"In America, magnificence is a common treasure.... We own together the most magnificent places on the continent." Carl Pope - The Sierra Club In 1872 the United States Government created the first National Park on the globe: Yellowstone National Park. Ken Burns has created a new series of documentary films, The National Parks - America's Best Idea , that celebrates this landmark achievement. Thomas Moran Yellowstone watercolor on paper from Ken Burns' The National Parks - America's Best Idea The first installment in the series, The Scripture of Nature , tells the history of Yellowstone and the inspiration for a National Parks system that sprung out of the collection of "artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and tourists" that found beauty and worth in the stunning natural world of Yosemite in California and Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley oil on canvas from Ken Burns' The National Parks - America's Best Id...
