Barry, It has been around for awhile . It includes two sections of the badlands of North Dakota. http://www.nps.gov/thro/index.htm
It is a beautiful park. After the rain the colors stand out. It also has herds of bison. Ed "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I couldn't live with myself" - Professor Hubert Farnsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Caselli To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:55 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ken Burnt-Outs' National Parks Theodore Roosevelt National Park?? I've never heard of it! Another one of those new parks I guess, huh? --- On Tue, 9/29/09, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Ken Burnt-Outs' National Parks To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 5:46 AM I agree about Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Super place. Bob Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:25 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected] > wrote: > > Great episodes, great basic information on the creating of the parks, > great photography. I am amazed at so many times in our countries past > we have had so farseeing and intelligent people in the right places at > the right time to initiate and move agendas against the grain of the > powers that be of their times. Spent the weekend camping in the ND > badlands near the site of Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch on the Little > Missouri, can't get any better. > > On Sep 28, 12:36 pm, JennyNYC <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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