in a way that most of us have grown up with parks in cities and national parks to go visit. they're kind of part of our culture now, but that's fairly recent. public parks are a novel intention, they evolved during the 1800 essentially out of both the admiration of wealthy estates, private estates in england where there would be sort of, oh, what's the tv show? the um -- "downton abbey." yes, thank you. i always forget words. very "downton abbey"esque. you have this huge estate with rolling hills and people strolling about, but most people couldn't visit those estates. they were privately owned by individual families. with an admiration for those kind of spaces, but here in the u.s., this idea that we wanted that space to be more democratic, to be more open to the public rather than just private. they also evolved in some ways from using certain public spaces like cemeteries very informally for going for an afternoon walk. it seems odd to us now this you would sort of go strolling in a cemetery. they seem much more formal now. but back in the 1800s, especially in the 1830s th

the forests of the tying national park have also shrunk a lot and much has changed in the surrounding villages the villages still have their forest but they can no longer live from it some of the park rangers approaches turned gamekeeper. in the hot humid rain forest the sea cutters are joining their instruments in preparation for the jungle concert the other choice begun by just three or four individuals each insect has a pair of membranes on its abdomen which can vibrate making a loud high pitched drown. these early on and climbing plants which use the trunks of trees to grow up to the light once they reach the tree tops they grow back down again in free fall that stems harder woody know swinging from tree to tree on these . two biologists the tiny is a dense rain forest with jungle concert the other choice begun by just three or four individuals. each insect has a pair of membranes on its abdomen which can vibrate making a loud high pitched drone. these are liana's climbing plants which use the trunks of trees to grow up to the light once they reach the tree tops they grow back dow

a national park three thousand five hundred square kilometers in the western part of the ivory coast. these ivorians are going to show us. what they call their forest belongs in a way to all of us and that's why you know scott has declared it a world heritage site as a last remnant of the great jungle that once covered all of west africa. through the tight national park from the reddish brown waters of the river hunted by the time it gets the water has passed through miles of plantations absorbing all the fashion lies and other chemicals involved in modern agriculture the national parks acts like a filter. i've . it's the rainy season and the temperature is thirty five degrees celsius relative humidity is ninety seven percent and not of the water is taken up by the tree the trees return it to the atmosphere and the wind carries it off to the north to the cyan. but the tiny a none cannot provide this vast area of savannah with rain rainfall in neighboring mali has declined drastically since forest clearing began in the ivory coast. the forests of the tyee national park have also shrunk

historic park as a unit of the national park system. it sets the boundaries of the park as depicted on the map laid out by the park service and gives the secretary of the interior certain authorities within the boundary of the -- boundaries of the historic park or any nationally significant property identified in the special resource study. in order for the resources of ste. genevieve to be properly preserved, park service management is necessary. the work of local nonprofits, the city of ste. genevieve, and the state of missouri to manage preserve and showcase these historic structures cannot be understated. however, there are still unmet needs for resources, protection, and interpretation and the community looks forward to working with the park service to increase tourism in the area as well as properly preserve and study the town's resources. once again, i want to highlight and thank the community of ste. genevieve for their strong support of this bill and i urge the body to swiftly pass my bill and move to one step closer to the pres

patrolling the bindery of the national park today takes power and his team to the site of the landslide where one of their guard posts once stood. a year before the disaster it was burnt down by angry locals determined to build houses in the area. mistaken the lawyer but make you feel see the only one here is you come here look at it what i see is not the top i'm imagining what is under and so many people perished here we're actually standing on top of it was a basically because it was literally missile to be released like a lot of the of the people the problem was not cost here the problem was caused by the ground that you can see this landscape a lot of rock when you have this rock you have little soil in there and is the trees that's where the roots are spreading into these areas around the rocks and that is holding everything together and once you cut the tree basically the root system dice that means there is nothing holding these rocks again soil is already lose it's becoming like dust and once you have the heavy downpours and it's all based basically taking it away then the rocks

