i count myself as one of the lucky few to live in the shadow of yellowstone national park. i have witnessed firsthand the joy of so many people getting to experience the wonders of our first national park. also the challenges that have come with the parks growing popularity. americans are rediscovering the outdoors in record numbers. recently, park visitation grew by more than 20% in just three years. it has stayed high. despite overall system visitation growth, the impacts are not felt equally. last year, 44 out of the 423 national park system units set records for visitation. parks hosted a total of 297 million recreation visits. more than half of those visits, however, were to just the 25 most visited parks in the country. representing just 6% of the national park system. the further complicate matters, those visitors do not disperse evenly. yellowstone national park, for example, estimates that 98% of visitors never get more than a half mile away from their car, using just 1% of the park. while it is encouraging to see widespread enthusiasm for our parks. congestion in p

these base and come from yellowstone national park, when huge herds were slaughtered in the 19th century, a few 100 animals found refuge there. that's why genetically pure bison still exist today. oh, no way. yeah. oh gloria, accept of all 4 of the whole temperatures and hot with just a lot better than life. the results have come back negative. no bison have blue. so those bacteria, the 1st truck is going to washington state. the 2nd to oklahoma. there's a whole family and each one with bulls, cows, and calves. it's stressful for all concerned. 2 native american tribes hoped to establish their own herds with these bison. the cattle truck is the final, her muffler really? it is wild like just a year now. car and every other of these large north american animals. do they have to be moved on tracks this way because there's no tolerance for unity walking. they're on their own 2 feet, 4 feet. robbie magnon dreams, that one day bison will roam free across the prairie again. he knows it's just a dream, but he's taking big risks to make it happen. in the end they're all safe and sound man and an

these bison come from yellowstone national park.ge herds were slaughtered in the 19th century, a few hundred animals found refuge there. that's why genetically pure bison still exist today. robbie: they're dancing around and playing. buffalo are really acceptable for cold temperatures and hot temperatures. they are able to adjust a lot better than livestock. reporter: the test results have come back negative -- no bison have brucellosis bacteria. the first truck is going to washington state, the second to oklahoma. there's a whole family in each one, with bulls, cows, and calves. it's stressful for all concerned. two native american tribes hope to establish their own herds with these bison. the cattle truck is the final hurdle. megan: if buffalo were really tolerated as wildlife, just like deer and elk are and every other of these other large north american animals, we wouldn't have to do this. but they have to be moved on trucks this way because there's no tolerance for them to be walking there on their own two feet, four feet. rep

these base and come from yellowstone national park. when each herds were slaughtered in the 19th century, a few 100 animals found refuge there. that's why genetically pure bison still exist today. oh, oh. yeah. oh gloria, accept of all for a hold of a jury and a judge, a lot better than life. the results have come back negative. no by said have brucellosis bacteria. the 1st truck is going to washington state. the 2nd to oklahoma. there's a whole family and each one with bulls, cows, and calves. it's stressful for all concerned to native american tribes hope to establish their own herds with these bison. the cattle truck is the final thing. buffalo are really wild, like just a year now. car and every other of these large north american animals do that. they have to be moved on tracks this way because there's no tolerance, realty walking there and their own 2 feet, 4 feet robbie magnon dreams, that one day bison will roam free across the prairie. again. he knows it's just a dream, but he's taking big risks to make it happen. in the end,

yellowstone national park celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary. i was proud to be there at old faithful when we ring in the opening of the park with all of the expectations of a stellar year for tourism. within a few weeks, a massive rainstorm fell on an elevated, late-season snowpack, causing unprecedented flooding, damaging roads and cutting off communities. one of wyoming's most important economic sectors, the one that hires more people, was facing a bust. today, we are joined by someone i am proud to call a friend. someone who recognizes and promotes that wyoming and yellowstone share a wonderful commitment to one another. when the flooding hit, superintendent camp charlie worked with neighboring communities to make sure visitors to the park were evacuated, much to the surprise of the national press, without incident. and working with his neighbors, reopened the parking wyoming on july 2. within nine days. his swift actions saved many businesses and jobs that depend on visitation to america's first and most iconic national park. but that was n

