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My parents were world class musicians.
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I, on the other hand, wanted to wrestle alligators
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and milk rattlesnakes.
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Eventually, this led me down the road
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to making wildlife films about the animals I love.
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Imagine biking with a quarter million
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dollar camera on your back!
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Quite the work.
(cameraman laughing)
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We're surrounded my bears.
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We got as close as we could get.
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So making wildlife films has been a
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passion for me for the last 30 years.
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I look forward to taking you to some of the
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great places to see some of the best wildlife
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in North America.
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Welcome to American Wildlife.
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Welcome to the Alaska peninsula.
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This is a wild and exotic place.
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(dramatic violin music)
(plane motor buzzing)
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It runs 1500 miles all the way down to the Aleutian Islands.
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There's really no roads connecting this
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to any part of the world.
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(dramatic violin music)
(plane motor buzzing)
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It's just one of the most remote places
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that you've ever been.
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(dramatic music)
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I've been going out here for about 32 summers
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and I've seen all kinds of incredibly beautiful things.
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But you've also got incredible danger right here.
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This is part of that Ring of Fire
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that's produced so many volcanoes
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for so many years all over the Western part of Alaska.
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This is all a part of Katmai National Park.
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4.3 million acres of wilderness.
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(dramatic music)
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(upbeat guitar music)
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The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,
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it's one of the great wildlife areas on earth.
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(gentle guitar music)
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Giant mountain ranges
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all along the edge of the Pacific Ocean
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with no houses, and no people.
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Just bears.
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In fact it's the largest and densest
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population of Brown bears in the world.
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Over a bear per square mile.
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That's incredible!
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We see maybe 30 to 50 Brown bears in one day.
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This guy pops out from underneath the bush
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and he's on the way to finding salmon as they turn red.
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Salmon are much easier for them to catch
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when they're bright red.
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They can see them, and they're a little slower.
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(gentle guitar music)
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It's a great place for young bears to come and hang out.
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When you got that much food, they're gonna play.
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Knock each other around.
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Play with their mom.
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And this is the best of all times
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when you've got that much food.
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(dramatic music)
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Some of the danger here,
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lurks beneath the ground.
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(dramatic music)
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There are massive magma chambers
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all along this volcanic ridge.
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(dramatic music)
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You can look at even a piece of water
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and there's methane gas popping up.
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These are just indications of how warm it is
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underneath the ground.
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And you can see just how
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volcanic the whole real estate looks like.
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(dramatic music)
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In fact, on June 6th, 1912,
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(loud explosion)
a monster went off.
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One whole volcano drained down into another volcanic tube
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and all the hot ash came out of one hole in the ground
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from two separate volcanoes!
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This is the top of one of the volcanoes that went off.
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It imploded 17 hundred feet.
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It was so loud that if you lived in Washington, D.C.
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And it erupted in Chicago,
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you would've heard it!
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It shot ash 27 miles up into the atmosphere
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for 60 hours and changed the mean temperature
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of the Northern hemisphere by two degrees for two years.
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This eruption was so powerful
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it put ash in the Sahara desert,
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and the valley was slathered with a thick gumbo
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of super heated rock and boiling ash.
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This must have been what it was like
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after the original eruption.
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Just huge winds blowing up and down the valley.
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Blowing ash that is so fine
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that it gets into everything.
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It got into our cameras, it got into our backpacks,
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every bit of clothing that we had.
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We actually anchored our cameras
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with 50 pounds of weights to be able to continue to film.
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This volcano is west of Kodiak island.
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But the winds were blowing the right way
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and so about a 150 miles away,
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it dumped six feet of ash.
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The residents just thought it was the end of the earth,
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and that literally loaded up boats and went off shore.
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(dramatic music)
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So at first, some of the animals may have
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thought that the volcanic eruptions were weather changes.
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But, soon there were vibrations in the earth
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and everything started leaving the area.
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(dramatic music)
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(somber music)
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Within the next couple of years
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there were a number of adventurers
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that just went out on the valley
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on their own and looked around.
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When they first saw the valley itself,
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they were blown away.
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Here were giant steam vents
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all up and down the valley floor.
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Literally hundreds and hundreds of them.
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'Course they call it the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,
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but it was actually steam.
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And it was once a riverine valley!
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(somber music)
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The steam was from
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an incredible blanket of extremely hot ash
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all over these streams and creeks.
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Well, water can't be compressed
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so it came up through the valley floor as hot steam.
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(somber music)
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It was completely covered in ash,
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300 to 700 feet deep.
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Now it's not loose,
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it's packed kind of like a construction site.
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You can walk on it.
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They actually roped down inside some of the steam vents.
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They looked all up and down the valley at the hot
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chambers of magma right underneath the surface
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that were steaming everything up.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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So they came in and cooked,
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they fried bacon and hot cakes
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and all kinds of things, over the steam vents.
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Scraped away the volcanic ash,
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put the ice to good use by making water.
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They created their own little world,
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for several years going back and forth
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into the valley and exploring.
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(dramatic music)
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These are magma plugs from farther down the peninsula.
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But they're much like the plugs in
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the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
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These ancient plugs, have absolutely no life growing on them
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after all these years.
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There may be a few insects,
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a lichen or two,
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but you'll see no green plants.
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The ash is still 300 feet thick.
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And so today, you can see exactly
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where the volcanic ash ends,
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and where the forest begins.
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(upbeat music)
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Wind, rain have eroded these big walls of ash
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and made it all kinds of unusual shapes.
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The fluted tops here have been
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hammered on by 50 and 60 mile an hour winds day after day.
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Water, of course it rushes through the valley floor
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and creates little canyon like areas,
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much like miniature Grand Canyons.
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The force of the water is incredible.
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And it waters a big area down below the valley itself.
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(inspirational music)
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A volcanic area like this, after a big eruption,
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looks like the end of the earth.
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But it really is more like the beginning
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of a new kind of earth.
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You're getting all kinds of nutrients,
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and the ash itself is permeable so
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water will pass through it
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and deliver those nutrients right into the soil.
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(inspirational music)
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And some of the birds are even nesting
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right along the edge of the valley, in ash.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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The salmon came back after this original eruption,
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and very quickly, and in short order,
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the bears and the salmon were right back at it again.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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In fact today, a majority of the people who come here,
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don't even know that this is an active volcanic area.
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So today, there's still many, many bears
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lots and lots of salmon,
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and just about everybody has salmon on their plate
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at one time or another in the summer.
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(upbeat guitar music)
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(dramatic music)
(plane engine buzzing)
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The tectonic plates, are still moving.
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And the valley floor has a few surprises of it's own.
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There's still a magma chamber,
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less than a kilometer down, according to some scientists,
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that is as big as the original eruption.
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But for now, the valley floor is quiet.
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There are still all kinds of critters
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making their living right along the edge of the valley.
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But underneath, deep down below the surface of the valley,
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there's a sleeping giant.
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A giant just waiting to roar again.
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(dramatic music)
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