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Buy Now	Park Profiles: Yellowstone (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 168935 by: Seymour L. Fishbein, Raymond Gehman, National Geographic Society : : Yellowstone country is a living entity composed of a wide variety of animals. Vast forests, two national parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, thundering waterfalls, gurgling hot springs, and more than two-thirds of the world's active geysers lie within one of the most intact ecosystems in the lower 48. Author Seymour L. Fishbein and photographer Raymond Gehman delve into the controversies of the region such as swelling elk herds, grizzly bears that encroach on campsites, logging, mineral exploration, and ranchers' fears of the spread of disease from bison to livestock. Park, forest, and refuge management strive to balance multiple use and preservation ...	Buy Now	Park Profiles: Yosemite (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 152053 by: National Geographic Society : : More than 120 color photographs depict this jewel of the Sierra Nevada. The beauty and the grandeur of Yosemite National Park beckon 4.1 million visitors each year. Some are rock climbers, come to challenge Yosemite's granite. Some, en route to the backcountry, come for solitude. But by far the greatest number come to experience the view from the valley. Author Kenneth Brower details the captivating variety of Yosemite's plants and animals. He chronicles how rivers of ice shaped the valley and relates the saga of the park through its first one hundred years. Despite concerns about crowds of visitors straining park ...
Buy Now	Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 469775 by: National Geographic Society : : Relax. Linger over the national parks you'll visit in this book. Seven maps and 129 photographs will take you there. In the northern Cascade Range in Washington State, you'll hike amid snowy crags and alpine meadows. In Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, you'll cruise among lakes once plied by fur trappers. In the badlands of North Dakota, you'll dodge bison, and off California's coast, you'll discover an isolated wildlife haven in the Channel Islands. In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, you'll explore an exposed portion of a 400-mile-long marine fossil reef. In Florida, you'll snorkel among the coral islands and reefs of ...	Buy Now	Park Profiles: Exploring Canada's Spectacular National Parks (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 377886 by: National Geographic Society : : 120 stunning photographs reveal the treasures of Canada's national park system. 'Gateways to nature, to discovery to solitude, to celebrate the beauty and infinite variety of our land' is how Parks Canada defines the country's more than 35 national parks. In this book, authors and photographers travel to selected parks across Canada. Along the way they visit remarkable ecological niches and meet people long linked to these intriguing places. From the fog-bound Pacific shore at Gwaii Haanas to Newfoundland's Gros Morne along the Atlantic, from Jasper. Banff, and Yoho in the Rocky Mountains, to remote parks in the vast interior plains, ...
Buy Now	Park Profiles: Canyon Country Parklands (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 1043976 by: National Geographic Society : Review:This collection is put together like a National Geographic magazine, with the stories all focusing on the 130,000-square-mile wilderness dubbed 'the Great Unknown' by Major John Wesley Powell in 1869. Now shared by Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, this area includes dazzling mesas and buttes, soaring stone pinnacles and arches, and daunting deep canyons and cliffs. Presented in the magazine's personalized reporting style with National Geographic's infamous color photos, this is a book worth having if you're headed to these parks--or have good memories of a visit there. A 16-page special section covers the diversity of plants and animals in the ...	Buy Now	Park Profiles: Grand Canyon Country (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 155354 by: National Geographic Society : : The Grand Canyon comes to life in more than 100 stunning photographs. From near and far they come, nearly five million each year, to see the Grand Canyon, long cherished as one of the nation's treasures. Grand Canyon Country explores more than the spectacular 277-mile-long gash in Arizona's red-rock country. Author Seymour L. Fishbein takes you to the remote forests of the Kaibab Plateau, the lonely reaches of the Arizona strip, and the multihued landscapes of the Painted Desert. Fishbein probes the intriguing history of canyon country, meets its people, and talks with those who ponder environmental issues and see threats ...
Buy Now	Park Profiles: Blue Ridge Range (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 110311 by: National Geographic Society : : Welcome to the ancient, rumpled realm of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Writer Ron Fisher and photographer Rik Cooke guide you through the gentle mountains that rise in a sky-wash haze from Pensylvania to northern Georgia. The New River, America's oldest stream, flows across the entire range while a 470-mile continuous span of skyline road leads from Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Seven national forests harbor 130 species of trees and an astonishing diversity of mosses, fungi, flowering plants, and wildlife. Meet Cherokee Indians who continue the artistic traditions of their ancestors as well as descendants of European ...	Buy Now	Park Profiles: Our Inviting Eastern Parklands (Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 1403791 by: National Geographic Society : : Discover the amazing variety of our eastern national parks. In the company of National Geographic writers and photographers explore islands of preservation set amid some of the most populated areas of the United States. Meet naturalists and rangers, fishermen and fellow travelers. Journey from the fog-drenched cliffs and teeming tide pools of Acadia in Maine to the glistening saw grass of Florida's Everglades. Go underground at Mammouth Cave. Hike through rhododendrons and mountain laurel for a misty morning view of the Great Smokies, then watch autumn tint Blue Ridge hills and hollows. Dive into the crystal-clear waters of Biscayne, Virgin Islands, ...
Buy Now	Grand Canyon Country (National Geographic Park Profiles) (more) »rank: 1403791 by: National Geographic : : Discover the amazing variety of our eastern national parks. In the company of National Geographic writers and photographers explore islands of preservation set amid some of the most populated areas of the United States. Meet naturalists and rangers, fishermen and fellow travelers. Journey from the fog-drenched cliffs and teeming tide pools of Acadia in Maine to the glistening saw grass of Florida's Everglades. Go underground at Mammouth Cave. Hike through rhododendrons and mountain laurel for a misty morning view of the Great Smokies, then watch autumn tint Blue Ridge hills and hollows. Dive into the crystal-clear waters of Biscayne, Virgin Islands, ...