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Our National Parks: Legacy at Risk OLSON_National Geographic magazine 10/1994 47 images Created 1 Apr 2021

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  • A mist morning in near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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  • Aerial of Grand Prismatic Spring.
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  • Closeup of elk.
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  • Sunlight illuminates Half Dome in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at sunset.
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  • Two tourists standing by trees are silhouetted against a night sky.
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  • "Joe Launderville runs cows thru the largest superfund cleanup site in the coun try - the cows are going thru the Clark River which winds thru the Grant-Kohrs Ranch.  The river is laden with heavy metals from the old Butte mine. Laundervi lle is a rancher for the NPS.  Joe didn't think the cows would go across the Clark River (the toxic clean up site) when he was moving them - so he had to bring them ba ck to the fenced area even tho the cows drink this water. They try to keep the cows out of the river because they can kick up toxic heavy metals which are bad for the fis h...General views of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch.  Most are of Joe Launderville and t he draft horses he uses on the ranch."
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  • "River scenics in Smokies."
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  • Time-exposure view of the Natchez Trace National Parkway.
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  • ""Photos of abandoned amusement park right at park entrance."
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  • A black lab named Cooper with a turtle in his mouth.
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  • Aerial view of Craters of the Moon National Monument.
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  • Tourists walking along a lava field in Craters of the Moon National Park.
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  • Puffy clouds fill the sky over Devil's Tower.
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  • Jesse Driskill herding cattle on the Koa Ranch.
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  • Geyser Basin, twilight.
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  • Tourists pass through steam of Grand Prismatic Spring.
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  • Boardwalk with steam, Midway Geyser Basin.
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  • A female moose nuzzles her juvenile.
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  • Great gray owl in Pelican Valley.
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  • Silhouetted men fish in the Firehole River surrounded by geothermal activity.
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  • Cables of the Golden Gate Bridge above the early morning fog.
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  • Moonlight over a deserted road at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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  • Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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  • View of a dramatic, stunted and twisted bare tree on Sentinel Dome.
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  • A coyote snarls in this close view.
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  • At the base of a giant sequoia, photographer Melissa Farlow lies against the tr unk and aims her camera upward.
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  • Aerial view of the Great Smoky Mountains with autumn foliage.
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  • A woman leads her toddler down a paved trail in the fog, surrounded by what is most likely the "Ghost Forest," an area of devastation where an exotic insect k illed all the trees.
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  • Close view of a river sliding over boulders in its bed.  Three autumn leaves ha ve collected on one rock.
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  • Woodland scene.
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  • Gonnison Beach is the only nude beach operated by the National Park Service. It provides ranger patrols and lifeguards. Park Ranger John A. Cahill Jr. talks with nude sunbather.
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  • A ranger hikes through the woods at Oregon Caves Natioal Monument.
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  • Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Pa rk is a bustling town vying for the tourist trade. Among it's attractions: a fi ve-story fiberglass dinosaur and Dolly Parton's Dollywood amusement park.
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  • Overcrowding of the park cause long lines in Yosemite's stores.
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  • The Old State House is part of Boston National Historical Park.
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  • New York City children discover camping at Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey.
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  • A Yellowstone geoglogist shoves off to plumb a hot spring using a crude measuri ng tape tied to scrap metal.
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  • A ranger erases graffiti at Devils Tower National Monument.
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  • Motorists crowd into Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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  • Sunrise at San Francisco's Presidio, a U.S. Army post recently transferred to t he Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
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  • This red wolf (Canis rufus) has been trapped as part of a preditor reintroducti on program in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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  • Volunteers from a conservation group return orphaned elephant seals (Mirounga l eonina) to the surf at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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  • These anglers at Yellowstone's Firehole River can not keep thier catch. Heavy f ishing pressure has forced the park to impose a catch-and-release policy.
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  • A visitor videotapes a sunset at Yosemite.
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  • At Boston National Historical Park, 15 rangers shared one coed shower until th elavatory was remodeled.
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  • Mounds of hotel laundry attest ot overbuilding at Sequoia National Park.
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