Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Views of selected Colorado wildlife from all ecological zones.

Protecting intellectual property rights allows a breeding entity to analyze their return on investment in developing new and improved varieties or characteristics. It ensures that something they spend research capital on provides them with revenue to continue to breed new products to meet the market needs and profit from the investments and risks they have made. Without these protections there is no reason to invest or innovate.

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.

Through the ages, man has depended on plants for everything from oxygen to food to building supplies. Gives a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora - from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.

In this musical, business booms at Mushnik's Flower Shop when an exotic potted plant called Audrey II arrives. People are rushing in to see it--and disappearing.

In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. It combines on-the-spot reporting, personal stories, compelling eyewitness videos, and exclusive helicopter footage for a unique look at the science behind the catastrophe.

"Director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can't gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his family's table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of...

A documentary chronicles a rural mining community where a proposed uranium mill, the first to be built in the U.S. in 25 years, is creating a raging debate that is tearing the community apart. With authentic voices, the film's characters tell personal stories about life and death in a boom-bust mining town. And now, with the future of nuclear energy being questioned worldwide, there's even more at stake.

Numen, defined as the animating force in nature, is a 95-minute documentary film focusing on the healing power of plants and the natural world. A primary objective of Numen is to bring the same awareness to medicine and the medical industry that the organic food movement has brought to food and the food industry. The film presents a sobering view of conventional healthcare and the dangers of environmental insults, as well as a vision of safe, effective...

The Treeschoolers learn how seeds turn into plants and how plants produce flowers.