The national parks. Last refuge : America's best idea / a Florentine Films production ; a film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns ; WETA.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Burns, Ken, 1953- Director, Producer.

Duncan, Dayton., Producer, Screenwriter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Park Service--History.

United States.

Boone and Crockett Club.

National Audubon Society.

Sierra Club.

National parks and reserves--United States--History.

National parks and reserves.

Nature conservation--United States--History.

Nature conservation.

Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.).

Yosemite National Park (Calif.).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 min.)

Place of Publication:

[Arlington, VA] : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

By the end of the 19th century, widespread industrialization has left many Americans worried about whether the country will have any pristine land left. At the same time, poachers in the parks are rampant, and visitors think nothing of littering or carving their names near iconic sites like Old Faithful. Congress has yet to establish clear judicial authority or appropriations for the protection of the parks. This sparks a conservation movement by organizations such as the Sierra Club, led by John Muir; the Audubon Society, led by George Bird Grinnell; and the Boone and Crockett Club, led by Theodore Roosevelt. The movement fails, however, to stop San Francisco from building the Hetch Hetchy dam at Yosemite, flooding Muir's "mountain temple" and leaving him broken-hearted before he dies.

Participant:

Narrated by Peter Coyote.

Notes:

Originally broadcast as episodes of the television documentary on PBS in 2009.

Title from resource description page (viewed Jun. 17, 2014).

OCLC:

884830962

Publisher Number:

ASP2362499/marc