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Great Nature (1933-1945)

Season 1 Episode 5 | 1hr 55m 41s

To battle unemployment in the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Civilian Conservation Corps, which spawns a “golden age” for the parks through major renovation projects. In a groundbreaking study, a young NPS biologist named George Melendez Wright discovers widespread abuses of animal habitats and pushes the service to reform its wildlife policies.

Aired: 04/24/16
Major funding is provided by General Motors, Evelyn & Walter Haas,Jr. Fund, CPB; Bank of America; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Park Foundation, Inc; PBS; National Park Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Extras
Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Learn about the changes to the national parks during the Great Depression and WW II.
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
Discover efforts to protect the parks and the fight over the Grand Canyon.
Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt and others to preserve pristine lands.
Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.
The story of an idea as American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical.
Examine the proliferation of protected lands and the protection of predatory animals.
Encounter the growing numbers of visitors to the parks.
Learn about the federal agency created to protect the parks.
Investigate the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and others to protect the land.
Examine the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone.