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National Parks National Park Service The first place to go for information on National Parks. Grand Canyon Explorer An excellent web site with everything you'd want to know about the Grand Canyon. Photography Pat Anderson, Photographer This is a site full of wonderful nature, equine, and lighthouse photos. Jim Crotty Photography Some great photos of Jim's favorite National Park - Glacier - along with many other parks. Wild Things Photography - Theresa Husarik Beautiful photographs of all things wild... A great online magazine for nature photographers. Travel Related Sites D Magazine Online - The City Magazine of Dallas Where can mountain bikers find mountains in Texas? Read my latest travel article and find out! GORP.com (The Great Outdoors Reference Pages) The premier site for information about experiencing the great outdoors. Books Preserving Nature in the National Parks by Richard West Sellars this book at Barns & Noble.com This is the place to start if you are interested in the history of the National Parks. Mr. Sellars is an historian with the National Park Service and gives a clear-eyed account of the growth of the National Park idea. Most interesting is the constant battle the parks have waged with themselves between conservation and access. At what point do you tell the tourists (the people footing the bill) to go home? The Capacity for Wonder by William R. Lowry this book at Barns & Noble.com A fascinating book that compares and contrasts the US National Park Service with its cousin to the North, the Canadian Parks Service. Wilderness tends to get better treatment up north. Is it due to the Canadian people's differing attitude to the worth of wilderness? Is it the differing forms of government (decentralized parliamentary verses centralized democracy)? Or is it some other element a little harder to grasp? Regreening the National Parks by William R. Lowry this book at Barns & Noble.com A pro-conservation curmudgeon that pulls no punches when describing the failings of the US National Park system. Read it the next time you have time to kill while waiting in line at the entrance of the Grand Canyon. (I actually bought this at the book store at Grand Canyon's North Rim. The rangers behind the desk were both delighted and mystified that the book was actually available inside the park.) Creating the National Park Service - The Missing Years by Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck this book at Barns & Noble.com A truly fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the work that went into the creation of the National Park Service by one of the guys who was there - Mr. Albright was the Service's second director. Most especially the book describes information that has before now been hidden - namely the problems with manic depression the original director, Stephen T. Mather, suffered during his time at the reins. Hard to put down!