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

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

S1 · E6 — The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)

S1:E6 · The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)

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6 episodes in this season

The Scripture of Nature (1851 – 1890)

114 min

The Last Refuge (1890 – 1915)

131 min

The Empire of Grandeur (1915 – 1919)

111 min

Going Home (1920 – 1933)

115 min

Great Nature (1933 – 1945)

114 min

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

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The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Oct 2, 2009

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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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

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20091h 54m7.9

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The Morning of Creation (1946 – 1980)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Oct 2, 2009

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