1 00:00:01,101 --> 00:00:02,035 - [Baratunde] When I think of sand, 2 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:04,771 I think of beaches, riverbanks, 3 00:00:04,771 --> 00:00:06,706 maybe big old sand dunes. 4 00:00:06,706 --> 00:00:10,477 But it turns out we use sand for just about everything. 5 00:00:10,477 --> 00:00:12,045 - I wish people understood 6 00:00:12,045 --> 00:00:16,816 that sand is literally used in everything. 7 00:00:16,816 --> 00:00:21,888 Toothpaste, paint, coastal restoration, your phone. 8 00:00:23,156 --> 00:00:25,058 Sand is everywhere, whether you like it or not. 9 00:00:25,058 --> 00:00:26,826 And we're running out of it. 10 00:00:26,826 --> 00:00:28,461 - Now, if you're like me, you're thinking, 11 00:00:28,461 --> 00:00:30,563 sand has a crisis? 12 00:00:30,563 --> 00:00:32,799 We have way too many other crises 13 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:35,502 for sand to try to crowd in on the action. 14 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:36,569 What is going on here? 15 00:00:40,006 --> 00:00:44,477 (bright music) 16 00:00:44,477 --> 00:00:46,880 To understand the importance of sand, 17 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,716 we need to travel to the mouth of the Mississippi River, 18 00:00:49,716 --> 00:00:51,117 where the sand you expect along 19 00:00:51,117 --> 00:00:53,553 the coastline is disappearing. 20 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:56,956 - Coastal Louisiana is eroding 21 00:00:56,956 --> 00:01:00,493 and disappearing more rapidly than it should. 22 00:01:00,493 --> 00:01:03,096 - [Baratunde] The wetlands along the Louisiana coastline 23 00:01:03,096 --> 00:01:06,399 are basically formed by sediment, sand, clay, 24 00:01:06,399 --> 00:01:09,102 and silt that the Mississippi River carries along 25 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:11,871 and deposits when it reaches the open ocean. 26 00:01:11,871 --> 00:01:14,774 And for thousands of years, the river was pretty good 27 00:01:14,774 --> 00:01:16,042 at moving this sediment, 28 00:01:17,143 --> 00:01:19,012 growing the delta a few square miles per year, 29 00:01:19,012 --> 00:01:22,048 until it was one of the largest in the world. 30 00:01:22,048 --> 00:01:25,118 But because we humans have tried to control the river 31 00:01:25,118 --> 00:01:26,853 and keep our community safe, 32 00:01:26,853 --> 00:01:30,190 sediment buildup in the Delta has slowed dramatically, 33 00:01:30,190 --> 00:01:33,393 putting the coastline at risk from rising sea levels. 34 00:01:33,393 --> 00:01:38,064 Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles 35 00:01:38,064 --> 00:01:38,932 of land. 36 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:42,202 That's an area about the size of Delaware. 37 00:01:42,202 --> 00:01:43,303 - [Richard] One of the main culprits 38 00:01:43,303 --> 00:01:45,004 is the flood protection system 39 00:01:45,004 --> 00:01:46,339 along the Mississippi River. 40 00:01:46,339 --> 00:01:48,608 What happened was as those levees were built, 41 00:01:48,608 --> 00:01:51,010 they basically cut off the source of sediment 42 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:53,279 that was nourishing our wetlands. 43 00:01:54,514 --> 00:01:55,882 - [Baratunde] This is Barry Richard. 44 00:01:55,882 --> 00:01:57,317 He's the construction manager 45 00:01:57,317 --> 00:02:00,220 for the largest marsh creation project in the state. 46 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:02,755 - [Richard] Used to be habitat for birds, 47 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:04,858 fish, shrimp, crabs, 48 00:02:04,858 --> 00:02:08,027 things that you hunt or fish for that provide 49 00:02:08,027 --> 00:02:09,629 for all the communities. 50 00:02:09,629 --> 00:02:11,531 - [Baratunde] While there's no single solution 51 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:12,932 to coastal erosion, 52 00:02:12,932 --> 00:02:15,668 experts like Barry are involved in a number of projects 53 00:02:15,668 --> 00:02:17,403 to help restore the coastline. 