{"id":6934,"date":"2013-09-03T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/channel57.org\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:23:49","slug":"the-national-parks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=6934","title":{"rendered":"THE NATIONAL PARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/parks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22633\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/last_refuge-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/last_refuge-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/last_refuge-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/last_refuge-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/last_refuge.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>AMERICA&#8217;S BEST IDEA<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>THE LAST REFUGE (1890-1915)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>THURSDAY, JUNE 18 @ 7:00PM &amp; 11:30PM<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the 19th century, widespread industrialization has left many Americans worried about whether the country \u2013 once a vast wilderness \u2013 will have any pristine land left. At the same time, poachers in the parks are rampant, and visitors think nothing of littering or carving their names near iconic sites like Old Faithful. Congress has yet to establish clear judicial authority or appropriations for the protection of the parks. This sparks a conservation movement by organizations such as the Sierra Club, led by John Muir; the Audubon Society, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/nationalparks\/people\/behindtheparks\/1#grinnell\">George Bird Grinnell<\/a>; and the Boone and Crockett Club, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/nationalparks\/people\/historical\/roosevelt\">Theodore Roosevelt<\/a>. The movement fails, however, to stop San Francisco from building the Hetch Hetchy dam at Yosemite, flooding Muir&#8217;s &#8220;mountain temple&#8221; and leaving him broken-hearted before he dies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/the-national-parks-the-last-refuge-1890-1915\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICA&#8217;S BEST IDEA THE LAST REFUGE (1890-1915) THURSDAY, JUNE 18 @ 7:00PM &amp; 11:30PM By the end of the 19th century, widespread industrialization has left many Americans worried about whether the country \u2013 once a vast wilderness \u2013 will have any pristine land left. At the same time, poachers in the parks are rampant, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=6934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE NATIONAL PARKS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22634,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}