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For more than 100 years now, we\u2019ve been blessed with National Parks, beginning with Yellowstone in 1872; Pinnacles, created in 2013, is the 59th and most recent National Park to join the list. Other kinds of natural national treasures exist, though\u2014protected monuments and seashores and recreation areas, plus an abundance of state parks and lands. This week, we\u2019re revisiting our interview with Terry Tempest Williams, who marked the centennial of the National Park Service with The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America\u2019s National Parks. From the Grand Tetons to the Gulf Islands, Alcatraz to the Arctic, each place is imbued, in Williams\u2019s telling, with the depth of history, a sense of longing, and her indelible, close observation of the peaks and twigs around her.

Go beyond the episode:

• Episode page
• Terry Tempest Williams\u2019s The Hour of Land
• Go find a park at the National Park Service website\u2019s interactive map.
• Check out Ansel Adams\u2019s historic black and white portraits of our National Parks
• Read \u201cHow an Obscure Photographer Saved Yosemite,\u201d a profile of Carleton Watkins (whose photograph of El Capitan adorns Williams\u2019s book) in Smithsonian magazine
• Read our Summer 2016 cover story by David Gessner about learning to love the crowds at America\u2019s National Parks, \u201cThe Taming of the Wild\u201d

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