New Teachers,
If you are interested in seeing a museum-produced video series on biodiversity on your local PBS station the time to act is now. The satellite feed for this series is on April 5th and your station must decide to pick it up by then or they'll miss their chance. This series,"Treasuring Our Natural Heritage" is funded by the National Science Foundation and features many prominent scientists like Peter Raven of the Missouri Botanical Garden describing our current scientific understanding of biodiversity. These scientists
are joined by Merlin Olsen, the narrator, and many farmers, ranchers, and other citizens talking about the challenges and value of working to conserve our natural heritage.
Many stations already plan to broadcast the series. Click here to see if your local station is already planning to air the series. If the air dates are listed sit back and enjoy.
[url]http://www.NaturalHeritageCenter.org/broadcast_times.htm[/url]

If your channel is not listed or air dates are "to be announced" then please call your local station for more information. You can get their phone number using the 'station finder' on this site: [url]http://www.pbs.org/[/url]

To find out more about this video series click here:
[url]http://www.NaturalHeritageCenter.org/television_info.html[/url]

If you know others in your area who would like to see this series on biodiversity, please pass this information on to them.

Happy viewing!

Stefan Sommer
Natural Heritage Center
Idaho Museum of Natural History
Idaho State University
Campus Box 8044
Pocatello, Idaho 83209

(208) 282-5841
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