Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and others to protect the land.
Learn about the federal agency created to protect the parks.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and World War II
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WW II.
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
Discover efforts to protect the parks and the fight over the Grand Canyon.
Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt and others to preserve pristine lands.
Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.
Introductory clip from THE NATIONAL PARKS: America's Best Idea, a film by Ken Burns.
President Theodore Roosevelt travels to the Grand Canyon.
Ranger Gerard Baker talks about the parks being real America.
Dayton Duncan talks about seeing the lava flow in Hawaii.
Obata discusses Nature and it's impact on his art.
Terry Tempest Williams talks about what the Grand Tetons mean to her.
George Melendez Wright changed how the Park Service preserved wildlife.
Writer Ruth Kirk describes how the Grand Canyon leaves her awestruck.
Explore Yosemite National Park and its early days under President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Civilian Conservation Corp worked on National Parks Service projects under FDR.
Dayton Duncan, talks about the notion that is at the heart of the park idea.
Listen to park ranger, Shelton Johnson, as he discusses his arrival at Yellowstone.
