Writer and producer Dayton Duncan ... also realized that the parks were a perfect topic for us to deal with as filmmakers. I told Ken: "Well, like baseball, like jazz, national parks are an ...

The National ... parks and to engage new and traditionally underserved audiences in the educational richness of the national parks. Accompanying the series is a companion book, written by Dayton ...

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA. Major funding is provided by General Motors, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, CPB, Bank of America, The ...

National parks do more than preserve our nation's natural and cultural heritage; they enrich lives, enhance learning and provide inspiration in an increasingly challenging and complex world.

The national parks represent an idea born in this country, as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most magnificent and sacred places in our nation ...

Meet some of the remarkable individuals whose vision, dedication, sacrifice – and sometimes even obsession – have helped to create America's national parks, and the national park system that ...

Albright, as much as his boss and mentor Stephen Mather, was responsible for molding the national parks into a unified system after the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Stephen ...