The National Park

This book makes you the tour guide for your group! Janet Chapple shares plenty of history anecdotes, a field guide to the plants and animals, and her tips to spot wildlife, catch geyser eruptions, stay safe, and escape the crowds. Mile-by-mile road logs document every approach to the park and every interior road. Updates to this sixth edition include which geysers and hot springs are active, a new time line of the geology, new and enlarged color photos—adding up to more than 230 photos and illustrations—and 38 new and revised maps.

Its monumental rocks, etched by glaciers during the last Ice Age, have made Yosemite National Park a crown jewel of the national park system and a world-celebrated destination. Yet, more and more, fire rather than ice is shaping this storied landscape.

The National Parks are Britain's most treasured landscapes, but they are increasingly becoming battlefields. They were designated 60 years ago as places for everyone, but is that still the case? In this series the award-winning filmmaker Richard Macer spent a year amid conflicts in three different parks, on a journey to discover who they are really for. In each park the stories are very different, but there is something that unites them all - fiercely divided communities who are prepared to fight in order to preserve their right to enjoy the countryside. In each film Macer has secured access to the National Park Authority - an organisation which looks after the landscapes and decides upon planning matters.