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Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
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Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
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Discover efforts to protect the parks and the fight over the Grand Canyon.
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Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WW II.
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The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.
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Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.
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Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt and others to preserve pristine lands.
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Explore Yosemite National Park and its early days under President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Writer Ruth Kirk describes how the Grand Canyon leaves her awestruck.
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George Melendez Wright changed how the Park Service preserved wildlife.
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Listen to park ranger, Shelton Johnson, as he discusses his arrival at Yellowstone.
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Writer Dayton Duncan talks about the notion that is at the heart of the park idea.