alcatraz deserves a first-class gateway as a national park and a national historic landmark, and very is what this project does. we encourage you to give a positive review to this significant project, a project that improves the city's waterfront, that serves millions of visitors each year to our city and provides economic benefits to the city of san francisco. thank you very much for your time in considering this. thank you. >> thank you. any additional public comment in considering this item? welcome. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is vickie nichols. i'm a 35 year plus sausalito resident. i wasn't going to speak, but since proponents spoke, i thought i'd need to speak myself. i agree with the city's evaluation of this. i think that -- and i have great respect for the park service. i sat on numerous boards. we work with them all the time. i think you're hearing that they don't have the funds to do this project right away, so i don't see what it would be delaying to get the information you need. i initially read all the documents from the first go around, the first letter,

the national park is in the south of the forest. yet it's allowed to grow as nature intended without human intervention. there are daily guided tours through the national park. human if anyone doesn't understand my original lower in the very end dialects please let me know this is all in. the box credo is to let nature of being nature and bring it closer to people like in the viewing shelters. that you can observe animals like links that vanished long ago but have now been reintroduced. live here as well and even elk. for the fear of many thrilled we were lucky enough to see a lynx right up close and. it was fantastic to be able to watch them without disturbing the net and we're. outside the national park the very end forest is power. for winter sports as the mountain range gets lots of snow in the winter at nearly fifteen hundred meters great auburn mountain is the king of the forest here you'll find the region's largest ski area. it's a good lot of them back to it. the bavarian forest is especially popular with families tourism is

there are daily guided tours through the national park facing the human if anyone doesn't understand my original lower in the very end dialects please let me know the value. of. the parks credo is to let nature being nature and bring it closer to people like in the viewing shelters. that you can observe animals like links that vanished long ago but have now been reintroduced. live here as well and even elk. the three of them if you really really lucky enough to see a lynx right up close and. it was fantastic to be able to watch them without disturbing minutes and were. outside the national park but the very end foresters power. for winter sports as the mountain range gets lots of snow in the winter at nearly fifteen hundred meters great amount in is the king of the forest here you'll find the region's largest ski area. will. be it's a good lot of them back to it. the bavarian forest is especially popular with families tourism is one of the main sources of income for the region's inhabitants in the past it was mainly the timber and gas industries. to honor that the town of the season f

and i think we might also have a representative, brian avila from national park service and he may want to make a few remarks as well. thank you. >> hello. nice to see you. before my retirement, i was the chief of cultural resources at golden gate national recreation area as literally the last act, on the last day of my career, i submitted the finding of a fact letter on this project through the preservation office. we found that there was -- our finding was no adverse effect and that was concurred with by the shipment about a month later. this project will retain the current alcatraz ferry embarkation site but it is intended to improve the existing facility, by making -- by replacing the existing single dock and gangway with two parallel floating, dos and a third berth which would increase the site's operational capacity and provide tum for that limited ferry service for fort baker, being another important part of our national park next door. pier 31 and pier 33 south bulkhead buildings on the embarkadero and the marginal wharf in between to provide a higher quality interpretation and

pair of snowshoes and you can go exploring off the beaten path a ranger from the high tower a national park will serve as your guide. the park was founded by a local industrialist who acquired some land around the gross lochner in one nine hundred eighteen. he later donated the land to the alpine club on condition that to preserve the area. grew this belittling in blue. because the end of the line on the south side of the valley from here you've got to go in the foot that's all the best thing about the national park is that it allows us to preserve some animal species that have died out elsewhere in the alpine region or the shoreline i was given at that one and. i don't. think snowshoe hikers can observe wild animals including alpine events. golden eagles. and in spring marmots come out of hibernation. to cable railways carry visitors to just under the three thousand meter level from there you can ski down into the valley. open binding skis are a popular trend this year. that you could even trail head through the open bindings give you more freedom of movement it's more natural previous lik

