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AMERICA OUTDOORS with BARATUNDE THURSTON returns with a brand-new season as the best-selling writer, podcaster and comedian travels the country to uncover our complex relationship with the outdoors. From biologists saving snapping turtles to BIPOC mountain bikers, Baratunde meets a fascinating cast of characters with one thing in common: a passion for being outside.

Discover the science behind this summer’s historic and devasting floods in Vermont.
Discover how bacteria could be the key to stopping mosquito-borne illnesses.
What happens when you remove dams that changed the Klamath River a hundred years ago?
Major support is provided by Anne Ray Foundation, a Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy and the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Support is also provided by John and Ruth Huss, Susan and Thomas McCarthy, Linda Willette and Jan Willette, and Mildred McLean and Daniel Waugh.
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In a state with long and icy winters, Mainers embrace the cold.
Discover the healing power of nature in Utah.
Discover Oregon’s wild landscapes and how they shape its outdoor culture.
Baratunde explores how New Mexico’s deep history shapes people’s outdoor lives.
Arkansas is on a mission to earn recognition as a wild mecca.
Baratunde journeys down one of the last wild rivers in America, the Suwannee.
Baratunde travels to northern Minnesota to find out what the wild means to Americans today
On the North Carolina coast, Baratunde discovers how history shapes the outdoors.
In Appalachia, Baratunde meets the people changing how we see and interact with nature.
Baratunde explores his adopted hometown of LA to connect with the outdoors in a big city.
Extras
Forests are in trouble, but could ancient wisdom be the answer to saving our trees?
Baratunde takes an icy plunge in the winter ocean with Ice Mermaids.
Baratunde learns about how the brain changes in outdoors spaces.
Sand may seem unremarkable, but the modern world is built on it and we’re running out.
Baratunde talks to Mick Swagger of Indigenous Roller Derby.
Baratunde goes rafting down the Rio Grande with Louie Hena.
Explore one small town’s mission to save the night sky and help migrating birds.
Baratunde learns about the history of Elaine, Arkansas on the Delta Heritage Trail.
Baratunde goes night herping with biologist Mario Aldecoa along the Suwannee River.
AMERICA OUTDOORS with BARATUNDE THURSTON returns to explore our passion for the outdoors.
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Baratunde meets a falconer who believes that humans and animals can coexist together.
Baratunde meets a rock climber who is working to diversify the sport.
Baratunde meets a plant parent who is bringing awareness to the issue of plant poaching.
Baratunde meets a Florida fossil hunter and learns how this hobby contributes to science.
Baratunde meets a female suburban bowhunter to discuss how the sport is changing.
Baratunde meets a surfer scientist in Hawaii who is trying to protect the corals reefs.
America Outdoors: Understory explores the unexpected places and ways we encounter nature.
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