Wonders of the National Parks

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1—Yellowstone: Microcosm of the National Parks
Lecture 2—Yellowstone’s Cataclysmic Origins and Future
Lecture 3—Grand Teton and Jackson Hole
Lecture 4—Hawaii Volcanoes: Earth’s Largest Mountains
Lecture 5—The Hawaiian Islands and Maui’s Haleakala
Lecture 6—Mount Saint Helens, Lassen Volcanic, Rainier
Lecture 7—Crater Lake, Olympic, North Cascades
Lecture 8—Volcanoes of Alaska: Katmai and Lake Clark
Lecture 9—Alaska’s Glacier Bay and Kenai Fjords
Lecture 10—Yosemite: Nature’s Cathedral
Lecture 11—Redwoods, Sequoias, and the Sierra Nevada
Lecture 12—Pinnacles to Joshua Tree: The San Andreas
Lecture 13—Denali to Gates of the Arctic
Lecture 14—Death Valley and Great Basin: The Rift Zone
Lecture 15—Shenandoah: The Collision of Old Continents
Lecture 16—Great Smoky Mountains and Hot Springs
Lecture 17—National Rivers: Gorges, Falls, and Meanders
Lecture 18—Great Dune Fields of North America
Lecture 19—National Seashores and Lakeshores
Lecture 20—Reefs: Virgin Islands, Florida, Texas
Lecture 21—National Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments
Lecture 22—Acadia’s Highlands and Islands
Lecture 23—The Dakota Badlands
Lecture 24—The Grand Canyon’s 2-Billion-Year Staircase
Lecture 25—Carving the Grand Canyon
Lecture 26—Petrified Forest and Other Fossil Parks
Lecture 27—Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Arches
Lecture 28—Zion, Gunnison’s Black Canyon, Capitol Reef
Lecture 29—Mesa Verde and Ancient Settlements
Lecture 30—The Colorado Rocky Mountains
Lecture 31—Montana’s Glacier and the Canadian Rockies
Lecture 32—Big Bend on the Rio Grande and Saguaro
Lecture 33—Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, Carlsbad Caverns
Lecture 34—The Everglades and the Congaree Bottomland
Lecture 35—Voyageurs, Isle Royale, the Canadian Shield
Lecture 36—Assembling North America, Park by Park
Bibliography
List of Parks
Photographic Credits