. >> in the west,sections of yellowstone national park were devastated by destructive flash floods. roads were washed away, and the park closed to the public for the first time in three decades. climate change causing the atmosphere to be warmer and wetter, making conditions rife for these types of events. >> it was very surprising. the flood when it came. >> this summer was the story of extremes, europe had its most intense heat wave in recorded history. london said has a historic all-time high of 104 degrees. back in the u.s., six 1000 your floods occurred in the span of five weeks in july in august. places like st. louis, dallas and eastern kentucky deluge with 8 to 15 inches of rain. in just 24 hours. death valley received its entire years worth of rain in just three hours. the footprint of climate change leaving its mark across nearly the entire u.s.. parts of the west baked in the most severe heat ever recorded in the month of september, -- >> i've never dealt with something this hot before. >> nearly 300 weather stations hitting their hottest temperatures, in places like salt

they want to thank you for the work you did at yellowstone national park to make bison capture betteranimals. >> you feed them in corrals and one day you shut the gates. that is a lot easier than chasing them. something that i see that solution, something that i see, it is not abstract. this is where we need my kind of mind to visualize where we used to fix things. to talk about something abstract, what they were talking about, nobody sat down and said what piece of equipment froze at each point? you have to know that before you can make a rational decision on what is easiest to fix. nobody discussed that. that is so abstract, you are not solving a problem. all that equipment will be easy to winterize and some will be impossible to winterize. but you have to know what works first and the people that are making decisions have to know what exact thing froze and how difficult would it be to winterize. that never gets discussed. i get scared and look at the books in political science professors's office. somebody with all that verbal abstractness will make a real decision. is that the rig

you mentioned dyson and they want to thank you for your work you did years ago in yellowstone national parke bison capturefacilities much better for animals . >> if m all around all over the place. lots of these animals you can feed them in corrals and one day shut down. that's a lot easier than the chase. >> you've got something that i see that solution. it is something that i see, it's not abstract. this is where we need my kind of mind to visualize ways to fix things. also people talk about stuff like abstract when all these power plants are in texas . nobody sat down and said what exact piece of equipment froze each pipe?? well, you'd have to know that before you can make a rational decision on the ones that were the easiest to fix . nobody discussed back. that's so abstract you're not solving the problem. some of that equipment will be easy to winterize and some will be impossible . but you have to know what froze first. and the people making decisions have to know what froze. what exact thingfroze and how difficult would it be . >> that never got discussed. and i get scared when i loo

dakota were themselves part of the great sioux reservation and established four years before yellowstone national park was created in 1889. a government commissioned strong arm, the lakota sioux and to selling 9 million acres of their land, including the badlands, at which point they became part of the public domain. in 1922, the first congressional bill was introduced to create an entity called wonderland national park in the western reaches of south dakota, not many settlers may have wanted to live in the badlands anymore, but someone was betting that people would want to come and marvel at their mysterious beauty. a paradox about the national park service is worth noting here. it's a conservation action bureau charged with a mission to expand in other words, entrusted with protecting public land. the nps also aims to acquire it through donation purchase, exchange and eminent domain. when you think about it, such an expansive agenda was likely to create hard feelings sooner or later in indian country, our parks are natural, of course, but they're also humanly shaped, stocked with large ungulates, bl

who you mentionedto bison and he wanted to thank you for your work you did years ago in yellowstone national park to make bison captured this was much better for animals. >> chase them him all aboue places, a lot of these animals you can just go feed them in corral some a day you just shut theah gate. >> yes. >> that's a lot easier than chasing them. something that i see that solution, it's something that i see. it's not abstract. you see this is where we need my kinds of my division lies ways to fix things. also, people talk about subway to abstract. all the powerbe plants froze in texas, couldn't leave all the nonsense they were talking about. nobody sat down and said, what folks, , what exact piece of equipment froze in each plant? what was it that froze? well, you have to know that if or we can make a rational decision on the ones that would be easiest to fix, to winterize. nobody discussed that. see, that's so abstract they're not solving the problem. >> right. >> some of the equipment will be easy to winterize and some of might be impossible to winterize. but you have to know what froze fir

