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L.L Bean.com. Be an outsider. I absolutely love nature documentaries, especially if I can't be in a national park.

One of the best ways to pass the time is to binge all the planet Earth and Blue Planet and

David Attenborough I can muster. So I was absolutely thrilled to find that a new

National Park Doc series was on its way to Netflix and even more thrilled that I was going to get a sneak preview.

I'm Jason Epperson and today on America's National Parks, the new Our Great National Parks

series and how these wonderful nature documentaries get made. A fish that can walk.

surfing hippos want to catch the waves.

Species found nowhere else on Earth.

Join me in this celebration of our planet's greatest national parks in wilderness. Around the world the world the more isolated the National Park the more unusual its

creatures and the more extraordinary their behaviors.

That is of course former president of the United States Barack Obama, the host and narrator of our great national parks, a five-part series premiering on April 13th covering the national park idea. Not just

American national parks. In fact, very few of them, but how the idea of a

national park has spread around the world.

Mr. Obama is not just hired help either.

The 44th President of the United States established

and expanded protections for more than 550 million acres of America's public lands and

waters more than any other president in history. He's an executive producer of

the series and the parks highlighted all share some sort of connection with his life.

Our great national parks takes us on a journey from Hawaii to Madagascar to Indonesia, Kenya,

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