the national parks service supports keeping the national park service 'em brkation port where it is and we've worked several years closely with the port faf to make this a reality. -- to and from alcatraz island, pier 31 1/2, we heard earlier discussion about experiences and that is certainly one of the highlights here. it's unfortunate that we do have this disagreement with the city of sausalito, who is a long-standing partner to the park, who we've worked with for many, many years, and this is around this proposal to send two boats from pier 31 1/2 to frisk in the future. the goal for the limited fort baker service is to provide an alternative transit option that would allow some visitors to avoid driving to fort baker. our plans and our contract documents would limit the fort baker ferries to weekend service as i mentioned and carrie no more than 40,000 visitors over the entire year. the national parks service did complete an environmental impact statement under the national environmental policy act that analyzed limited ferry service to fort baker. the project considered significant

but the national park service being the presiding agency. they did not go on camera to talk to us today about any of the details. they just confirmed the facts we reported this afternoon. as soon as we have more information, we'll bring it to you. sam brock, "nbc bay area news." >> on this presidents' day, gun control activists staged a lie-in at the white house. they want stronger gun laws. you can see them there lying down. so many of the students also who survived the valentine's day attack in florida, well, today students from neighboring high schools joined them in a protest. their message to state and federal leaders is that change must happen. accused gunman nikolas cruz made a brief court appearance today. the family who took in cruz when his mother died tells nbc news they didn't believe that he was dangerous. >> i'm not afraid of guns. i respect guns. but part of the stipulation with him moving in is he had to get a gun safe, and he did. and i thought at that time that i had the only key to the gun safe. >> as it turns out, he had

. >> those private excursions into national parks shape -- the buffalo soldiers patrolled the parks, protected early visitors and began building. >> and they built roads and they built fences and they really began the infrastructure of the fas national parks. >> reporter: to mark those aschooechlts, penn has teamedead with john templeton to mark the buffalo solders trail in california. and an interactive online guide to mark the route that soldiers would have taken to the presidio. nearly 400 buffalo soldiers are buried in presidio cemetery. their names are carved in stone. but as the years pass, pen templeton believe it's time to sew these buffalo soldiers into the history. >> the fact that african-american soldiers played such an integral part in the beginning of the national parks, there are so many layers to american history and that we need to know the full story. >> senator harris's resolution on buffalo soldiers was co-sponsored by 20 other senators of both parties. >>> i want to show you apple's according to the website market watch, there are a half dozen understand dents wh

and when she died, this was not given over to the national park service as fdr's home was.er son, john, was living here at the time of her death in the stone cottage. by then, nancy cook and miriam dickerman had moved away. he decided to sell val-kill. it offered to the national park service and the federal government in 1970 and they were not interested. so we sold the property and he sold eleanor roosevelt's furniture at public auction. it was in 1975 that a grassroots movement here in hyde park started the movement to save val-kill and make it into a national historic site. eleanor roosevelt's story is not just the story of a first lady, but it's a woman activist who really devoted her life to improving the world. she had always hoped that there would be world peace someday. she's really an inspiration to women, because she was a woman of great courage, who spoke out against issues that really needed to be addressed, like civil rights. and she made a difference in the world, and she is such an incredible role model for women, even today. she was a woman who was way ahead

sudan's military is alleged to have murdered six rangers in chad's zakouma national park in 2012. utson: that murder was accomplished by a joint force of the sudan armed forces and the sudan central reserve police unit known as abu tera. the park rangers, being good muslims, went out to pray one morning at sunrise, and this joint force execututed them in a an infantry style. narrator: the rangers in zakouma are among the 100 or so rangers killed protecting elephants in africa each year. vira: these guys put their lives on the line, and many of them, until very recently, were operating with, you know, broken down rifles, no pensions, no mechanisms, no clear mechanisms in place to take care of your family if the primary breadwinner dies. shelley: terrorists are operatining as businessmen these days, and they are s seizing targets of opportunity. narrator: al qaeda affiliate al shabaab is an example. kalron: al shabaab is built out of former warlords. their profession is trafficking. if it's not in ivory, then it's inin weapopons, in narcotics,, inin fuel, in goods,s, in timbe, in cha

