Yeah. There you go.
>> You still got hair?
Yeah.>> You have hair?>> Yeah.
T hat's right.
Gotsome? Yeah. I just
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it'salmost fresh .
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me,but you can't say it toMalcolm
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like. >> You
know, I haven't seenhim in
, like, four months .>> Really?
Yeah.>> I guess I haven't either.Yeah
. I hope he's gotten ahaircut.
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Last night
and I just gotit off
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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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>> 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
o n 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 a
rea 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 t
heDriftless. >> 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,
f orinstance, 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.
yerswere 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 t
he 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
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arenot going to find itanyplace else
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>> 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 receiveeither
a 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 hat that is
theright color for theDriftless Area
, along withthis wonderful print thatshows
you the map. Soplease call
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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,
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. We want totake you there withprograms
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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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wonderful. Excuse
medecoding the DriftlessReader's
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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
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theway we can say thank youwhen you support pro
graming like this program
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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
u pper 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 callus
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For a gift of
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call us at 1-800-236-3636.
>> To this date,
no naturalsurface e
ntrance 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. T
hese 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 u
pmaterials and transporting that. You ultimately
gofrom having this
relatively flat sedimentary
r ock 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 PBS Wisconsin have
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your contribution,dollar for dollar. So
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that becomes $200 toPBS Wisconsin
. This is thetime
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1-800-236-3636. >> 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 that this can be
broughtinto my home . And I don'thave
t o do it myself
. I canjust sit back and watch it
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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
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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
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it. And I had alittle
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. Iknow enough, and I'm notdoing that
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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
i n 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 t
heregion. It
it kind of shrinks distances, you
know,when you can look out yourone
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like RichlandCenter and look out the
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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
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, Idon't want to say cold anddistant
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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 t
hat 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
t his 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
s eeingthings. 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 . Ilove
that, so call us at
1-800-236-3636. >> 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 have some wonderful
giftsthat we'd love to sharewith you
with your donation. A donation of
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or you'll receive this
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of amazing experts
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Lo. It's
something that is justa wonderful
addition to anyone's collection,
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ibrary collection in their house.
A gift of $25 a
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or Blu ray .The
book, this Wonderful
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while you're hikingin the Driftless Area,
andalso this wonderful printthat shows
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isfacing some seriouschallenges.
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>> 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 another, of another
of discoveries that you
allreveal to us in this
greatprogram. Call us at
1-800-236-3636. >> Thank
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. A gift of$12
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or Blu ray orthis
wonderful reader bookthat
is a great addition
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. You can enjoy expertsfrom famous
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and you will also receive this
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amazingbecause it shows all of
thecounties that Tim talksabout in
Decoding theDriftless, and it spells
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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
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