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#1
S1E2 8.6
The Last Refuge

Americans begin to question the nation's rush across the continent that has devastated forests and ravaged animals. Conservation's greatest champion is Theodore Roosevelt, who sets aside 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon.

#2
S1E1 8.5
The Scripture of Nature

A study of the first ideas which led to the establishment of America's national parks, with an emphasis on the work of John Muir and the exploration and preservation of Yosemite and Yellowstone.

#3
S1E3 8.5
The Empire of Grandeur

Stephen Mather accepts the offer to oversee the national parks for one year. He launches a campaign to publicize the parks as a unified system and to persuade Congress to create a single agency to oversee it: the National Park Service.

#4 Going Home S1E4 8.5
#5 The Morning of Creation S1E6 8.5
#6 Great Nature S1E5 8.4

Lowlights

#6 S1E5 Great Nature 8.4

Franklin D. Roosevelt enters battles to create national parks on the Olympic Peninsula, Florida's Everglades, and California's High Sierra. George Melendez Wright begins arguing that the parks are not doing enough to protect wildlife.

#5 The Morning of Creation S1E6 8.5
#4 Going Home S1E4 8.5
#3 The Empire of Grandeur S1E3 8.5
#2 The Scripture of Nature S1E1 8.5

The Quality Arc

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