Great Nature

Back to: The National Parks

Obata discusses Nature and it's impact on his art.

March 8, 2025
11:00PM | WFYI 1 (20.1)
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April 19, 2025
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Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.

Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.

Learn about the federal agency created to protect the parks.

Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and others to protect the land.

Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.

The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.

Dayton Duncan, talks about the notion that is at the heart of the park idea.