PRESS RELEASE - Thursday, September 3, 2009
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John Grabowska Film Celebrates Yellowstone's Constantly Evolving Land Formation and Life; Includes IdahoPTV-Produced Piece on Idaho's Corner of Park

—Airs Tuesday, September 8, at 8:00/7:00 p.m. MT/PT; Repeats Sunday, September 13, at 11:30 p.m. MT/PT and Monday September 28, at 10:30 p.m. MT/PT
—See it in HD, September 8, at 7:00/6:00 p.m. MT/PT and 10:00/9:00 p.m. MT/PT; check online schedule for additional times

A new film by John Grabowska (CROWN OF THE CONTINENT, REMEMBERED EARTH) reveals the forces that established Yellowstone National Park's land formations, its plant and animal life, and the evolving landscape of today.

YELLOWSTONE: LAND TO LIFE airs Tuesday (September 8) at 8:00/7:300 p.m. MT/PT on Idaho Public Television's main channel (Idaho sub-channel 1) with repeats on September 13 and 28. It also airs in high definition (HD sub-channel 2) at 7:00/6:00 p.m. MT/PT and 10:00/9:00 p.m. MT/PT with several repeats during the month. Check the online schedule at idahptv.org/schedules for additional air times and dates.

The lyrical film captures Yellowstone's geologic roots of volcanism and glaciation, and how they affect land formation and soil, and in turn, the plant and animal life. This place of fire and ice is constantly in motion. Snowmelt and rain seep through rocks to be superheated and recycled back in spectacular convulsions. Hot water carries dissolved minerals to the surface, where new rocks form before visitors' eyes. There are more mud pots, fumerols, hot springs and geysers in Yellowstone than exist in the rest of the world combined, according to the film.

"It is as if we are watching two wildly different worlds collide - the hidden earth of turmoil and the earth of air and life," Graboska says as narrator of the film.

The program's final minutes feature an Idaho Public Television-produced piece about YELLOWSTONE"S CASCADE CORNER - the 200-square-mile piece of Yellowstone at the southwest corner of the park that lies within Idaho. Here, there are fewer dramatic geo-thermal features and visitors, but many of the park's 50 waterfalls drop dramatically in this corner of the park. Access is frequently by hiking or horseback but the rewards include the 250-foot Union Falls.

Visit YELLOWSTONE LAND TO LIFE on the Web on the IdahoPTV Web site at idahoptv.org/Yellowstone.