know, shewent in
.>> Perfect location. [MUSIC]
>> To my ears
. >> There are
peregrinefalcons right
in that nest .How cool is
that? >> Today is an
absolute success. On the
threebluffs, we visited, a total
of seven healthy FalconEyasses were
found andtagged. >> The next
meal band is K over 37.
>> Yeah. That's right.
>> With with the colormarker the way
it is andthe big letters, you know
like K over 42 for example.Yeah, that's more
readilyvisible in a telescope. I
gotcha. that got usextra
excited was that theISS we found
were innatural nest sites on therock. So this is
what'sreally cool. There'sactually a
nest box mountedon
the rock face just maybe
40 yards down that way. But
this is what they've chosen,this natural
crevice righton the rock.>> They've
never used thishole before. And i t's
abeautiful ivory. [MUSIC]
it's dry. [MUSIC]
of the elements .It's predator
free. Can't get here.
It's just it'sone of
the best areas I've seen in a long
time.[MUSIC] You know, this
is agreat story to.>> Let people
know.>> I think it's really.>> Needed
because. We we. >> See that they're
off theendangered species list.
You know, people aremonitoring them
. Theyappear to be healthy. We'vegot
them in urban areas .We've got them
on naturalcavities and things likethat. And so
this really isthe ultimate
goal was toget back to Falcons
on onthe bluffs. And
we are. So
it's such a great feelingtoday
to have our oursecond site that
we're outhere today , that we'veactually
found four youngfalcons
there in a reallynice little
pothole. It'sit's really
what we werelooking for.>> Oh
man. >> He's
so calm.>> He is very calm
. >> That
was freakingawesome.
>> This is a success
storythat really touched us.[MUSIC]
maybe more importantly,it is
a reminder that we shouldn't take what we
havefor granted. [MUSIC]
well asother birds of prey, werealmost
gone, and seeing falcons up
close in theirnatural habitat issomething I
was dreaming ofas a kid.
Now Rob and Ihave
brought our kids here to the Driftless.
We wantour growing families to see
what it means to love aland as
special as this. I want my kids to
get toexperience the things Idreamt of
when I wasgrowing up.[MUSIC]
small places like this,
ecosystems are very e
to change. [MUSIC]
Region mayhave survived manychallenges in
the past, butthat is
no promise. It can do it every time
. It is upto us
to make sure these stories live on for
future generations.
r our kids,
it shouldn'tonly be something they just
learn about from a book orfrom watching
a movie, butto set feet on the
land andfloat the waters, see the
birds migrate, travel
backin time, and walk in the
footsteps of early ,
or find secretworlds that no one knew
existed, and to continue topass
on the dreams to theirchildren.
But making sure that can
happen is up to us.
>> Do you want to
do thatwith a
credit or debit?>> Hi, I'm James.
I'm JamesSteinbach. I'm a volunteerhere
at PBS Wisconsin, andwe're going to
be rightback to to the show
. We'regoing right back to theshow, aren't
we? Is theshow over? It's not over
.No, the show goes on. Italways
goes on. But I'm here with Tim
Jacobson, whois one of the producers of
the show. And one of thethings we
were talkingabout was that, you know,if
you go to a state park,you can
see a lot of it. Ifyou go
to the Driftless, you cannot see it
all. It'stoo big and you need to seein so many
perspectives, wetalked about from the airand
from underneath. So how do you take it
in? I mean,that's what's great aboutthis
film. You can watch this film.
. You solved this foryou.
And that's that's agreat
point. I mean , theDriftless Area
is about 24,000mi'!S. So it's
it's a huge, huge area
in thatsense. And so you
can't seeit all not easily
orcertainly over a lifetime.
But this film gives you achance
in one hour to toget a perspective
on a lotof the area.>> Which
is such animportant thing about PBS.
It gives you a chance tosee things
you wouldn'totherwise be able to do
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>> Hi, I'm Natalie,
a staffmember here at
PBSWisconsin, and there is
somuch in this film
to take in the beautiful
views, the information, the
amazing shots.
I know I want towatch it
again, and you'll probably want to watch
itagain too . And tonight we
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A donation of $12 a month,
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A gift of $25 a
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>> Hi, I'm Eric Greiling,
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isfacing some seriouschallenges.
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1-800-236-3636. >> That's
another, I think
fascinating thing you talkabout this in
the film is people have
lived in theDriftless Area for a
longtime. It's true . All overWisconsin.
People have beenhere a long time . And howdoes
that come out? How do
you see that in theDriftless Area?
Well, one of the mostremarkable things about
theDriftless is all of the
archeological evidence been left behind by
people who lived here avery long
time ago. We hadthe mound building
, peoplewho built
effigy mounds, hundreds and hundreds
ofmounds across the landscape,maybe thousands
of mounds, all sorts of
shapes andsizes . I mean,
birdeffigies and bears.
And there's
even a man mound ortwo
in the Driftless. There's this wonderful
manmound that ,
you know, it'sjust
incredible to see these things that have
beenthere for maybe a thousandyears. There's
rock art in deep caves. There's
paintings, there's carvings in the rock
from so longago , and most
people wouldnever get a chance to
seemost of that .>> It's just
anotherexample of one after
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Call us at 1-800-236-3636.
>> Thank you so much
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with your gift . Wedo have
wonderful ways to say thank you
. A gift of$12
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>> You know, I loved
in inthat last bit we
werelooking at how you actually
you had fun. You went waterskiing.
It was great. I thought.
me personally.>> Okay . But you did go
. Inever got to do that. WhenI
was out on shoes . Nobodyever let me
go water skiing.So what are you going
to do?But another thing aboutthis is
you found some strange. There were
strangethings. There was always.So what
were some of the strange things?
. You know, so when I was a kid
, I was born up in northern Wisconsin in
the Northwoods. And when Iwas 12, we
moved into theDriftless Area. And I was
just taken aback by howdifferent the
terrain was.The animals , the plants,
it's so different . And oneof
the things that was moststriking to me
is there'sprickly pear cactus growingon the bluff prair
ies andthe sand prairies and the
Driftless Area. And I'mlike, you know
, to go from northern Wisconsin to
southwest Wisconsin to suddenly discover cactus
and rattlesnakes.>> And
you're not in Turkey .Vultures in Wisconsin.
>> Exactly. It felt likethe desert
southwest, andnot nearly as much snow
wasup north either . So thosewere
some really striking things to me as
a 12 yearold . But then in addition
to that, there's these coolhabitats like the
algifictalus slope that people getto explore through
the film, things that most people
would never see in theirentire lifetime.
>> You know? So this is my
last chance to talk to you.It's been
a pleasure andit's been such a pleasure
.Thank you. It's been such apleasure
to see thisbeautiful film. Thank youfor
making it. And thank you for bringing it
to PBSWisconsin and to people all
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you forpledging .
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