The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 - Eps 6: The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)

Name: Eps 6: The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)
Released: 2009-10-02
Rating: 4.0

2009-10-02 • 120 min • ⭐ 7.9/10

Following World War II, the parks are overwhelmed as visitation reaches 62 million people a year. A new billion-dollar campaign – Mission 66 – is created to build facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate the flood of visitors. A biologist named Adolph Murie introduces the revolutionary notion that predatory animals, which are still hunted, deserve the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, the grandson of a slave, refuses to sell to developers his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay and instead sells it to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter creates an uproar in Alaska when he sets aside 56 million acres of land for preservation – the largest expansion of protected land in history. In 1995, wolves are re-established in Yellowstone, making the world's first national park a little more like what it once was.

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About The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Title: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

First Air Date: 2009-09-27

Last Air Date: 2009-10-02

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.9/10 (from 22 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 6

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Florentine Films

Synopsis

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.