54 00:02:17,403 --> 00:02:20,140 One of the fastest is to literally rebuild 55 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:21,808 the wetlands we've lost. 56 00:02:21,808 --> 00:02:24,177 - Just behind those trees over there, 57 00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:28,114 that's the dredge or the machine that's sucking up the dirt. 58 00:02:28,114 --> 00:02:30,316 And it's sucking it up and it's 59 00:02:30,316 --> 00:02:31,818 coming straight from that dredge, 60 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:33,686 and it'll come out of a pipe that looks just like that. 61 00:02:33,686 --> 00:02:35,788 We've gone as long as 23 miles, 62 00:02:35,788 --> 00:02:38,858 and once it hits that open water, it starts to kind of stack 63 00:02:38,858 --> 00:02:41,794 on top of each other until you get marsh vegetation 64 00:02:41,794 --> 00:02:44,197 growing back on top of that land. 65 00:02:44,197 --> 00:02:47,000 It's not rocket science, we're just moving dirt. 66 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,668 (Richard chuckles) 67 00:02:48,668 --> 00:02:49,903 - [Baratunde] Practices like these 68 00:02:49,903 --> 00:02:51,437 have allowed local communities 69 00:02:51,437 --> 00:02:54,374 to recover some of the wetlands and, in turn, 70 00:02:54,374 --> 00:02:57,277 protect the wildlife and human communities that rely on it. 71 00:02:58,444 --> 00:03:01,381 Unfortunately, it's not a perfect solution. 72 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:04,250 Dredging and other forms of sand extraction 73 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:07,053 can actually damage the ecosystems they're ultimately trying 74 00:03:07,053 --> 00:03:09,822 to protect, and the land they create is eventually going 75 00:03:09,822 --> 00:03:11,291 to erode the same way, 76 00:03:11,291 --> 00:03:13,993 which means that to even have a chance of keeping up, 77 00:03:13,993 --> 00:03:15,628 we'll have to keep on dredging. 78 00:03:15,628 --> 00:03:19,332 To make things worse, because it takes sand thousands 79 00:03:19,332 --> 00:03:21,467 to millions of years to form, 80 00:03:21,467 --> 00:03:24,103 sand depletion is a zero-sum game, 81 00:03:24,103 --> 00:03:27,207 at least as far as human lifespan is concerned. 82 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:29,342 So, when sand is taken away from one place 83 00:03:29,342 --> 00:03:32,045 to help restore another, we're eventually going to run out 84 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:34,147 of sand at the source location. 85 00:03:34,147 --> 00:03:38,051 So, it's clear what we need is another source of sand. 86 00:03:38,051 --> 00:03:41,187 And one solution might be just upriver. 87 00:03:41,187 --> 00:03:44,090 (bright music) 88 00:03:44,090 --> 00:03:46,292 Welcome to New Orleans. 89 00:03:46,292 --> 00:03:47,727 In this city, 90 00:03:47,727 --> 00:03:50,663 known for its unique history and exuberant culture, 91 00:03:50,663 --> 00:03:53,433 a small group believes they have the answer, 92 00:03:53,433 --> 00:03:55,235 or at least one of them. 93 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:57,537 - I recycle glass into sand 94 00:03:57,537 --> 00:03:59,772 and use it for coastal restoration, 95 00:03:59,772 --> 00:04:02,308 disaster relief, new glass products and more. 96 00:04:02,308 --> 00:04:04,310 - [Baratunde] Fran Trautmann is the founder 97 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:05,745 of Glass Half Full. 98 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:08,481 - In reality, 70% of all glass created 99 00:04:08,481 --> 00:04:10,650 in the United States goes to a landfill. 100 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:13,720 So, the majority of our glass is going to waste right now, 101 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,756 and many places need an option to turn glass 102 00:04:16,756 --> 00:04:19,726 into something new that isn't just sending it to a landfill. 