The wonder of it all : 100 stories from the National Park Service / preface by Jon Jarvis ; foreword by Dayton Duncan ; edited by Yosemite Conservancy.

"Since the founding of the National Park Service in 1916, tens of thousands of NPS employees and volunteers have devoted themselves to preserving our public lands, which today number more than 400. Each person's NPS career is unique, seasoned with daily duties, grand adventures, and everything in be...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Yosemite Conservancy (Organization) (Editor)
Other Authors: Jarvis, Jonathan B. (Writer of preface)
Duncan, Dayton (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Conservancy, [2016]
Subjects:
United States. > National Park Service > Officials and employees > Anecdotes.
National parks and reserves > United States > Anecdotes.
United States. > National Park Service.
Employees.
National parks and reserves.
United States.
Anecdotes.
Genre:
Anecdotes.
Physical Description:xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
100 stories from the National Park Service
One hundred stories from the National Park Service
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface by Jon Jarvis
  • Foreword by Dayton Duncan
  • Acknowledgments
  • Getting started
  • Life-changing moments
  • People to remember
  • Stories from the field
  • Volunteer adventures
  • Love of place
  • Looking back, moving forward.