National Parks
The American Experience
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Death Valley National Monument, proclaimed in 1933,
was to be compromised by extensive inholdings and mineral claims. Legislation
passed in 1976 regulated, but did not abolish outright, such operations as the
stripmine shown below.
Courtesy of the National Park Service (top); Breyne Moskowitz, courtesy of the
National Park Service
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The ruggedness of places like Huggins Hell, pictured above,
was the main argumenet leading to the establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National PArk
in the 1920s, but within a decade visitors were also drawn to the park for its wildlife and
its virgin forests, dominated by giant tulip-poplars like the one shown below.
James E. Thompson photograph, courtesy of the Thompson family (top); James E. Thompson
photograph, courtesy of the National Park Service (bottom)
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