| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 114 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
|
digital |
|
video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by PBS in 2009. |
| Summary |
Following World War II, the parks are overwhelmed as visitation reaches 62 million people a year. A new billion-dollar campaign – Mission 66 – is created to build facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate the flood of visitors. A biologist named Adolph Murie introduces the revolutionary notion that predatory animals, which are still hunted, deserve the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, the grandson of a slave, refuses to sell to developers his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay and instead sells it to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter creates an uproar in Alaska when he sets aside 56 million acres of land for preservation – the largest expansion of protected land in history. In 1995, wolves are re-established in Yellowstone, making the world's first national park a little more like what it once was. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
United States -- National Park Service -- History.
|
|
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
|
|
Nature conservation -- United States -- History.
|
| Genre |
Documentary films.
|
| Added Author |
Burns, Ken, director.
|
|
Coyote, Pate, narrator.
|
|
Kanopy (Firm)
|
| Music No. |
1137136 Kanopy |
|
More Resources