Paddle a canoe past flamingos in the Everglades. Touch the Grand Canyon’s sandstone walls. Marvel at Yellowstone’s buffalo, elk and moose amid geysers spewing steam from underground volcanoes. Walk the lush forests atop Appalachia’s crest in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since 1916, the National Park Service and its rangers have protected these lands for us, for our children and for generations to come. But the full measure of protection which our national parks enjoy today came with a price – the loss of Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley.
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Make restoring Hetch Hetchy a goal for second century of the National Park Service
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