08 December 2005

PALM SPRINGS, CA - Dr Reese's Planet debuted Tuesday December 6th, 2005 on KVCR - PBS. Award winning conservation scientist, professor of Botany at Humboldt State University, children's best selling author, science writer and family man Dr Reese Halter hosts the TV nature show Dr Reese's Planet which travels throughout the southwest. Twenty-six half-hour family shows probe and explore the natural world. From the peaks of Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park at the headwaters of the mighty Colorado River, to the White Sands of New Mexico and the largest gypsum deposit in the world, to the snow forests of southern California, to the largest living organism on Earth in south central Utah - Pando - the stand of 47,000 interconnected quaking aspen trees weighing an astounding 13.5 million pounds. From surviving in the back-country snow forests to making your own water in the desert Dr Halter entertains and informs the audience about how Mother Nature works. "The feedback from the show last year on Time Warner in the Coachella Valley was so overwhelming that KVCR - PBS was a natural pick-up as it now feeds our show into a potential audience of 12 million southern Californian viewers," says Dr Halter.

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