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EXCELLENT! Thank you for educating us about this topic. I am a volunteer with Great Old Broads for Wilderness and I'm just starting to learn more about public lands! CHEERS!
You are just talking about Grand Teton instead of Wyoming as a whole. As a proud Wyomingite, I personally find this insulting that you only talk about just one place in Wyoming when your video title said " Why National Monuments are BANNED in Wyoming". If you are here to talk about Grand Teton only, you should have wrote that in your title.
I just made a document on my computer, and find that you left off several that are actual places, and I'm wondering why they weren't included: National Military Park, National Trail, National Monument & Historic Shrine, Scenic and Recreational River, Monument Park, and National Monument & Preserve. Thanks. By the way, great video!
I think every unit in the Park system is beautful in it's own way. And believing that makes visiting them that much better.
One of my great great grandfather's was a prisoner there. He had bad health and was sick but survived because one of his guards waa his cousin! The cousin supplied extra food and medicine as he could so he survived the rest of the war in the prison camp
Naw it definitely should be fuck yall
Read the book!
I heard once that my grandfather had climbed it, though I don't know how much of it he climbed. In his Will I remember he wanted his ashes to be spread over the mountain. I guess he climbed the whole way up, or he just really liked that mountain. *his ashes have not been spread. I assume it is not allowed.
Wallace Beery!
I'm wondering if there were any fossils there in the first place and was it seeded as a way to get it as much government funding as possible. I've seen a lot of scams involving local governments... one being a land grab where the town of Kinston nc wanted funding for an airport that was not wanted or needed and they went as far as taking land saying it was condemn, then putting s ditch next to it, and claimed it was no longer condemned... yet they would not allow the original land owner to put a ditch in... I'm wondering if this place was someone wanting to fleece government contract, and funding by finding a few fossils tossing them in a big pile and saying it needed to be a multi million dollar government investment there... I guess we will never know for sure.
It's pretty well documented that there were substantial fossil resources on the site.
Nice. In 2016 I did 16 parks.
By that measure, you've got a lot of parks to visit this year 😂
I just moved to Columbia and found out that Congaree is only 30 minutes away! I went after work on a weekday around 6 p.m. and there was nobody else but me on the elevated boardwalk trail, it was absolutely magical. I enjoyed my quick after work hike more than I did some of the busier trails in the more popular national parks just because there was no noise at all - perfect for listening to the soundscape. Highly recommend going at an off time and immersing yourself in Congaree! The mosquitos were not bad relative to my experience in other swampy areas in the Southeast.
That's a lovely time to go! I always love the quieter moments as well.
New planet of the apes looking 🔥
I have just discovered your videos... They are great, I am so into National parks. Your so passionate, you make it interesting. Thanks, I look forward to seeing more. Thanks!
So glad you're here, welcome!!
Stolen but not forgotten.
IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY THERE WAS A REFERENCE TO THAT PRISON IN ONE EPISODE WHERE SOME OLD GUY THAT WENT THERE WENT CRAZY AND❤❤❤
It's a shame how little we value marsh and desert ecosystems in our society. I wish we cared a little bit more to preserve these pristine places.
Agreed!
Him & Allen Dulles assassinated Kennedy
Yep, they broke it. They broke the Colorado and the Mississippi. What next. When you only think of cattle and orange groves, you get the mess we have. Cattle and oranges aren't native to Florida. What the heck are they doing there?
good job young buck!😁
Thank you!
FBI. Holland. Family member. Prob Barry. I see dead children. Thousands of them.
Quite a lot!! Adding Kenai Fjords to my bucket list for sure.
I don't think you'll regret it!
All they ever have to say is "national security" and anything that you say after becomes irrelevant.
And just think, we are taught to idolize the monster who started that horrible war.
Yes. The 'lost cause,' fought to defend human rights from the evil Abe Lincoln.
I absolutely enjoyed your video
Thanks so much for watching!
The proposed legislation (Senate bill 4216 and House Bill 8182) attempts to address the feasibility issue by paring back the expanded park boundaries to cut out the sections that would require purchases from multiple private landowners. The park service’s recent comments on 5/15/24 at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee on National Parks indicate that they would like to see the proposed bill amended to extend co-management opportunities to additional indigenous groups who also see the Ocmulgee corridor as ancestral land along with the Muskogee (Creek) people; but, NPS otherwise supports the intent of the bill.
Short drive
My 3rd Gr-Grandfather, Lewis McCrory was there. After being released he boarded the ill-fated paddle wheel boat The Sultana whose boiler later exploded while traveling on the Mississippi River. He survived THAT too! Wish i could have a conversation w/him about his experiences! i'm very proud to be one of his descendants!
A wonderful production!
Thank you!
Wow, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing your travels, it brings back some wonderful memories of my own travels.
Glad you enjoyed it and that I could help bring back some positive memories! Thanks for watching!
