America's National Monuments: The Geologic West

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America's National Monuments: The Geologic West

Host Jordan Murphy takes viewers on a journey to eleven spectacular national monuments throughout America’s Pacific Northwest. The Geologic West is a priceless voyage from the dawn of history to the present. Explore prehistoric America and its treasure trove of fossils in Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. Unearth riches that show the fiery geologic past of the Pacific Northwest. See human history unfold from the California Native American Wars, to the conservation movement of the late 19th century, to the heartbreak of Japanese American internment during WWII, to the amazing taming of the Snake River in Idaho for agriculture. Each monument is presented in three chapters: virtual tour, nature and science, and history and culture.

Sloped hills leading to a body of water. Caption: from which the Hagerman fossils have been excavated.

Map of the northwest United States showing John Day Fossil Beds in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Clarno Unit, Sheep Rock Unit, and Painted Hills Unit are in Oregon. Caption: preserve a continuous 40-million-year fossil record

Rolling hills lead into a wide valley. Caption: Known as Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument

Forested hillside with a sign "Welcome to Pinnacles National Monument National Park Service Department of the Interior" Caption: is a place of great surprises.

Narrow paved path spiraling to the top of a rocky conical structure. Caption: a great fissure opened up in Central Idaho

A river with brush lining the banks winds down from a mountain through evergreen trees. Caption: Here there is no fancy visitor center.

Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.

Wooden fence lining a path through a forest. Black and white photo of a man overlaid. Caption: bridges that the great John Muir once stood on.

Senior man with white hair and glasses crosses arms and parts lips in mid-speech. Caption. That people have of the place.

Domed, dripping rock structures line the wall of a cave. Caption: but only one that is a marble cave.

Lighthouse with outbuilding and trees as seen through dense fog. Caption: The old lighthouse shimmers in and out of view--