A National Park Centennial
This year, the National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary. A century ago, the National Park Service was created to promote and protect some of the most beautiful and inspiring places in the country. Now is the perfect time to visit these natural wonders or learn more about their historical significance. The Library has books that can assist you on your next national park adventure.
A Thinking Person's Guide to America's National Parks. A collection of essays that delve into issues affecting America's national parks and historic sites.
The National Parks: An Illustrated History by Kim Heacox. A celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. This volume contains National Geographic photographs and an expertly told history of our National Parks Service.
The Official Guide to America's National Parks. Produced in cooperation with the National Park Foundation, this is the official guide to all 397 sites in the national park system, including natural, historic, and cultural treasures.
Secrets of the National Parks: The Experts’ Guide to the Best Experiences Beyond the Tourist Trail. Find the best National Geographic picks in 32 amazing national parks including Yellowstone's Lamar Valley, the Everglades' Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail and Yosemite's Snow Creek Trail.
Your Guide to the National Parks by Michael Joseph Oswald. A guide to the United States' 58 national parks features detailed maps, images and hiking tables for each site, and offers advice on the best places to bike, camp, hike, lodge, and perform water and winter activities.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea. In this illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly 400 sites and 84 million acres.
Speaking of Bears: The Bear Crisis and a Tale of Rewilding from Yosemite, Sequoia and Other National Parks by Rachel Mazur. A compiled history of how Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks created a human-bear problem so bad that there were eventually over 2,000 incidents in a single year. The book describes the pivotal moments park employees used trial and error, conducted research, invented devices and collaboration to get the crisis under control.
Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks by Michael Lanza. A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and decides to take his children on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit into a year.
The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock and illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein. Offers insight in the camping trip President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
National Parks Guide U.S.A. by Sarah Wassner Flynn and Julie Beer. A guide to America's National Parks for children, including tips on exploration, information about animals and fun facts.
Search and Find National Parks by Maud Lienard. Readers can search for items hidden in illustrations of 12 national parks.
Find this article at http://thelibrary.org/blogs/article.cfm?aid=4351&lid=0