The Resource The national parks : America's best idea
The national parks : America's best idea
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The item The national parks : America's best idea represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The national parks : America's best idea represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- In 1851, word spreads across the country of a beautiful area of California's Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wish to exploit the land's scenery for commercial gain and those who wish to keep it pristine. Among the latter is a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir, for whom protecting the land becomes a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passes an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development for "public use, resort and recreation" - the first time in world history that any government has put forth this idea - and hands control of the land to California. Meanwhile, a "wonderland" in the northwest corner of the Wyoming territory attracts visitors to its bizarre landscape of geysers, mud pots and sulfur pits. In 1872, Congress passes an act to protect this land as well. Since it is located in a territory, rather than a state, it becomes America's first national park: Yellowstone
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (6 video files (approximately 750 min.))
- Contents
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- Episode 5
- Great Nature
- Episode 6
- The Morning of Creation
- Episode 1
- The Scripture of Nature
- Episode 2
- The Last Refuge
- Episode 3
- The Empire of Grandeur
- Episode 4
- Going Home
- Label
- The national parks : America's best idea
- Title
- The national parks
- Title remainder
- America's best idea
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1851, word spreads across the country of a beautiful area of California's Yosemite Valley, attracting visitors who wish to exploit the land's scenery for commercial gain and those who wish to keep it pristine. Among the latter is a Scottish-born wanderer named John Muir, for whom protecting the land becomes a spiritual calling. In 1864, Congress passes an act that protects Yosemite from commercial development for "public use, resort and recreation" - the first time in world history that any government has put forth this idea - and hands control of the land to California. Meanwhile, a "wonderland" in the northwest corner of the Wyoming territory attracts visitors to its bizarre landscape of geysers, mud pots and sulfur pits. In 1872, Congress passes an act to protect this land as well. Since it is located in a territory, rather than a state, it becomes America's first national park: Yellowstone
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Dewey number
- 973
- Intended audience
- Rated TVG
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Peter Coyote
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1953-
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Burns, Ken
- Duncan, Dayton
- Squires, Buddy
- Moore, Allen
- Else, Lincoln
- Barnes, Paul
- Mellish, Craig
- Ewers, Erik
- Coyote, Peter
- hoopla digital
- Runtime
- 750
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- National parks and reserves
- Nature conservation
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The national parks : America's best idea
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Episode 5
- Great Nature
- Episode 6
- The Morning of Creation
- Episode 1
- The Scripture of Nature
- Episode 2
- The Last Refuge
- Episode 3
- The Empire of Grandeur
- Episode 4
- Going Home
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (6 video files (approximately 750 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10085647
- Publisher number
- MWT10085647
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- The national parks : America's best idea
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Episode 5
- Great Nature
- Episode 6
- The Morning of Creation
- Episode 1
- The Scripture of Nature
- Episode 2
- The Last Refuge
- Episode 3
- The Empire of Grandeur
- Episode 4
- Going Home
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (6 video files (approximately 750 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10085647
- Publisher number
- MWT10085647
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
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