The National Parks: America's Best Idea - Season 1 Episode 6 The Morning of Creation (1946-1980)
Following World War II, the parks are overwhelmed as visitation reaches 62 million people a year. A new billion-dollar campaign – Mission 66 – is created to build facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate the flood of visitors. A biologist named Adolph Murie introduces the revolutionary notion that predatory animals, which are still hunted, deserve the same protection as other wildlife. In Florida, Lancelot Jones, the grandson of a slave, refuses to sell to developers his family's property on a string of unspoiled islands in Biscayne Bay and instead sells it to the federal government to be protected as a national monument. In the late 1970s, President Jimmy Carter creates an uproar in Alaska when he sets aside 56 million acres of land for preservation – the largest expansion of protected land in history. In 1995, wolves are re-established in Yellowstone, making the world's first national park a little more like what it once was.
Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
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Studio: PBS
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Cast: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Peter Coyote, Amy Madigan, Tom Hanks, Murphy Guyer
Crew: Ken Burns (Director), Ken Burns (Producer), Julie A. Dunfey (Producer), Dayton Duncan (Writer)
First Air Date: Sep 27, 2009
Last Air date: Oct 02, 2009
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 120 minutes
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 19.00 users
Popularity: 7.3615
Language: English
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