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Sierra Nevada and the Making of California

Season 3 Episode 304 | 26m 46s

The Sierra Nevada is our most important mountain range. It influences much of California’s weather and produces most if its water. It was once the greatest barrier to transcontinental transportation and communication. It is a symbol of earthquakes, which created it. Tectonic geologist Eldridge Moores helps host David Yetman decipher the mysteries of the range’s origins and importance.

Aired: 05/10/22
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
The natural monuments that define the territories of native peoples in New Mexico.
Explore the Four Corners portion of the Colorado Plateau.
Conservation groups work for the ideal habitat for jaguars, mountain lions and ocelots
The falling water levels of Lake Powell reveal fragments of ancient peoples.
Protecting whales and cultivating the friendship between people and the gentle giants.
Exploring a once booming tourist mecca that is now a nearly dead body of water.
Understanding Columbus and the influence and destruction heaped on the Americas.
Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
Exploring the resistance and reception of Europeans to the Americas.
Explore how southwestern U.S. native peoples established the Colorado Plateau.
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Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
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