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America's Best Idea Today. In National Parks And In Your Neighborhood.

Voices of America’s Best Idea

Watch and listen as those who make America's Best Idea possible tell their stories - in their own voices..

Smiling park ranger

Sam Holbrook
Park Ranger, Yellowstone

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Woman with glasses

Bootsie Neal
President, Wright-Dunbar, Inc.

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Kawther Elmi
Park Ranger, Lincoln Memorial

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smiling man with cap and glasses

Neil Adams
Volunteer

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Secretary Ken Salazar with U.S. Flag

Secretary of the Interior
With Ken Burns and others

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Evolution of an Idea.

Explore a timeline of America’s Best Idea, from 1872 to the present.

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