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Clip: Season 1 | 3m 50s
George Melendez Wright changed how the Park Service preserved wildlife.
Aired: 09/27/09
Video has closed captioning.Major funding is provided by General Motors, Evelyn & Walter Haas,Jr. Fund, CPB; Bank of America; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Park Foundation, Inc; PBS; National Park Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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