103 00:04:19,726 --> 00:04:22,929 - [Baratunde] Sadly, it's true, and it's been getting worse. 104 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:25,431 Starting around 2014, many small 105 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:28,701 and mid-sized cities couldn't afford the rising cost 106 00:04:28,701 --> 00:04:29,969 of glass processing, 107 00:04:31,237 --> 00:04:33,806 so they just cut-glass recycling programs altogether. 108 00:04:35,308 --> 00:04:38,444 (glass clattering) 109 00:04:38,444 --> 00:04:43,116 (light music) 110 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:45,551 - I've lived in South Louisiana my whole life. 111 00:04:45,551 --> 00:04:48,588 I've seen firsthand our lack of recycling 112 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:52,525 and also our coastal erosion crisis here in Louisiana. 113 00:04:52,525 --> 00:04:56,229 And so, when I got to college and my co-founder said, hey, 114 00:04:56,229 --> 00:04:59,165 we should do something about glass recycling and we realized 115 00:04:59,165 --> 00:05:01,301 that we could turn glass back 116 00:05:01,301 --> 00:05:03,803 into sand and use that locally, 117 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:05,838 everything just clicks. 118 00:05:05,838 --> 00:05:10,910 (bright music) 119 00:05:12,245 --> 00:05:15,014 So, this is our mountain of glass. 120 00:05:15,014 --> 00:05:17,517 It used to be probably triple this size, 121 00:05:17,517 --> 00:05:20,486 but now we are much more efficient with processing. 122 00:05:20,486 --> 00:05:22,588 This is our processing system. 123 00:05:22,588 --> 00:05:25,124 This is where the magic happens. 124 00:05:25,124 --> 00:05:27,160 Sand and gravel will come out here, 125 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,096 where it'll then travel up this conveyor belt 126 00:05:30,096 --> 00:05:32,332 and then be sifted by sockets. 127 00:05:32,332 --> 00:05:35,401 This is our main sand product, so it's a coarse sand. 128 00:05:35,401 --> 00:05:38,204 This is what we use for coastal restoration. 129 00:05:38,204 --> 00:05:40,139 - [Baratunde] But how does recycled sand 130 00:05:40,139 --> 00:05:42,075 compare to the real thing? 131 00:05:42,075 --> 00:05:44,344 - Hey, it's almost as tall as me. 132 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,479 - [Baratunde] Julie Albert is an associate professor 133 00:05:46,479 --> 00:05:48,014 at Tulane University. 134 00:05:48,014 --> 00:05:50,116 She's studying the viability of glass 135 00:05:50,116 --> 00:05:52,618 as a solution to coastal erosion. 136 00:05:52,618 --> 00:05:54,354 - So, these are bald cypress. 137 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:58,725 They are growing in either 100% glass sand, 138 00:05:58,725 --> 00:06:00,660 sediment dredged from the Mississippi River, 139 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:03,196 or a mixture of the two. 140 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:05,231 It's important to remember that 141 00:06:05,231 --> 00:06:06,966 the glass that we're crushing 142 00:06:06,966 --> 00:06:10,403 into sand originally came from sand. 143 00:06:10,403 --> 00:06:13,773 - [Baratunde] Glass is mostly silica sand, after all. 144 00:06:13,773 --> 00:06:15,942 We've heated it up to really high temperatures 145 00:06:15,942 --> 00:06:19,112 and cooled it down into shapes we want, like glass bottles. 146 00:06:19,112 --> 00:06:20,513 - So then when you take that glass bottle, 147 00:06:20,513 --> 00:06:21,814 and you crush it back into sand, 148 00:06:21,814 --> 00:06:23,516 now you've got something 149 00:06:23,516 --> 00:06:26,519 that physically looks just like natural sand, 150 00:06:26,519 --> 00:06:29,389 and chemically is pretty much the same 151 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:31,124 as natural sand. 152 00:06:31,124 --> 00:06:33,426 It's a very positive finding that the plants are happy 153 00:06:33,426 --> 00:06:35,528 with the recycled glass sand. 154 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:38,331 It means we can put the glass sand on the beach 155 00:06:38,331 --> 00:06:41,434 and expect the vegetation to grow, take root, 156 00:06:41,434 --> 00:06:43,503 hold everything in place. 