A lot of the wilderness could be preserved as a contiguous national park without diminishing the communities and systems in the rest of the park. The money paid by the federal government could also serve as a grant for new state parks and preserves
The thing is, and what this video was conveying, I don't think that's really necessary. Sure, there's an argument to be made that the Adirondacks have the qualities necessary for some form of NPS protection, but the way the park is managed and protected right now works for the lands, peoples, and communities there.
My Dad took me to the Ocmulgee Mounds a lot as a kid. Some of my favorite memories with him were late mornings spent hiking around.
It was a really cool place. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there!
I still think National Parks should be Monumental and universally recognized as grand scenery. I do agree with you that peripheral lands surrounding monuments should be preserved and that biodiversity deserves to be protected, but under other designations. I think an expansion of National Preserves and National Rivers systems would do better at crafting a niche for all the diverse ecosystems outside of the monumental image of the parks. National Parks would serve as the first step into the natural world, which should lead people to understand the ecosystems surrounding the monumental landscape as well as being led to other NPS sites, then to appreciation of the NFWS or USFS sites in their area and understanding the ecosystems across the continent. Monumentalism is not the “end all and be all” of conservation, but it is a worthy niche deserving of special status, if at least only for the public perception among common people all around the world
Agree to disagree on this, I guess. I think preserving National Parks as purely monumental landscapes cheapens the value of other landscapes and values in the public eye. It devalues them to our society if we only think that National Parks are important because they contain pretty scenery. Our understanding of National Parks, how we value them, and how we manage them, has changed dramatically since they were first created - the idea of a National Park isn't static. I think our changing ideas and understandings should be reflected in the places we consider to be National Parks, and for me, that means moving on from a _purely_ monumental approach to National Park designation.
@@NationalParkDiaries I can see your point, and I would not want people to overlook other landscapes and ecosystems… I think my answer to that would be expansion of national preserves and raising awareness for the wildlife refuges and national forests in the overall conservation system. I myself, and many others who love the outdoors, started first with monumental sights and that led me to discover different types of preserves and protected areas. I’m actually on my way to walk in a wetland at a national refuge as I type this, so that process works effectively 😉
@microcosm1957 No complaints from me there! I think I'm coming at this from the perspective that the NPS is _the_ premier conservation agency in the US. They're the sites that, for better and for worse, have the most visitation, recognition, and cultural significance. No doubt, I would LOVE for wildlife refuges and National Forests and State Parks and all these other wonderful conservation areas to be treated the same - they're absolutely deserving of it - but as long as the NPS carries the weight that it does, I would like to see all of its units given the credit they are due and not devaluing them in the eyes of the public simply because they're not monumental. I appreciate your perspective on this issue and am certainly glad these places have benefitted you in so many ways!
@@NationalParkDiaries National Preserves are a very under-utilized category of the NPS. Would love to see all the bottomland hardwood forests of the southeast conserved under that umbrella.
$300 Million isn’t really a huge amount for the federal government. One highway intersection costs that much
In the scope of the National Park Service, that's actually a tremendous amount. I agree with the sentiment that we should probably allocating federal dollars more wisely (highway expansion being a great example), but $300 million purely for land acquisition at a park the size of Ocmulgee is a huge barrier to establishment.
With cheap energy we could possibly water them and fill springs
I might go there this summer, I will have to tell my parents about it. It looks very pretty! This is only about 2 hours away from my house, and we can go when we go to the beach, we might stop here because it is on the way to our beach house! If we do go, I can’t wait to see the animals there! Thank you so much! 😊
Great America
Flooding ruins and artifacts has nothing to do with the environment.
Aluminum barely breaks 50 cents a pound today. Clean, bulky. And that thing looks WAY more than six pounds. Six pounds is a plastic gallon milk jug. Water is about seven pounds per water, more dense than fat. That isnt a milk jug. It's one of the lightest metals used for aircrafts. The geometry of the monument. Is almost straight lines vertical. Cmon. And it has impurities.
Great video! I realize I’m very late to commenting but I think it would be interesting if you did a video on an overview of the NPS units and sites in DC, as there are tons. A lot of standard city parks and even traffic circles are under NPS jurisdiction in DC. Love your channel!
That is a topic I really want to cover! I actually just got back from DC (long layover) and got some great footage. I need to return to film more of the "bits and pieces" parks scattered throughout the city, but yeah, that's a story I'll be telling for sure. Thanks for watching!!
@@NationalParkDiaries Awesome, looking forward to it!
So the millions who live near the Everglades and dump their millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the water system has nothing to do with the issue?
so what you're saying is Grand Teton was a pyrric victory. we got the park but at too high a cost
Essentially, yes. For the State of Wyoming, at least.
why does crater lake look like lake Tahoe?
Climate Change is code for Overpopulation
I'm so glad you did a video on this amazing park. I visited in 2008 & it was an incredible experience walking thru this impressive forest. One thing I'll never forget is hearing barred owls calling to each other at 4pm as we walked along the boardwalk.
I love hearing barreds call in the park - one of my favorite things. Thanks for watching!