America's Best Idea: A Photographic Journey through Our National Parks

This photographic journey through our National Parks takes you on a visual tour of America's most special natural and cultural places. Arranged in chronological order from the year that each park received protection as public land, America's Best Idea provides you with a history of names, dates and designations of all national parks in the United States. This book provides an iconic full-color image of each national park, highlighting the spirit of preservation that became a guiding force in the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. The publisher has donated all copies of America's Best Idea to the Yosemite Association, and net profits from book sales benefit the educational programs of Yosemite National Park.Jorstad, Stan is the author of 'America's Best Idea: A Photographic Journey through Our National Parks', published 2006 under ISBN 9780978710118 and ISBN 0978710118.