Don,
Yeah, the National Parks are an incredible achievement. (Do you have one of those ranger hats? Love those!) Except I hate when the rangers at the entry booths look at me suspiciously when I present my year-round pass. Some of them ask me point blank if it is really mine!? Geez! When you look on a map and see the tiny amount of acreage that make up?the?Park Systems,?it's disturbing to think that anyone would have objections to preservation. But there weren't any serious objectors were there? The issues were more about how the parks should be managed, right?? And the show mentioned that the Yosemite and Yellowstone land?would not be economically profitable anyway (i.e. mines, agriculture). Oh and how about the fact that there was?no geology discussed except how Muir proved the rocks in Yosemite were carved by glaciers? Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Bob <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 7:53 am Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ken Burnt-Outs' National Parks Don ?? ? One lesson the series is reinforcing for me is the vulnerability of our precious places. I shudder to think what would be happening if we had voted in an administration like the last.? Bob ? Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Don Bertolette <[email protected]> wrote: Jenny/Bob- We in Alaska were feted to three one-hour excerpts at the Museum of Natural History back in May, emceed by Ken himself. ?With so much of Alaska in NPS ownership Alaska figured prominently in the series. But yeah, this is a 'big picture' series that is not likely to please all. With my recent employment with NPS aside, the National Park System is one of the things that America got right from the start, imho. -Don Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS... On Sep 28, 2009, at 1:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: Jenny, Pretty superficial, I would agree. I did learn some tidbits about John Muir that I didn't know. Basically, the series is shaping up to be about the people who had the vision to push for saving these great iconic places. I shudder to think what the series will highlight when they get to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I'm not anticipating much. If the series was going to highlight the true wonders of the Smokies, Burns would have needed to get in touch with ENTS President Will Blozan. Unless Will is going to spring a surprise on us, it didn't happen. Are you coming to Cook Forest this weekend for the rendezvous? Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "JennyNYC" <[email protected]> To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:36:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Ken Burnt-Outs' National Parks ENTS, Did anyone watch episode 1? ?Time to let someone else make documentaries about American life. Loved Baseball, Civil War, The Donner Party, and New York...but this? The writing was poor for the most part and the information imparted was superficial. ?The cinematography was expensively bland and can he please find a new Native American music soundtrack? He's used the same chants in so many shows already. ?And I knew he was going to use "bad guy vs. good guy" to interpret history instead of doing in-depth research. However, Peter Coyote was great as narrator. I actually found myself thinking that I didn't really need to visit Yosemite or Yellowstone after all... (I will, of course, but I just got so sick of the nonstop Ken Burns Effect camera panning of the geysers and waterfalls and dome rocks etc....) I needed a good bout of righteous indignation. Jenny --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
