Today is the 90th Anniversary of the U.S. National Parks Service

"Today marks the 90th anniversary of the National Park Service. So it is only fitting that NPCA has chosen the Park Service's birthday to launch its new campaign, "All About Jack." This campaign is all about future generations--your children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. What sort of legacy will we leave for our children?" National Parks Conservation Association (for 87 years) 1300 19th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 Visit NPCA on the web at http://www.npca.org. Watch "It's All About Jack" "To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone. Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided. If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer: but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless. The universe is wider than our views of it." Henry David Thoreau from "Conclusion" in "Walden" 1854