you did years ago in yellowstone national park make bison captured facilities better for the animals? well, why workers chase them all around those places you could lot of these animals can just feed them in corrals and then one day you just shut the gate. yeah, that's lot easier. and chasing them. add something that i see solution is something that i see. it's not. you see, this is where we need my kind of mind to visualize ways to fix things. also, people talk about subway to abstract when all is power plants frozen texas couldn't believe all nonsense that we're talking. nobody sat down and said what folks what exact piece of equipment froze in each what was it that froze. well, you have to know that before you can make a rational decision on on the ones that would be easiest to fix to winterize. nobody discussed that. she that's so abstract. not solving a problem, right? all that equipment will be easy to winterize and solve. it might be impossible to winterize winterize, but you have to know what froze first. and the people that are making decisions have to know what broke, what e

now later on, after lincoln was done, the park service, but national park system was created, and yellowstone became the very first national park. california said, we will just give the land back to the federal government, either back in the federal government made it the third national park. the yosemite valley and the mariposa grove, big trees, sequoias, redwoods, became the third national park. and i will just tell you right now, if anybody asks me of the second national park is between yellowstone and yosemite, i do not know. somebody, look that up in case somebody asks that. so just to reiterate, lincoln knew a lot of science. he understood the idea of technology, and a lot more than people know, a lot more than he let on. but he definitely knew a lot more. and obviously, the book, i go through all of these details, and talk more about it. like i said it is not a science book. it is a history book. and a few people here might have read it already. you can ask them. basically, he saw science and technology and education, which goes hand in hand with science and technology, has a way for e

protection as a park system now later on after lincoln was gone the park service the national park system was created and yellowstone became the very first national park in california. that now well, just give it back give the land back to to the federal government and it went back to the federal government and the federal government made it the third national park. so yosemite valley, and the mariposa grove of big trees. the big and redwoods became the third national park. and and i'll just tell you right now, if anybody asked me what the second national park is between yellowstone and and yosemite, i don't know somebody looks at up wall and just case somebody else it so anyway there just to reiterate you know lincoln knew a lot of science he understood the idea of technology and a lot more than people know and a lot more than he let on. but he definitely knew a lot more. and in the book, obviously, i go through all these details and and talk more about it. and like i said, it's not a science book. it's a it's a history book and are few here who might have read it already. so you can ask them. but basically he saw

i also does that at yellowstone national park. i love astrophotography a lot .aphy, but i also do astrobiology . i like space astrobiology. i like space exploration . and so sometimes exploration. and so sometimes i go to national parks at night dunng go to national parks at night during night—time to photograph here is our our galaxy , the core here is our our galaxy, the core of our milky way during summer, summer months racing . this is summer months racing. this is blended during sunrise. so because of my day job i cannot go every weekend every month to national parks. so here in london and. we also have beautiful opportunities and the golden hour is the hour after sunrise or before sunset that really brings out we are where where you that gave you the so there's two hotels that are very close to tower of london and the they have restaurant views or from this sometimes i like book hotels when i go visiting the cities that had a view of the city in his very close to tower of london tube station behind that effect you got there with the tower of london and the

i also does that at yellowstone national park. i love astrophotography a lot .y, but i also do astrobiology . i like space astrobiology. i like space exploration . and so sometimes exploration. and so sometimes i go to national parks at night dunng go to national parks at night during night—time to photograph here is our our galaxy , the core here is our our galaxy, the core of our milky way during summer, summer months racing . this is summer months racing. this is blended during sunrise. so because of my day job i cannot go every weekend every month to national parks. so here in london and. we also have beautiful opportunities and the golden hour is the hour after sunrise or before sunset that really brings out we are where where you that gave you the so there's two hotels that are very close to tower of london and the they have restaurant views or from this sometimes i like book hotels when i go visiting the cities that had a view of the city in his very close to tower of london tube station behind that effect you got there with the tower of london and the ea

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national park idea. where did the idea for the national system come from? did it arise spontaneously during campfire in 1870 on the yellowstone plateau. that's sort of been the official story for many years. and doesn't it have something to do with teddy roosevelt or john muir? and why are we talking about wasn't he a park designer and national parks don't aren't usually don't usually come to mind is designed. he central park the arnold arboretum etc. what does that have to do with national parks? well, these are questions that ralph and i have been plagued with our entire professional lives. and so we decided to write this book and hope i don't know, maybe i don't know if this is the last word or not, ralph. but but but hopefully, hopefully the term national park idea is in our title is a bit misleading because we're really here to talk about the public park idea as it took shape specifically in the united states in the mid-19th century, including urban and national parks and as i hope we show in the book, there was a broader idea of public parks that was the source of the national park idea. and even if we want even if we w

