America’s Natural Treasures

A new book pays tribute to the national parks

By Kim Castleberry, Photography By Ian Shive

Published October 30, 2009
Updated July 1, 2016

American historian, writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner once called the national parks “the best idea we ever had.” While that description may be debatable, there’s something to the notion that these beautiful natural landscapes are to the United States what the Roman Coliseum, Greece’s Parthenon or countless medieval cathedrals are to Europe.

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