DOLORES, Colo. - The public is invited to celebrate Earth Day by watching the PBS documentary, “America Revealed" episode “Electric Nation," narrated by Yul Kwon at the Anasazi Heritage Center on Friday April 22, 2016, at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. Admission to the museum and to view the documentary is free.
“The modern electric power grid has been called the biggest and most complex machine in the world - delivering electricity over 200,000 miles of high tension transmission lines," according to the PBS website. “In this third episode of America Revealed, host Kwon travels around the country to understand its intricacies, its vulnerabilities and the remarkable ingenuity required to keep the electricity on every day of the year."
Kwon attended Stanford University and graduated in 1997. He first gained national recognition as the winner of the reality television show Survivor in 2006. Since then, he worked as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman in Washington, D.C., lectured for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was the Deputy Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission.
Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. The first Earth Day had participants and celebrants in 2,000 colleges and universities, roughly 10,000 primary and secondary schools and hundreds of communities across the United States. Earth Day is celebrated in more than 193 countries each year.
The BLM hosts events around the nation in celebration of the vast resources managed for the enjoyment of the public.
For more information, go to http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ahc.html or call 970-882-5600.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
