The scenic national parks and monuments of the United States

This book travels through the National Parks.

These treasures are both "preserved" and exploited with multiple uses, and managed by a very thin line of highly-educated Rangers.

These terribly-exposed and priceless resources are now threatened, not only by the quotidian, but by an unprecedented political assault aggressively funded by the Koch Industries and its astroturf-supported representatives in Our House of Representatives. Today, October 6, 2013, the Parks remain CLOSED. The Parks will suffer for decades as a result. Someday in the future, perhaps, the GOP Representatives will forgive themselves for facing the Financial Collapse of 2008 and the crises of our Nation by declaring war on the middle class. I never will forgive them.

Part of what is at stake in the stand-off, is right here in this wonderful book of our "wonderlands". Sadly, we contend with a species of "Representative" who have taken an oath to defend our Constitutional Government, but chose instead, to defund it.