In this seminar you will learn about the US National Park Service, its specific parks and their ecosystems, and influential key figures like John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and Steven Mather who helped the Park service begin. Now we can still enjoy natural wonders of the US unmarred- like visiting the Grand Canyon without high-rise apartments and malls all over it. The federal protection of natural wonders and sites of scientific/historic significance was a new idea that has influenced the world. If you like nature, conservation, and history this may be a course for you.