The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

A model fort is the only structure in the park built in the exact place as the first building.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He is most famous for designing central park in New York City and the grounds around the capitol building in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

She has spent most of her career studying wild chimpanzees in a protected area of Tanzania called Gombe National Park.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

It was produced by Joyce Kryszak with support from the Park Foundation and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

But visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas can still get a sense of their historic importance.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Central Park was a huge success and helped create a movement across the United States for creating public gardens.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

In the United States, the icy masses in Glacier National Park in Montana may soon completely disappear because of climate change.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Today, Fort Union is preserved by the National Park Service as an outdoor museum on the Santa Fe Trail.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They ride around the park in their bus, visit several places and are back in their Las Vegas hotel by night.

VOA: special.2009.08.26

"I will take the children on an outing as well. I will take them to the zoo or to the park.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Some places like Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Montana's Glacier National Park are threatened by the effects of climate change.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

He said the goal of creating the park was to protect forever a wild area that cannot be replaced.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

In eighteen fifty,there were an estimated one hundred fifty glaciers in the more than four hundred thousand hectare park.

VOA: special.2009.04.22