What do your National Parks mean to you?

The National Park Foundation held a video contest this summer, inviting ordinary folks to make videos of their summer adventures in a National Park.
They asked these questions:
What do America’s National Parks mean to you — how do they inspire you?
Why are they important?
Why should we protect them?

We hope this “first-ever” video challenge becomes an annual event.
Read about Sequoia National Park on the Foundation’s website here.

___________ Video links below ___________

My favorite:
Go Back In An Instant… by Robin and Steve from New York City

Young voices singing and talking about the natural world:
Into the Wild by Kate
Lands They Walked Upon by TC Cairns

Views of Sequoia National Park:
Sequoia Nat’l Park – The Land of Giants by Katharine
Sierra Nevada Mountains by Sean

Planning for the Future:
Ancient Forest National Park Proposal by Alden
“An Ancient Forest National Park is proposed for Northern California and Southern Oregon to biologically join together wilderness areas, roadless areas, a national recreation area and wild and scenic rivers into one cohesive land management unit for the protection of ancient forest plants, animals and fish. The proposal is to set aside a solid block of land approximately 2.5 million acres from the Rogue River in Oregon to the Trinity River in California. It will forever allow the free migration of species from the coast and Redwood National Park to semi arid inland canyons. The park would include already established wilderness areas and already designated critical wildlife areas along with unprotected roadless areas. Very little of the acres included are private land and most of it is very steep and uninhabited. Vast as it may seem, during the Clinton presidency, two national monuments were designated of similar size and scope, one in Arizona and one in Utah. The area proposed as Ancient Forest National Park is vast, but for the survival of species in this era of climate change and major fires, it needs to be. There has to be room for the constant change in habitat types that comes with what is truly wild.”