Outdoors Maryland; 1405
Item Information
- Title:
- Outdoors Maryland; 1405
- Description:
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Night Songs: Take a walk outside any balmy late summer evening and listen to Nature's insect symphony -- a nightly orchestration by the 30-40 species of crickets and katydids that call our forests and fields and lawns home. Wil Hershberg is a cricket and katydid fanatic -- and connoisseur listener. Armed with microphones and headsets and recorders, Wil takes to the night to record their songs, and has compiled over 50 chorus and species samples on CD. The CD is now being used as a resource to teach volunteers how to identify different cricket and katydid species songs for a new joint research effort by scientists to document Mid-Atlantic cricket and katydid species. The research is fascinating because few people who enjoy listening to the summer night insect concerts have any idea that so many species exist here. And the research is important because these insects are of central importance to the food web and plant ecologies and so provide a wide spectrum ?looksee?at the health of the environment. Research on most insect populations is notoriously difficult because of their small size and secretive nature. Happily, katydid and crickets broadcast their whereabouts by vocalizations and are big enough and easy enough to capture to document (and film in dramatical close-up). It's even possible to see the mechanisms by which they sing the songs so many humans equate with the essence of summer, as we go on location with Wil recording and accompany scientists and volunteers counting crickets and katydids. (Species) Amaranth: The lowly Amaranth is an elegant metaphor?a symbol of the ever-changing world of native-versus-invasive plant species that continues to sweep the Earth as biological globalization becomes a reality. In the smaller, more manageable context of its importance to Maryland, the Seabeach Amaranth offers scientists a rare opportunity to resurrect a species once thought extinct. It also encourages them to revisit the state's botanical history, where plants' historical interaction with other species is mapped in the genetic heritage of surviving flora, and to explain the man-made-and-maintained hierarchy of species that continues to evolve as land management intensifies. ( DNR/ecology restoration Boys' & Girls' Club: Kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Annapolis take to the Chesapeake Bay on a Chesapeake Bay foundation skipjack in search of adventure and learning. (Education) Outdoors Maryland is a magazine featuring segments on nature and the outdoors in Maryland.
- Production company:
- Maryland Public Television
- Date:
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June 17, 2013
- Format:
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Film/Video
- Genre:
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Magazine
- Location:
- Maryland Public Television
- Collection (local):
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
- Series:
- Maryland Public Television > Outdoors Maryland
- Subjects:
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Nature
- Extent:
- 00:27:23
- Link to Item:
- https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-394-51vdnntg
- Terms of Use:
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- Publisher:
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Maryland Public Television