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[ Aboriginal music ]

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[ Engine starting ]

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- The super cub and I are old

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friends. We spend a lot of time

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together. It's not a fast

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airplane, but on wheels, floats

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or skis, it'll get in and out of

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just about anywhere. I fly a cub

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in the Rocky Mountains. The land

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Aboriginal people say is the

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backbone of the world. They call

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it the Shining mountains.

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My great-grandfather walked in

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these mountains, and sometimes

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when I look down I think I see

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his footprints. To him this was

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the wild west. There is so much

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wilderness and wildlife, he

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thought it would last forever.

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He was wrong.

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Over the years of flying and

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climbing in these mountains,

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I've seen how quickly we're

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changing them. Here we are

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only 3 generations later,

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wondering if the backbone of the

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world can break. I don't see as

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many caribou, wolves or

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grizzlies down there as I used

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to. These animals are what make

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the mountains wild. Without

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them, we don't have any

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wilderness. It makes me sad to

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think that our great-grandkids

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may never see them. I believe

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the future of these wild places

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will stand or fall based on what

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we do or don't do now.

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I'm going to fly the backbone of

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the world and explore the

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mountains between Yellowstone

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and the Yukon. There's a lot of

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talk these days about this

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region being the wild heart of

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North America.

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We'll see.

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We'll meet people who are

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devoting their lives to better

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understand this place. Together

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we'll explore our history, look

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at where we stand today and

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consider what the Rockies'

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future might look like.

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We'll begin in Yellowstone

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in Northern Wyoming. Established

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in 1872, Yellowstone was the

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first national park in the

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world. Early last century park

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managers deliberately

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exterminated every wolf in

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Yellowstone. Today the ancient

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predators are back.

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[ Wolf cry ]

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Canis Lupus. The Rocky Mountain

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Grey Wolf was recently restored

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to Yellowstone. Tourists love

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them, ranchers fearing for their

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livestock hate them. It's

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complicated playing with nature.

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Bob Landis thinks and lives like

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a wolf. He has to, he's a

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wildlife filmmaker. Bob offers

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us a rare opportunity to see

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wolves close up in the wild.

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He started filming with his dad

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40 years ago in Northern Canada.

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He thought he'd never find a

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better place to film wildlife,

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until he moved to Yellowstone.

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- We humans have impacted the

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animals just by our numbers more

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than by anything we intend to