The National Parks : Episode 5 - Great Nature
(2015, original release: 2009)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1137134
LANGUAGE
English
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To battle unemployment in the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Civilian Conservation Corps, which spawns a "golden age" for the parks through major renovation projects. In a groundbreaking study, a young NPS biologist named George Melendez Wright discovers widespread abuses of animal habitats and pushes the service to reform its wildlife policies. Congress narrowly passes a bill to protect the Everglades in Florida as a national park – the first time a park has been created solely to preserve an ecosystem, as opposed to scenic beauty. As America becomes entrenched in World War II, Roosevelt is pressured to open the parks to mining, grazing and lumbering. The president also is subjected to a storm of criticism for expanding the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming by accepting a gift of land secretly purchased by John D. Rockefeller Jr

Originally produced by PBS in 2009

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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