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Spanning 27 states, America's 58 National Parks blanket 84.6 million acres of American soil.

That's a full 3.4% of the United States.

Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN.

And this week's Lectures and History Program is on landscape preservation and national parks.

Professor Laura Watt of Sonoma State University talks about the evolution of the

National Park System and the effort to preserve pristine wilderness. Professor Watts argues that this approach

often obscures the ways humans have already interacted with the land. Stay tuned. Class starts

right after this. So today we're going to be talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation

unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected areas.

The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds

of protected spaces, but then also of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces,

but then also to make the process of preservation more visible,

to make it easier to understand not only the history of parks

and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they have changed over time.

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