Nature: Winter in Minnesota
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Nature: Big horn sheep in Montana
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Nature: Bald eagles in Idaho
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We leave you this Sunday in frosty Lansford, North Dakota. Videographer: Jim Olson
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"Sunday Morning" takes us to a rain forest in Peru, where parrots are part of the local color. Videography: Nathan Dappen and Neil Losin.
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"Sunday Morning" marks the start of the National Park Service's 2016 centennial year with a view of a national treasure: Yellowstone National Park
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We leave you this Sunday knocking wood, with woodpeckers hard at work at the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania
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"Sunday Morning" takes us to Hocking Hills State Park in south central Ohio
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Hocking Hills State Park in south central Ohio. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.
"Sunday Morning" takes us to a rare coastal dune lake at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in South Walton, Florida
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"Sunday Morning" takes us to an octopus' garden off St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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"Sunday Morning" leaves you in Wyoming's Gros Ventre Wilderness
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We leave you this Sunday before Thanksgiving among wild turkeys near Stonewall, Texas. Videographer: Scot Miller
We leave you this Sunday before Thanksgiving among wild turkeys near Stonewall, Texas. Videographer: Scot Miller
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