National Parks
The American Experience
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Visitors regularly speak of the national parks
as Nature's cathedrals; Easter sunrise services were first offered at Mirror
Lake in Yosemite Valley in 1932.
Courtesy of the National Park Service
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Bert Taylor, United States skating champion, performs
at the Yosemite Winterclub in February 1937. Preservationists protest that an ice rink,
let alone such theatrics, is an amusement more appropriate to big cities and resorts
than to a park set aside to preserve a natural environment.
Courtesy of the National Park Service
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A workman removes debris from Blue Star Spring
while Old Faithful erupts in the background, March 1968. Too many callous
visitors bring too many pop bottles.
William S. Keller photograph, courtesy of the National Park Service
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Grizzlies and gulls hold visitors' fascination
at the bear feeding grounds near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone sometime
during the 1930s. The twilight "shows" were last held in the fall of 1945,
but the question of bears and garbage in Yellowstone is still controversial.
Courtesy of the National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park
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