Where To Stream The National Parks America's Best Idea Season 1 Episode 3
The Empire of Grandeur (1915-1919)
- Aired September 29, 2009
- 120 Min
In the early 20th century, America has a dozen national parks, but they are a haphazard patchwork of special places under the supervision of different federal agencies. After failing to stop the Hetch Hetchy dam, the conservation movement pushes the government to establish one unified agency to oversee all the parks, leading to the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916. Its first director, Stephen Mather, a wealthy businessman and passionate park advocate who fought vigorously to...