Happy Birthday National Park Service! Celebrating 103 years!

[Teresa]

Let's be thankful for the national parks we still have and agree that they are incredibly precious to protect and support.

Thanks @Emerald Drifter for the reminder of Ken Burns epic series.

THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea: | PBS

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Looks like Drifter is doing this. If that's not triggered, I don't know what is:

 

[Lake View Too]

Let's be thankful for the national parks we still have and agree that they are incredibly precious to protect and support.

Thanks @Emerald Drifter for the reminder of Ken Burns epic series.

THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea: | PBS

We bought the whole series many years ago. It is truly awesome and definitely America’s Best Idea.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Let's be thankful for the national parks we still have and agree that they are incredibly precious to protect and support.

Thanks @Emerald Drifter for the reminder of Ken Burns epic series.

THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea: | PBS

Thankfully we have the federal government to help manage them.