television show, Arizona Wildlife Views, won three Emmy awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences this past Saturday, Sept. 10, at an awards ceremony in Phoenix.

"We are really proud of Arizona Wildlife Views and its staff. We have great stories to tell about the people at the Game and Fish Department, who always put their hearts and souls into their work. Videotaping their conservation activities and efforts makes our job rewarding and very valuable," says Game and Fish Department employee and show host Chuck Emmert.

Arizona Wildlife Views won in the public affairs program category for a show entitled "They Almost Got Away." It features in-depth segments on three subjects: the return to Arizona of the endangered California condor, the Arizona reintroduction of the endangered black-footed ferret, and a herd of bighorn sheep in the Silver Bell Mountains that biologists saved from a deadly eye disease. All three producers - Carol Lynde, Gary Schafer and Chuck Emmert -- took home Emmy awards.

The show won in the program element category for a segment entitled "As Curious as a Raven," also about the California condor and produced by Chuck Emmert and Chris Parish from The Peregrine Fund, an organization that works nationally and internationally to conserve birds of prey.

Arizona Wildlife Views came out on top in the lighting location category for a segment called "Legends of the Owl," also produced by Gary Schafer.

Arizona Wildlife Views made its 2005 season debut on local PBS station KAET-TV, channel 8 in the Phoenix television market, last week. It airs Tuesday's at 7:30 p.m. In Tucson, the show makes its season debut Sunday, Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. on PBS station KUAT-TV, channel 6.

"We trek with our gear into the most remote parts of Arizona, take unbelievable video of magnificent wild animals doing things you may have no idea they do, in locations you've most likely never seen before. Then we bring the footage home for your family to enjoy. It's totally exciting," says Carol Lynde.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. 

For more information about this year's Arizona Wildlife Views show line-up, click here.