Uncover the diverse plant and animal life that thrives in Bryce Canyon's unique high-elevation environment.
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Where Elevation Shapes Everything Alive
This series, Life on the Plateau, explores how Bryce Canyon's extreme elevation creates one of the most distinctive ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau.
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Ancient Survivors on the Canyon Rim
Some of the oldest living things on Earth cling to the rocky margins of this plateau.
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Wildflowers Thriving in Unlikely Rocky Ground
Rocky Mountain paintbrush has a secret — it's semi-parasitic, tapping into the root systems of neighboring plants to steal water and nutrients.
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Sixty Mammals Among the Hoodoos
Yellow-bellied marmots sun themselves on the same pink limestone formations that took millions of years to erode into hoodoos.
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Water Carved This Desert Into Existence
Every crack in every hoodoo exists because of water.
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Microclimates Hidden Between the Hoodoos
A single walk across Bryce Canyon can cross temperature differences of forty degrees.
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