National Park Service
This colorful story portrays some of the fun activities waiting for visitors at the U.S. national parks, monuments, lakeshores, etc. Kids can reference the back cover to see which park is nearest to them and map out their next national park adventure. Features over 120 sites! Author: Andrew F. Johnson. Publisher: Haywood Studios. Published in 2011. Hardcover, 32 pages. Measures 11" x 9.25" x 0.25". Weighs 15.1 oz.
Follow Ranger Land while she explores tracks, scats and various animal signs in this story. Features animals from North America. Author: Andrew F. Johnson. Publisher: Haywood Studios. Published in 2017. Hardcover, 32 pages. Measures 11.25" x 9.25" x 0.25". Weighs 14.6 oz.
Written by Andrew F. Johnson. Illustrated by Jennifer Johnson Haywood. Explore the night sky with Ranger Land. This colorfully illustrated story features galaxies, constellations, planets and other space objects. Publisher: Haywood Studios. Published in 2017. Hardcover, 32 pages. Measures 11.25" x 9.25" x 0.25". Weighs 14.7 oz.
Lapel pin featuring the National Park Geek logo. Pin measures 1.125" x 1.125". Weighs 0.4 oz.
Wooden ornament with National Park Geek logo engraved. 3" x 3" x 0.2". Weighs 0.7 oz.
A beautiful hardcover keepsake journal featuring 63 full color National Park images. Each spread highlights a National Park with informational facts about the park's unique character. Inside pages are on a soft vellum writing sheet. ARTWORK BY: Anderson Design Group WHAT IS INCLUDED: A single journal. DIMENSIONS: 5.5" x 8.5" x 0.2"WEIGHT: 10 oz
National Parks of America Hiking Medallion. Medallion measures 1.25" x 1.6".
National parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric--particularly visual rhetoric--has worked to shape our views of nature and the "natural" place of humans, Observation Points offers insights into questions of representation, including the formation of national identity. As Thomas Patin reveals, the term "nature" is artificial and unstable, in need of constant maintenance and reconstruction. The process of stabilizing its representation, he notes, is unavoidably political. America's national parks and monuments show how visual rhetoric operates to naturalize and stabilize representations of the environment. As contributors demonstrate, visual rhetoric is often transparent, structuring experience while remaining hidden in plain sight. Scenic overlooks and turnouts frame views for tourists. Visitor centers, with their display cases and photographs and orientation films, provide their own points of view--literally and figuratively. Guidebooks, brochures, and other publications present still other ways of seeing. At the same time, images of America's "natural" world have long been employed for nationalist and capitalist ends, linking expansionism with American greatness and the "natural" triumph of European Americans over Native Americans. The essays collected here cover a wide array of subjects, including park architecture, landscape painting, public ceremonies, and techniques of display. Contributors are from an equally broad range of disciplines--art history, geography, museum studies, political science, American studies, and many other fields. Together they advance a provocative new visual genealogy of representation. Contributors: Robert M. Bednar, Southwestern U, Georgetown, Texas; Teresa Bergman, U of the Pacific; Albert Boime, UCLA; William Chaloupka, Colorado State U; Gregory Clark, Brigham Young U; Stephen Germic, Rocky Mountain College; Gareth John, St. Cloud State U, Minnesota; Mark Neumann, Northern Arizona U; Peter Peters, Maastricht U; Cindy Spurlock, Appalachian State U; David A. Tschida, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; Sabine Wilke, U of Washington. Publisher: University of Minnesota Press. Paperback, 296 pages. Measures 6" x 9" x 0.6". Weighs 1 lb. 2.7 oz.
John Muir (1838-1914) ranks among America's most important and influential environmentalists and nature writers. Devoted to the preservation of wilderness areas, Muir founded the Sierra Club and was active in the establishment of Yosemite National Park. Our National Parks, originally published in 1901, includes ten articles that previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Muir wrote them in hopes of exciting interest in the parks, certain that visitors would fall in love with the scenic grandeur as he had--and that their enthusiasm would ensure the parks' preservation. Six of this volume's ten chapters are devoted to Muir's beloved Yosemite, exploring the forests, fountains, streams, and animals of the Sierra Nevada. The great naturalist also visits the meadows, geysers, waterfalls, and lakes of other parks, including Yellowstone, Sequoia, and General Grant. Muir's warmth and humor brighten every page, and vintage photographs provide atmospheric accompaniment to his words. These essays are essential reading for anyone wishing to visit (or revisit) the national parks of the Western United States as well as those who want to help protect America's wilderness areas. Publisher: Dover Publications. Paperback, 224 pages. Measures 5.5" x 8.5" x 0.5". Weighs 11.8 oz.
Did you know that park rangers have important jobs taking care of our forests and parks? They spot forest fires and help put them out. They transport injured animals to wildlife clinics for treatment. Park rangers enforce laws and park regulations. They can even give guided tours of our parks. Surface washable. Doll measures 11". Weighs 3.2 oz.