Course guidebook includes lecture outlines, bibliography, list of parks, photographic credits.

Course No. 1707.

"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Disc 1. Yellowstone: microcosm of the national parks -- Yellowstone's cataclysmic orgins and future -- Grand Teto and Jackson Hole -- Hawaii volcanoes: earth's largest mountains -- The Hawaiian Islands and Maui's Haleakala -- Mount Saint Helens, Lassen Volcanic, Rainier -- Disc 2. Crater Lake, Olympic, North Cascades -- Volcanoes of Alaska: Katmai and Lake Clark -- Alaska's Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords -- Yosemite: Nature's cathedral -- Redwoods: Sequoias, and the Sierra Nevada -- Pinnacles to Joshua Tree: the San Andreas -- Disc 3. Denali to gates of the Arctic -- Death Valley and the Great Basin: the rift zone -- Shenandoah: the collision of old continents -- Great Smoky Mountains and hot springs -- National rivers: gorges, falls and meanders -- Great dune fields of North America -- Disc 4. National seashores and lakeshores -- Reefs: Virgin Islands, Florida, Texas -- National marine sanctuaries and monuments -- Acadia's Highlands and Islands -- The Dakota Badlands -- The Grand Canyon's 2-billion-year staircase -- Disc 5. Carving the Grand Canyon -- Petrified Forest and other fossil parks -- Bryce Canyon, canyonlands, arches -- Zion, Gunnison's Black Canyon, Capitol Reef -- Mesa Verde and ancient settlements -- The Colorado Rocky Mountains -- Disc 6. Montana's glacier and the Canadian Rockies -- Big bend on the Rio Grande and Saguaro -- Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carisbad Caverns -- The Everglades and the Congaree Bottomland -- Voyageurs, Isle Royale, the Canadian Shield -- Assembling North America, park by park.

Lecturer: Ford Cochran, Geologist and Program Director, National Geographic.

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Closed-captioned.