Google doodle today: Celebrating US National Parks

Today’s Doodle celebrates the parks and monuments of the U.S. national parks on the occasion of the National Park Service centennial. Designated in 1916, the National Park Service has set aside over 84 million acres of protected land for everyone to explore and enjoy. Shelton Johnson, Park Ranger at Yosemite National Park and published author, shares his thoughts on this important milestone with us: “There are national parks older than Yellowstone, or Yosemite, but it was in Yosemite Valley where the national park idea was first lit. It was Yellowstone that fanned that spark to a flame illuminating a world that was old, but seen anew! No longer were rivers a force to be dammed, virgin forests a source for board-feet, or mountainsides blasted for gemstones or coal. A wild river was as alive as the fish within it. A forest became a network of plants bound to rock, soil, and sky. Now there are national parks in over 150 nations. The idea of parks has the power to transcend culture, a currency whose value speaks of something profoundly human. Jasper, Guilin, Serengeti, Sagarmatha, Fiordland, Torres del Paine, Kakadu, and Grand Canyon, are now just local names, out of tens of thousands, for planet Earth.” ----- Doodle Credits Story, direction, art, & animation: Sophie Diao Patches & character design: Lydia Nichols Additional animation support: Kevin Burke, Nate Swinehart, & David Davis Special thanks to National Park Rangers Neal Herbert & Shelton Johnson for their guidance and inspiration! *** Name of doodle: Celebrating US National Parks This doodle was shown: 25.08.2016 Countries, in which doodle was shown: United States Keyword for this doodle: US National Parks Link to doodle image: http://ift.tt/2c8YrQf
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