Series: 52 Episodes

Program Length: half-hour (23:30 min)

Program Description:

This park protects the southern bluff of the Guadalupe Mountains and northern segment of the Chihuahuan Desert, North America's largest one. While it's the solitude, the fascinating plants and the tapestry of subtle colors that attracts people to the desert, naturalist Sue Ellen Fast looks deeper, exploring the strategies plants and cactuses have developed to store water. She also explores the stunning McCittrick Canyon adorned in its fall colors. Through it flows a permanent creek which allows wildlife to survive. In the higher regions, she watches a butterfly tea party, and studies the parasitic mistletoe and other flora and fauna of this region.