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AMERICA’S WILDEST PLACES DVD AVAILABLE
by
Steve McCadams
www.stevemccadams.com
December 3rd, 2004
Looking for a unique Christmas gift for that someone who has
everything?
The National Wildlife Refuge System may have just marked its 100th
anniversary, but the sights and sounds of the world's largest system of
public lands for wildlife are as fresh as today's latest technology with
the release of the first DVD "armchair" tour of our Nation's refuges.
"America's Wildest Places" presents nearly two hours from eight of
the most stunning refuges in the refuge system, complemented by narration
and musical scores, in handy DVD format.
In the new "Wildest Places" collection, you'll fly among the stately
white whooping cranes of Aransas and Matagorda Island national wildlife
refuges in Texas. You'll track the stealthy endangered red wolf in the
gloomy backwaters of North Carolina's Pocosin Lakes national wildlife
refuge. You'll tumble alongside rollicking Alaska brown bears at Kenai
National Wildlife Refuge. Your video tour continues at five other of
America's finest windows on wildlife? Caribbean Islands refuge, Eufaula in
the marsh country of Alabama and Georgia, Horicon's duck and goose haven
in Wisconsin; the bottomland woods of Muscatatuck refuge in Indiana; and
the
John Heinz/Tinicum urban oasis with the Philadelphia skyline as wildlife's
backdrop.
"'America's Wildest Places' commemorates the centennial celebration
of President Theodore Roosevelt's designation of Florida's Pelican Island
as the nation's first refuge," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director
Steve Williams said. "Here, in this first volume in what we hope will
become an occasional series of video tours of the National Wildlife Refuge
System, we've packed more color, action, and scenic beauty than you'll
find in any other commercially-available wildlife video for the money."
"America's Wildest Places" incorporates the work of the Fish and
Wildlife Service's professional team of videographers, who travel the
refuge system from Alaska to Puerto Rico in search of the Nation's most
spectacular outdoor scenery and unusual wildlife projects including
restoration of the Atlantic puffin on fog-shrouded Maine islands far out
into the Atlantic to restoration and colorful Hawaiian forest birds in
Hawaii.
"The majesty of America's refuges is the palette from which our
photographers paint, and we want to showcase their outstanding work, at
the lowest possible cost, before the American public, who make our efforts
possible," says Steve Hillebrand, production director for the Service's
video unit, who conceived "America's Wildest Places" and selected the
first eight refuges to highlight in the first volume of the new DVD
series.
Volume 1 incorporates presentations on each of eight refuges that were
previously issued individually in traditional VHS video format, but never
before available to the public in DVD compilation.
"America's Wildest Places," Volumes 1 sells for $6.00 each, plus
$2.50 shipping and handling, regardless of quantity ordered. With each
order, a copy of the National Wildlife Refuge System Visitor Guide is
enclosed, providing a map of all 540 refuges in the system and a listing
of public use activities available at each station.
To order "America's Wildest Places," visit
www.fws.gov or call 304/876-7692 to place
your order.
Steve McCadams is a professional hunting and fishing guide here in the Paris Landing
area. He has also contributed many outdoor oriented articles to
various national publications. |
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