Where To Stream The National Parks America's Best Idea Season 1 Episode 5
Great Nature (1933-1945)
- Aired October 1, 2009
- 120 Min
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. Congress narrowly passes a bill to protect the Everglades in Florida as a national parkāthe first time a park has been created...