The National Parks-America's Best Idea

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The documentary “The National Parks- America’s Best Idea” explained the history of national parks and how they came to be. Monuments, battlefields, and military parks were transferred to become national parks. Though they weren’t what they are now at first, they seemed a lot like zoos, focusing on tameness and less on wildness. There is an abundance of life in the national parks, and George Wright tried to let everyone know the equilibrium was out. People were getting in the way of the plants and animals, instead of letting the plants and animals thrive on their own. Each of these species, including the predators should be protected. He saved the trumpeter swans.
Broward’s campaign “Drain the Everglades,” was negative and destroyed much of …show more content…

We must fight against so much corruption, that we don’t seem to be able to make any new strides in national park building. I didn’t know that the US had camps for Japanese citizens during WW2, I’m glad that they got some peace from the national parks.
This documentary was a little slow at times, I do like documentaries, but this one got boring in the middle, around the beginning of part two. It started off well and all the info on George Wright got me curious, but once it pasted that and started just jumping around to different names I got confused and bored. I did get through it, just took me a couple breaks in between.
Three billion trees planted during the Great Depression is so intense. When people complain about there not being enough jobs anymore, why can’t we just do that again? Hopefully, if we do end up in another depression, they will start that up again. “Drain the Everglades” is such a horrible political stance, but if this past election has taught me anything, it is that horrible political stances get the most attention. I wonder if global warming has affected those parts of the Everglades that had been drained, are the infrastructures around the swamp still holding up

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