Sep 27, 2009
A study of the first ideas which led to the establishment of America's national parks, with an emphasis on the work of John Muir and the exploration and preservation of Yosemite and Yellowstone.
Sep 28, 2009
Americans begin to question the nation's rush across the continent that has devastated forests and ravaged animals. Conservation's greatest champion is Theodore Roosevelt, who audaciously sets aside 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon.
Sep 29, 2009
Stephen Mather accepts the offer to oversee the national parks for one year. He launches a campaign to publicize the parks as a unified system and to persuade Congress to create a single agency to oversee it: the National Park Service.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Season 1 (2009) is released on Sep 27, 2009. Watch The National Parks: America's Best Idea online - the English Documentary TV series from United States. The National Parks: America's Best Idea is directed by Ken Burns and created by Dayton Duncan with Peter Coyote and William Cronon. The National Parks: America's Best Idea is available online on Hoopla and Amazon Video.
