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Ken Burns’ "The National Parks: America’s Best Idea" brings national parks to the screen

Before the national forests were designated, before the interstates were even a glimmer in the mind’s eye, Congress started making national parks.

Their creation, Ken Burns relates in his latest blockbuster documentary, "The National Parks: America’s Best Idea," http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/ was a triumph of democracy. It secured forever and for everyone some of the continent’s natural jewels – Yellowstone’s otherworldly geysers, Yosemite’s granite towers, the Grand Canyon’s endless depths.

And as the nation and its ethic evolved, so has the park system. It now has sites marking Indian massacres carried out by soldiers under the same government that designated the first parks. Large predators such as wolves and grizzly bears, once trapped and shot to near-extermination across the nation, now thrive in places such as Yellowstone, Glacier and Grand Teton national parks.

By MATTHEW BROWN of the Associated Press

Full story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/02/03/bnews/br67.txt

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