National Parks Service 108th Anniversary | Landscape photographer
Our National Parks Service is celebrating 108 years this weekend. I've been fortunate to visit several of them over the last few years. But plan on visiting many more in the future. Each of them is unique and awe inspiring in their own right with varying climate and landscape. Although the first park was established in 1872, Yellowstone, the actual park service was established in 1916. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the national park system's greatest historical supporters and helped preserve some of our greatest national treasures. Spending time in nature of this magnitude is time well spent. If you haven't been to a national park recently (or ever!!!), make plans to go now. Words and pictures do not do them justice. I'm forever grateful of the foresight of those responsible for preserving these priceless national treasures.
National Parks Service 108th Anniversary
The parks included in the grid below are:
Acadia, Crater Lake, Death Valley. Great Smoky, Lassen Volcanic, Yellowstone, and Yosemite
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”
The parks represented below are:
Black Canyon, Grand Teton, Olympic, Glacier, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Great Sand dunes, and Zion.
“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”
The parks included below are:
Glacier Bay, Redwoods, Joshua Tree, Kings Canyon, Mount Rainier, Sequoia, North Cascades, and Pinnacles.
“National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.”
Happy 108th anniversary to the National Park Service!
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As a published, featured northern California fine art photographer living in the greater Sacramento area, I specialize in fine art landscape and still life photography. My style is authentic, fresh and personality-driven. I offer in-person workshops and mentoring. While currently living in rural northern California with my husband and a couple thousand walnut trees, I post regularly to Instagram.
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A few years ago I visited Joshua Tree National Park after attending a photography conference in Death Valley in the late winter. It was the perfect time to extend my trip to Joshua Tree.