National Parks
The American Experience
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A prescribed burn to remove competitive vegetation among
the Giant Sequoias in Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, September 1980,
contrasts sharply with the principles of total protection generally followed by the
National Park Service before the introduction of fire ecology during the late 1960s and
1970s.
Photograph by William Tweed, courtesy of the National Park Service, Sequoia
National Park
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As secretary of the interior between 1981 and
1983. James Watt drew fire from environmentalists for his outspoken opposition
to national park expansion and inspired literally hundreds of political cartoons.
Watt is shown at Yellowstone National Park, September 1981.
Photograph by William S. Keller, courtesy of the National Park Service
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David Horsey depicts him as a serpent in a
national park Garden of Eden.
Courtesy of David Horsey and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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