Lesson 1201: Ketchikan and Alaska’s Panhandle Forests and Sea Alaska’s Panhandle preserves vast tracts of the planet’s dwindling temperate rain forests. Ketchikan, the largest town in the panhandle, lies...
Lesson 1202: The Lacandons of Chiapas: Guardians of the Ancient Mayas Chiapas is Mexico’s southeasternmost state, bordering on Guatemala. A century ago, it was covered mostly with tropical rainforest in the...
1203 – Brazilian Agriculture: From Industrial Megafarms to Intimate Minifarms Central Brazil is home to the world’s largest farms, industrial agricultural landscapes with individual farms covering thousands of square miles....
Lesson 1204 – Oaxaca’s People of the Sea and the Seaside In recent decades, tourists have begun flocking to the Pacific coast of Oaxaca. Centuries earlier, indigenous communities flourished there, exploiting...
1205 – The Cascade Mountains of Washington: Gifts of the Volcanoes The Cascades, a chain of mountains extending from northern Canada well in British Columbia in Canada, are formed from a...
1206 – Oaxaca’s Indigenous Guardians of the High Forests Much of the Mexican state of Oaxaca lies in forested mountains, some reaching over 12,000 feet in elevation. Indigenous communities...
Lesson 1207 – The Estrada Real–Brazil’s Highway of Gold For nearly two centuries Portuguese explorers, settlers, and prospectors combed the Brazilian countryside in vain, searching for deposits of gold....
Lesson 1208- Brazil’s Salvador: Preserver of African-Brazilian Patrimony For nearly three centuries, slaves were imported into Brazil by the millions. The largest port of entry was the city...
Lesson 1209 – California’s Coastal Redwoods: Preserving the World’s Tallest Trees and their Homelands California is home to the world’s oldest, its largest, and its tallest trees. From the ancient bristlecone pines to giant...
1210 – Basin And Range: The Making of the West The Basin and Range Province defines the landscape of the interior western U.S. from southern Oregon to northwest Mexico, from...
