A Long Hard Struggle / PBS.

[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2013]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2018.

©2013

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Follow nature photographer Michael Forsberg as he examines the remaining "wildness" in the Great Plains of North America. Featuring stunning imagery, the program is based on Forsberg's book of the same name. Less than 200 years ago, the Great Plains was one of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth, stretching nearly a million square miles down the heart of the continent. The prairie was a place of constant motion, shaped by an unforgiving cycle of the seasons. Huge numbers of bison, elk, pronghorn, deer, prairie dogs, prairie wolves and even grizzlies were common. There were massive migrations of birds and fish. But as America grew, and the land was settled and tamed, the wildness began disappearing.

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May 20, 2019

9 - 12, Academic/AP

Part 1: A Long Hard Struggle (5:06); Water and Migration Patterns (3:16); North Dakota: The Missouri Cocteau (6:38); Texas: The Llano Estacado (5:25); New Mexico: The Weaver Ranch (7:33); Kansas: The Flint Hills (8:20); Oklahoma: Near Woodward (3:47); Wyoming: Cat Creek E-Z Ranch (6:24); North Dakota: Buffalo Gap National Grassland (7:36); Credits: A Long Hard Struggle (1:00);

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