coast guard facilities were damaged 1.65 billion for the sba loans the national park service i was at the everglades and now there could be construction to repair the historic facility from the national park service. funding for the department of transportation $140,000,000.8 million faa facilities 100 million just for florida 27-mil -- million for the florida transit administration and also the disaster relief to meet theee unmet needs to make sure they will assist disaster survivors as well as repair or restore services in florida and puerto rico. i hope we can get support for this.om i saw the senator from texas i imagine he may speak to that at some point if not today also texas has suffered in california has has fires it took longer than we wanted but the people of florida should be very pleased with the disaster relief package that the senate is about to present and hopefully will pass in the house. this is good news. i'm grateful to be a part of it and to think my staff who has been incredibly hard one -- worked very hard and we are excited it makes our service meaningful when

currently, she's a park ranger at the national historic park in sin hmric w2007. her new book chronicles herre rkable life. and bettysuch a pleasure to re. >> thank you very much. >> you're a ranger at the rosy thete ri national park. you graduated from oakland in 1942. whatoid you after that during the 'forts? >> among thein t i did do was work at the union hall during world war >> it was segregated at the time. >>yes, at that time. that would have been before the labor movement. so i worked there. all of the black workers were put in thoseio , and they paid dues, but they had no power, >> the image of rosy the riveter in denim, ships, doing this work, it was always the image of a white ouwoman. did identify with that? >> no, i never did. because i never did see a ship being launched. >> you weren't allowed noto. >> the union hall where i worked was in the city of the hall, nowhere near the ed that whole part of the home front story esce at time. >> so why did you decide to gecome a park ranger at the of 85? because that was not your story. >> yeah. i never did d

the national park service. i toured the everglades. this has $207.6 million worth ofh construction for repairs on the destroyed facilities by the national park service. funding under theri department of transportation, $140 billioncl for florida. that includes 8 million for fa a facilities. 100million for florida for the highway administration. 27million for florida transit administration. and under fema, theo disaster relief fund will make sure fema has the release support needed to prepare and respec restore damage in florida and puerto rico. i just hope that we can get support for this. : suffered terribly, virgin islands suffered, california has had the fires. but i would say that it took longer than we wanted to. but i think the people of florida should be very pleased with the disaster relief package that the senate is about to present and hopefully will pass and pass in the house and this is good news. and i was grateful to be a part of it. i want to thank my staff that work incredibly hard to help advance this and we've been wa

and little by little, we just began to patch what became several new national parks together. >> reporteru.s. nationals were an unusual mix of powerful magnates, and passionate conservationists. he was an avid outdoorsman. the founder of apparel behemoth north face, and esprit, she the chief executive of outdoor clothing brand patagonia. >> there was a lot of skepticism about it. because, we are two foreigners buying up large tracts of land, saying it was for conservation, and eventually to create a national park, but we just felt like if we keep going, and do those things we said we were going to do, that eventually, the skepticism and the negativity would pass to the side. >> reporter: despite resistance to what some viewed as an infringement on local businesses, the tompkins' plan came to fruition last month. sadly, doug tompkins could not be there to witness it. he died in a kayaking accident in his beloved chile in 2015. >> i think in some ways, this big, audacious vision of doug's to create these new national parks was the thing that probably kept me in one piece when he died so sud

caught on camera in the road forests of nigeria's largest national park, red river halts, and nocturnals and the jenot. this visitors like the nocturnal cats and thejenot. this is home to some of africa's most endangered animals and conservationists are using hidden cameras to monitor them. you go through a loss of camera images. it can be quite a tedious process. leaves blowing in b wins, orjust noises, you don't see a great deal, and then you will get something like and then you will get something like a golden cat. you when it does not quite shot are in sight, but there they are in full detail. just about is working with the local rangers to help protect the wildlife. the park is the stronghold for a red chimpanzee found only in nigeria and neighbouring cameroon. —— rare chimpanzee. with only a few thousand left the wild, these images brace hopes that the great ape can escape extinction. scientists from king's college london have discovered it's notjust what people eat that has an impact on tooth erosion, but also how and when certain foods are eaten. they found snacking on anything

