The Nature of Things Season 11

Season 11

Air date: 1970-11-02

Episodes: 15

Episodes

E1: "The Last Stand: Western Mountain Parks"

The first in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. The series looks at a variety of areas in the world set aside as specially protected areas of wilderness and natural wildlife. The first program is about western mountain parks and the work being done by biologists and scientists to save mountain wildlife.

Air date: 1970-11-02

E2: "The Last Stand: The Everglades of Florida"

The Everglades, unique in the world, are dependent entirely on water. But the beautiful birds and animals in the park are threatened by land development and a new airport, whose drainage policies are drying up the area.

Air date: 1970-11-09

E3: The Last Stand: Point Pelee

The third in a four-part series entitled "The Last Stand." Point Pelee is a tiny peninsula in southwestern Ontario, jutting into Lake Erie, which contains a fresh water marsh full of wildlife of all kinds. It is also the last stronghold of the southern deciduous forest in Canada and contains southern species of plants and animals not found anywhere else in the country.

Air date: 1970-11-16

E4: The Last Stand: The Southwestern Desert

The last in a four-part series entitled The Last Stand. This program looks at Sonoran Desert in US Southwest and in Mexico.

Air date: 1970-11-23

E5: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of The Universe

The first in a three-part series entitled "A Sense of Time". This examines past and present ideas on questions of how old is universe.

Air date: 1970-12-07

E6: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of The Earth

This program focuses on a new geophysical concept of our planet.

Air date: 1970-12-14

E7: A Sense Of Time: The Age Of Man

Planet Earth has supported life for some three billion years; but Man, characterized by his powers of thought and other other intelligent faculties, has shown greatest development.

Air date: 1970-12-21

E8: The Great Lakes

Sociologists tell us that Great Lakes are basis for civilization around them. If lakes fail.

Air date: 1971-02-01

E9: The Great Lakes

Immediate implementation of pollution control in our Great Lakes is urgently needed if we are to preserve our most vital waterway.

Air date: 1971-02-08

E10: Population Problems: Everybody'S Baby

Population: Everybody's Baby" examines projected consequences of overpopulation and-controversy surrounding population control.

Air date: 1971-02-15

E11: Population Problems: Tomorrow'S Child

Featuring a national opinion poll on public attitudes in Canada towards population growth.

Air date: 1971-03-01

E12: Who Help Themselves

Dealing with McGill University Settlement Mental Health Unit project in Montreal..

Air date: 1971-03-15

E13: Psychiatry: Heavy Night

Psychiatry: Heavy Night

Air date: 1971-03-22

E14: Psychiatry: Street Fighting Mad

A visit to Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute, where a disturbed teenager responds to treatment.

Air date: 1971-03-29

E15: Psychiatry: Human Potential

A look at Vancouver-area encounter groups.

Air date: 1971-04-05