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By Nature’s Design: Exploring Our Native Wildlife

Preview: Welcome to the Wetlands

Explore the threats facing Ohio’s wetlands and the fight for their future.

Aired 04/22/2025

By Nature’s Design: Exploring Our Native Wildlife

Preview: Welcome to the Wetlands

Preview: 4/22/2025 | 30s

Explore the threats facing Ohio’s wetlands and the fight for their future.

Discover an ecosystem under threat and the people and forces working to save it — the fascinating world of the wetlands. Exploring Ohio’s diminished wetlands, this episode examines the dangers wetlands are facing and what can be done to preserve them with the help of local experts.

Aired 04/22/2025

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By Nature’s Design: Exploring Our Native Wildlife is a local public television program presented by PBS Western Reserve

Great Black Swamp Drainage

Clip: 4/22/2025 | 1m 26s | Lauren Kinsman-Costello talks about the drainage of the former Great Black Swamp. (1m 26s)

Lake Erie Algae Bloom

Clip: 4/22/2025 | 42s | Eric Saas talks about the harmful algae blooms that occur in the Western Basin of Lake Erie. (42s)

Trailer: Welcome to the Wetlands

Preview: 3/21/2025 | 1m 30s | Explore the threats facing Ohio’s wetlands and the fight for their future. (1m 30s)

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