that literally is part of the founding legislation for the national park service which was written and passed by congress in 1916. the park service just had their centennial last year, lots of hoopla. and so you can see that their fundamental purpose is to conserve scenery and provide for the enjoyment as well as leave it unimpaired. the impression you get from this language is that parks are unimpaired and staying the same through generations in time. so what i'm going to sort of, what my research has focused on for years and that unchangingness that's hiding

it is co-managed by the maryland and national park service. it is located on a maryland state park called harriet tubman underground railroad state park. our administrative offices are on the other side of the park and house the national park service and the network to freedom. the national park service owns 488 acres of land in madison. that land is also managed from that administrative office over there. we are a partnership park. i think anyone should visit the center to build a connection to harriet tubman and her life. i want people to know that she was just a normal person. she wasn't a superhero with a cape and these amazing powers. she was a regular woman that was born into slavery. she remained illiterate for all of her life but she did amazing things for her family and friends. she had everything against her and lived this amazing life and made a difference. i want people to know you can make a difference in your normal life no matter who you are. >>> here's what's coming up. a look at the drafting of the u.s. constitution and the he

is supporting a scheme to turn appear in national park interest ski resort activists say those behind the development are offshore companies involved in tax avoidance largely with force. european skiers enjoying the winter sunshine in the results have been scoped may or may not know there was a unesco world heritage sites the beautiful ancient forest here supposedly protected by bulgarian and international environmental laws the plans to expand the skiing area by cutting down far more of the forests has been enthusiastic lee backed by the government is economically lucrative but condemned by environmentalists as the rate of nature some of the trees are a thousand years old the bears and the wolves could lose their habitats if we allow this to happen in the national park then these skiing projects can start in all our national parks we only have three plus in our nature park so we will open the pandora box and this will be the end of protected areas in the area. it's as much about how controversial it is the protests against the scheme of being held in cities all over europe and beyond

the nation's oldest park ranger was born in 1921. during world war ii, she was a file clerkafelping can-american workers, witnessed the civil rights movement, and helped create a record store in berkeley that still stands today. currently, she's a park ranger at the national historicark in richmond, where she's worked since 2007. her new book chronicles her remarkable life. abetty, such a pleasure to her. >> thank you very much. >> you're a ranger at the rosy the riveter national park. you graduated from oakland in 1942. what did you do after that during the 'forts? >> among the things i did do was work at the union hall during world war >> it was sregated at the time. >>yes, at that time. that would have been t befo labor movement. so i worked there. all of the black workers were put in those unions, and they paid du, but they had no power, >> the image of rosy the riveter in denim, muscles, welding ships, doing this work, it was always the image of a white woman did you identify with that? >> no, i never did. because i never did se

drawing. >> over time his snow shoes took him on artistic trek on palettes around the world from national parkin in utah and here in minnesota the city welcoming back an umpire winter festival the great northern. ice carving. curling. but the big ticket item is beck's 276th drawing. >> overall i think it's pretty good. should get a reasonable result today. >> he's always wanted to filet stadium this is his first. target field. >> this is engineer's drawing cut down to the grass area to give an idea of the scale of the drawing. go out here in straight line. that red cone in. >> he secures his snow shoes for beck his painter's brush and begins. >> going to go anti clockwise. got to step over. after 275 draws still feels like the first time. >> the precision worked almost meditative the him of the city slowly dimming against the cadence of his step. >> never seen an artist create like simon using his physical self to use a beautiful shape emerge in the snow but he does it using his body. definitely surprising you, this jufr journey has taken you where nobody has before. >> i was amazed found that

