Get outside with America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston

• Aimee Bealer
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The Suwannee is one of the last wild rivers in America, and its watershed creates woods and wetlands, marshes, and cave systems. From its headwaters in the Okefenokee Swamp, Baratunde journeys downstream, meeting colorful denizens of the Suwannee. From jet skiers to herpetologists, manatees to snapping turtles, he learns how this unique environment inspires a whole range of passions. 

 

America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston returns with a brand-new season as the best-selling writer, podcaster, and comedian travels across the US to uncover more amazing stories about how we work, play and interact with the outdoors. In a country as diverse as America, Baratunde is on a mission to see how culture, history and the land itself are shaping what we do when we step through our front doors to embrace an outdoor way of life. From a champion ice climber in Utah to BIPOC mountain bikers in the Ozarks, from biologists saving snapping turtles on the Suwannee River to a scientist revealing what happens to the human body when we spend time in nature, Baratunde meets a fascinating cast of Americans with one thing in common: a passion for the great outdoors. 

 

New this season, episodes will dig into the growing evidence that links people’s overall health and wellness with being outside and will also explore new ways of making the outdoors accessible to everyone. The series will also continue to showcase how Americans seek out the outdoors in the most unlikely of places, even as our changing climate grows more extreme.

Watch America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston Wednesday, September 6 at 8pm on WITF TV. And binge season 1 with WITF Passport and the PBS or WITF app!