157 00:06:43,503 --> 00:06:45,772 - Since its founding in 2020, 158 00:06:45,772 --> 00:06:47,540 Glass Half Full has recycled 159 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:50,476 roughly 5 million pounds of glass, 160 00:06:50,476 --> 00:06:53,079 about half of which ends up as usable sand. 161 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:56,449 And most of that goes to help restoration projects. 162 00:06:56,449 --> 00:06:59,185 But recycling glass into sand has benefits 163 00:06:59,185 --> 00:07:02,255 that go way beyond just coastal restoration. 164 00:07:02,255 --> 00:07:04,690 That's because sand is way more important 165 00:07:04,690 --> 00:07:05,792 than you might think. 166 00:07:07,193 --> 00:07:09,996 It's the second most used natural resource on Earth, 167 00:07:09,996 --> 00:07:11,697 right after water. 168 00:07:11,697 --> 00:07:14,600 - So, you see a desert and you say, 169 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,503 there are so many deserts with too much sand. 170 00:07:17,503 --> 00:07:19,405 How can there be a sand shortage? 171 00:07:19,405 --> 00:07:23,443 Desert sand is windblown, meaning that it's extremely fine 172 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:26,679 and rounded, and that is essentially useless. 173 00:07:26,679 --> 00:07:30,016 The really valuable sand is generally river sand, 174 00:07:30,016 --> 00:07:33,386 but can also be sand from quarries or even dredged 175 00:07:33,386 --> 00:07:34,320 from our oceans. 176 00:07:35,621 --> 00:07:37,723 - [Baratunde] This means that the sand crisis 177 00:07:37,723 --> 00:07:40,226 isn't just about less sand. 178 00:07:40,226 --> 00:07:41,794 It's also about how hard it is 179 00:07:41,794 --> 00:07:44,197 to get to the sand that remains. 180 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:47,233 - We're not gonna literally run out of sand anytime soon. 181 00:07:47,233 --> 00:07:49,368 It's not gonna be like the Mad Max scenario 182 00:07:49,368 --> 00:07:51,838 where you've got gangs of biker mutants fighting 183 00:07:51,838 --> 00:07:55,741 over the last little heaps and hillocks of sand. 184 00:07:55,741 --> 00:07:57,510 There's still a lot of sand out there. 185 00:07:57,510 --> 00:07:59,745 We're having to go further and further and do more, 186 00:07:59,745 --> 00:08:03,449 and more damage to get at the stuff that's left. 187 00:08:03,449 --> 00:08:05,852 - [Baratunde] This is Vince Beiser, a journalist 188 00:08:05,852 --> 00:08:08,821 who literally wrote the book on the sand crisis. 189 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:11,023 - So, the number one thing we use sand for 190 00:08:11,023 --> 00:08:13,392 by far is concrete, 191 00:08:13,392 --> 00:08:16,395 but it's actually a very recent invention. 192 00:08:16,395 --> 00:08:20,800 Concrete really only took off in the early 1900s. 193 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,804 And we went from a world in which we barely used concrete 194 00:08:24,804 --> 00:08:29,475 to a world where we use concrete for everything very fast. 195 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:31,711 - [Baratunde] This may be why areas of the world 196 00:08:31,711 --> 00:08:34,313 where sand extraction impacts the environment the most 197 00:08:34,313 --> 00:08:36,883 are areas with soaring infrastructure demand, 198 00:08:36,883 --> 00:08:38,651 like India and China. 199 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:41,687 But the impacts are more than just environmental. 