then the skiing projects can start in all our national parks we only have three plus in our nature park so we will open the pandora box and this will be the end of protected areas in the area. it's as much about how controversial it is that protests against the scheme of being held in cities all over europe and beyond it's also claimed to be part of a much wider rotten story about the rule of law in the european union. the row over the legal and environmental implications of destroying the forests here in the apparent complicity of the bulgarian government elites have served to focus attention on this place in a way that the rich and the powerful in bulgaria really don't like at all because it appears that bomb scare was actually a giant money laundering operation dressed up as a ski resort. that's according to people like nick p. points a bounce goes empty hotels and apartment blocks as evidence of tax avoidance that's not fair is the one behind it is absolutely empty that one is empty because the hotelier turned whistleblower who's watched anonymous companies build hotel blocks h

he did offer it to the national park service and federal government in 1970. ey were not interested. he sold the property and he sold eleanor roosevelt's furniture at public auction. 1975 that a grassroots movement here in hyde park started the movement to save into al and make it national historic site. eleanor roosevelt story is not just the story of a first lady, but it is a woman activist who really devoted her life to improving the world. she had always hoped that there would be broke peace someday. she is really an inspiration to women because she was a woman of great kurds, who spoke out against issues that really needed to be addressed, like civil rights. she made a difference in the world. an incredible role model for women, even today. she was a woman who was way ahead of her time. veryas a woman who was important in the 20th century, but her ideas in the 21st ringing loud today. -- 21st century still ringing loud today. >> we continue our visit to hyde park. the cottage was fdr's private retreat built during his second term as a place to relax and en

service and the port, as well as a concession contract between the national park service and thesioner as well as the lease agreement between the port and the ferry concessioner, and these documents collectively authorize among many other things, ferry service from pier 31 and a half to fort baker for up to a 50 year period. the complexity of these documents and the 50 year duration of this document makes it all the more important that the ceqa analysis accurately defineses the project and adequately defines the projecp. even more importantly, nor does the public. the public is a partner in the ceqa process, and they, too, do not have the project contracts to review and assess whether the environmental review is adequate. and it is highlighted by the comments today of planning staff that says to you, do not concern yourself with this assertion on the part of sausalito that we have an inaccurate project description because they reference to you a clause in one of the contracts that purportedly says there must be consistency with the ceqa analysis. you don't have that document in f

in 2007, at the age of 85, she became the oldest person working for national park service.e had her highest honor meeting the first african-american president, barack obama. it was a true full circle moment. all of that history is encapsulated in the life of my mother, my great-grandmother and myself. i call this the wall of fame. >> yes. that is the wall of extraordinary ordinary people. >>Ã >> reporter: she will continue to work and tell her story. >> i am writing a book and becoming an author. i am off on another career. >> reporter: black history is american history. back to you. she is such an incredible woman. >> she really is. >> thank you for bringing that to us. >>> we have commute information. how does it look? >> it is slow. people are back after the holiday. it is tuesday and it feels like a monday. we have people on the road and a lot of congestion on the pass and on the 205. 580 and everything leading up to the past, there are a lot of people. traffic is better once you get to livermore. mostly good traffic continuing out to the interchange. you will see slow

now, bukit tigapuluh national park is one of the animals' few remaining refuges.hree years ago, our reporter inga sieg witnessed the reintroduction of a female orangutan into the wild. now she's fought her way back through the forest, to see how dora is doing. reporter: we're on a mission to find dora. she's here somewhere, deep in the sumatran jungle. zoologist peter pratje and his team released the orangutan into the wild, equipped with a transmitter. peter: dora has been in the jungle for quite a while now. so we can no longer predict where she is. we have 2000 square kilometers of forest here, so it takes time. but then suddenly you hear a rustling in the trees and you find her again. reporter: in the end, dora's curiosity gets the better of her, and she appears. she's now eight years old. three years ago, she was released into the wild. but before that, she had been taught all she needed to know to survive in the jungle -- how to climb, how to build a nest, and how to find food. these are things baby orangutans normally learn from their mothers. but dora was