The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Part 6: The Morning of Creation

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Following World War II, the parks were overwhelmed as visitation reached 62 million people a year. This final episode describes how a billion-dollar campaign, Mission 66, was created to build facilities and infrastructure to accommodate the growing flood of visitors. Biologist Adolph Murie introduced the revolutionary notion that predatory animals deserved the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, grandson of a slave, sold his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. During the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter set aside 56 million acres in Alaska for preservation - the largest expansion of protected land in history
On Wolves (1:21)
Majestic Untamed Land (1:58)
National Parks as America's Conscience (3:23)
Landscapes of Childhood for Many Americans (2:23)
"Like Being in Heaven" (3:20)
Ecology of the Coyote in the Yellowstone (2:51)
Wolves (2:36)
Murie's Landmark Wolf Study (2:55)
Wolf Control Program (1:47)
Hetch Hetchy (1:57)
Echo Park Dam Project (2:14)
Crusade to Save Echo Park (3:59)
America's Conservation Movement is Born (1:59)
Loved to Death (2:11)
Mission 66 (3:33)
American Rite of Passage (5:42)
Redwood National Park (2:20)
Udall's Parks (2:02)
Protecting Wild Spaces (0:57)
Park Service's Role in Preserving American History (2:27)
March on Washington August 28, 1963 (2:44)
Dr. King in National Park History (1:25)
Mission 66 Comes to Mt. McKinley (3:19)
Mt. McKinley Road Controversy (2:50)
Yosemite Firefall (1:12)
Yellowstone's Bears (1:36)
Biscayne Bay (2:09)
Islandia (4:20)
Biscayne National Monument Created (3:10)
Excerpt from Wallace Stegner Essay (1:06)
America's Greatest Export (2:44)
Alaska - Last Chance to Do it Right (2:40)
President Carter Signs Orders Creating Alaska Monuments (2:44)
Reaction to Carter's Proclamation (2:44)
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (3:52)
Seward Alaska Residents and Natives (3:22)
Mt. McKinley National Park Becomes Denali National Park (3:17)
From Inner City Kid to Park Ranger (1:37)
Parks as Monuments to History (2:42)
Ah. This is America (3:42)
Wolves Return to Yellowstone (4:08)
Credits & Sponsors: The National Parks: America's Best Idea: A Film by Ken Burns Part 6, The Morning of Creation (1946-1980) (3:39)

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