200 00:08:41,687 --> 00:08:45,825 - In some places, it's gotten so bad that organized crime 201 00:08:45,825 --> 00:08:47,860 has gotten into the game. 202 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:51,631 There's a huge black market for sand, believe it or not. 203 00:08:51,631 --> 00:08:52,865 - [Baratunde] That's right. 204 00:08:52,865 --> 00:08:55,768 When a valuable resource becomes really scarce, 205 00:08:55,768 --> 00:08:58,971 people resort to extreme measures to get it. 206 00:08:58,971 --> 00:08:59,906 Don't believe me? 207 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:02,341 Look at what happened in 2008. 208 00:09:02,341 --> 00:09:05,912 - An entire beach was stolen in Jamaica, 209 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:07,647 which is just insane to think about. 210 00:09:07,647 --> 00:09:09,882 They went to bed one night, there was a beach, they woke up, 211 00:09:09,882 --> 00:09:14,954 no beach, because it was made of this beautiful white sand. 212 00:09:16,055 --> 00:09:17,823 - [Baratunde] They stole a whole beach. 213 00:09:17,823 --> 00:09:18,724 Seriously. 214 00:09:20,059 --> 00:09:22,728 The late Queen of England actually tried to get it back. 215 00:09:22,728 --> 00:09:24,830 If you live in the US and you haven't heard 216 00:09:24,830 --> 00:09:26,966 about these kind of events, 217 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:28,467 there might be a reason for that. 218 00:09:28,467 --> 00:09:31,404 It's just not as dramatic here, at least not yet. 219 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:34,173 - I do not think that Americans are paying enough attention 220 00:09:34,173 --> 00:09:35,074 to this issue. 221 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:38,244 I mean, I've been banging on this issue for six, 222 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:39,812 or seven years by now. 223 00:09:39,812 --> 00:09:41,447 So, it's kind of amazing. 224 00:09:41,447 --> 00:09:45,518 It's like the great under-reported environmental issue 225 00:09:45,518 --> 00:09:46,752 of our time. 226 00:09:46,752 --> 00:09:48,421 - [Baratunde] It may not be as obvious 227 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:51,557 as what's happening in places like China and Jamaica, 228 00:09:51,557 --> 00:09:54,327 but America's sand crisis is getting worse. 229 00:09:54,327 --> 00:09:56,329 One of the main issues that we really face here 230 00:09:56,329 --> 00:09:59,265 in the United States when it comes to sand is beaches. 231 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:01,233 They're eroding very, very rapidly. 232 00:10:01,233 --> 00:10:05,137 To keep beaches nice and long and fat and sandy, 233 00:10:05,137 --> 00:10:08,374 we actually have to artificially maintain them. 234 00:10:08,374 --> 00:10:11,344 One of the ways that we do that is by scooping up sand 235 00:10:11,344 --> 00:10:14,246 or sucking up sand from the ocean bottom 236 00:10:14,246 --> 00:10:16,882 and just shooting it up on the coast. 237 00:10:16,882 --> 00:10:19,051 - [Baratunde] So, it's not just Louisiana. 238 00:10:19,051 --> 00:10:22,788 Beaches all over the US are having to be rebuilt, 239 00:10:22,788 --> 00:10:25,992 and the sand for that, It has to come from somewhere. 240 00:10:25,992 --> 00:10:28,361 - We've been taking so much sand that in a lot 241 00:10:28,361 --> 00:10:31,397 of places there is no more sand on the ocean floor. 242 00:10:31,397 --> 00:10:34,300 Like in Miami, they can't do that anymore. 243 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,637 They have literally used up all the sand they can access 244 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:38,738 on the ocean floor. 245 00:10:40,106 --> 00:10:41,907 So instead, they have to bring it in by truck. 246 00:10:41,907 --> 00:10:44,377 You have to go a couple of hours inland 247 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:47,780 to these enormous pits where they dig up sand out 248 00:10:47,780 --> 00:10:51,984 of the earth, pile it on trucks, haul it to the coast. 