new york city and natural wonders like yellowstone which lucy and the travel show visited in early 2022, coinciding with its 150th anniversary as a national parkobably one of the world's most famous geysers. there she goes. people save for years to see amazing places like yellowstone but with the cost of living soaring, are such trips becoming out of reach? as always, if you can travel at times of low demand you will get the best deal. keep costs down by taking cabin baggage only. most transatlantic airlines now charge extra for anything you want to check into the hold, but at the same time offer generous hand luggage allowances and there is less chance that your valuables will go astray. in april, uk air passenger duty forfligths to north america increases to £87, or in anything other than basic economy, £191. you can avoid the tax by taking a ship to dublin or a train to paris and booking a flight from there. but allow plenty of time to make the connection if you miss the onward flight, you are not getting a refund. the same idea works in the opposite direction. if you are starting in north america and planning to visit a number of european

well this land now forms five new national parks and expand three there's an area three times bigger than yellowstone and yosemite combined. these also to head the naval the rudolph parts project scenic road one thousand seven hundred miles long connecting seventeen parks across chile boosting the economies of the community some root. right now the largest and other duties facilities are closing down until the handover process is complete. so the whole team. they're all saying goodbye to one another and it's not likely they'll be back next year so. yeah it's sad. less than four years after doug died in a kayaking accident scene their dream finally become a reality aesop on a moment. here is. the day that dog died he was on a kayaking trip with our best friends and they got caught out in a severe or westerly wind they were getting pushed farther and farther out into the center of the like and so they decided to abandon the kayak and try to swim to shore. and it was just. too much the dog was in the water for over two and a half hours and they got him out he was helicoptered to the hospital and clay ai

new york city and natural wonders like yellowstone which lucy and the travel show visited in early 2022, coinciding with its 150th anniversary as a national park is old faithful, probably one of the world's most famous geysers. there she goes. people save for years to see amazing places like yellowstone but with the cost of living soaring, are such trips becoming out of reach? as always, if you can travel at times of low demand you will get the best deal. keep costs down by taking cabin baggage only. most transatlantic airlines now charge extra for anything you want to check into the hold, but at the same time offer generous hand luggage allowances and there is less chance that your valuables will go astray. in april, uk air passenger duty for fligths to north america increases to £87, or in anything other than basic economy, £191. you can avoid the tax by taking a ship to dublin or a train to paris and booking a flight from there. but allow plenty of time to make the connection if you miss the onward flight, you are not getting a refund. the same idea works in the opposite direction. if you are starting in north america and planning to visit

new york city and natural wonders like yellowstone which lucy and the travel show visited in early 2022, coinciding with its 150th anniversary as a national park, probably one of the world's most famous geysers. there she goes. people save for years to see amazing places like yellowstone but with the cost of living soaring, are such trips becoming out of reach? as always, if you can travel at times of low demand you will get the best deal. keep costs down by taking cabin baggage only. most transatlantic airlines now charge extra for anything you want to check into the hold, but at the same time offer generous hand luggage allowances and there is less chance that your valuables will go astray. in april, uk air passenger duty for fligths to north america increases to £87, or in anything other than basic economy, £191. you can avoid the tax by taking a ship to dublin or a train to paris and booking a flight from there. but allow plenty of time to make the connection if you miss the onward flight, you are not getting a refund. the same idea works in the opposite direction. if you are starting in north america and planning to visit a number of euro

new york city and natural wonders like yellowstone which lucy and the travel show visited in early 2022, coinciding with its 150th anniversary as a national parky. most transatlantic airlines now charge extra for anything you want to check into the hold, but at the same time offer generous hand luggage allowances and there is less chance that your valuables will go astray. in april, uk air passenger duty forfligths to north america increases to £87, or in anything other than basic economy, £191. you can avoid the tax by taking a ship to dublin or a train to paris and booking a flight from there. but allow plenty of time to make the connection if you miss the onward flight, you are not getting a refund. the same idea works in the opposite direction. if you are starting in north america and planning to visit a number of european countries, make britain the first nation you visit, not the last. for all its colour, scenery and wonders, south america appears on the wish lists of surprisingly few travellers. and that may not be about to change. according to a survey by the leading uk travel association, significantly fewer travellers this year are l