249 00:10:51,984 --> 00:10:53,586 We're spending billions of dollars 250 00:10:53,586 --> 00:10:56,188 to artificially fatten up beaches 251 00:10:56,188 --> 00:10:59,058 from Florida to California. 252 00:10:59,058 --> 00:11:01,360 - [Baratunde] What can we do to solve it? 253 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,231 Locally, we can use innovations like recycled sand. 254 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:06,932 This restores our coastlines 255 00:11:06,932 --> 00:11:09,935 while reducing our dependence on mining for sand. 256 00:11:09,935 --> 00:11:14,006 - The global sand shortage is a huge issue. 257 00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:16,509 It can't be solved with just one solution, 258 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:19,145 but I do believe when glass is otherwise ending up 259 00:11:19,145 --> 00:11:23,349 in a landfill, then using recycled glass sand is one part 260 00:11:23,349 --> 00:11:24,784 of that solution. 261 00:11:24,784 --> 00:11:26,552 - [Baratunde] But for now, what you can get 262 00:11:26,552 --> 00:11:30,156 from recycled glass is just a drop in the bucket. 263 00:11:30,156 --> 00:11:32,658 - The dredge that is sitting out there in the lake right now 264 00:11:32,658 --> 00:11:37,496 can move about 40,000 cubic yards of dirt in one day. 265 00:11:37,496 --> 00:11:40,266 So, all of those dump trucks that you see on the highway, 266 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:43,269 it would take 2,500 of those to do 267 00:11:43,269 --> 00:11:45,738 what this dredge can do in one day. 268 00:11:45,738 --> 00:11:48,374 - I'm no mathematician, but to me, 269 00:11:48,374 --> 00:11:51,377 that seems like a lot of glass bottles. 270 00:11:51,377 --> 00:11:54,346 And that is just to match the sediment extracted 271 00:11:54,346 --> 00:11:56,348 by a single dredge. 272 00:11:56,348 --> 00:11:57,883 That gives you an idea 273 00:11:57,883 --> 00:12:01,654 of why recycling alone can't solve the global sand crisis. 274 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:04,824 - Recycling, sadly, is not the solution. 275 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:06,258 Recycling can help. 276 00:12:06,258 --> 00:12:08,494 It can reduce the amount of fresh sand 277 00:12:08,494 --> 00:12:11,464 that we have to dig up out of the planet or from riverbeds, 278 00:12:11,464 --> 00:12:13,866 but it can never fully replace sand. 279 00:12:15,101 --> 00:12:17,369 - [Baratunde] As human civilization continues to grow, 280 00:12:17,369 --> 00:12:19,271 our need for sand will grow too. 281 00:12:19,271 --> 00:12:21,874 But that doesn't necessarily mean that the way we exploit 282 00:12:21,874 --> 00:12:23,943 our environment needs to grow with it. 283 00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:26,545 We have to figure out ways to live our lives, 284 00:12:26,545 --> 00:12:29,915 and to build our cities, which is where most people live, 285 00:12:29,915 --> 00:12:33,552 in ways that just consume less across the board. 286 00:12:33,552 --> 00:12:37,656 Less sand, less concrete, less glass, less energy, 287 00:12:37,656 --> 00:12:38,724 less of everything. 288 00:12:39,992 --> 00:12:41,527 And that is very much doable. 289 00:12:41,527 --> 00:12:43,863 - Maybe the first step is gaining a new appreciation 290 00:12:43,863 --> 00:12:46,031 for the things we take from the Earth, 291 00:12:46,031 --> 00:12:48,601 even something as small as a grain of sand. 292 00:12:50,202 --> 00:12:51,537 - Thanks for watching. 293 00:12:51,537 --> 00:12:53,506 For more tales from the great outdoors, 294 00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:55,941 check out season two of America Outdoors 295 00:12:55,941 --> 00:12:57,510 with Baratunde Thurston. 296 00:12:57,510 --> 00:12:59,512 You can find us in the PBS video app, 297 00:12:59,512 --> 00:13:01,347 or your local PBS station. 298 00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:04,250 Click the link in the description below to find out more.