national parks

<p>A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold kicked off a worldwide craze when he claimed he saw a string of shiny saucers fly past Mount Rainier in 1947.</p>

<p>It has been called the Redwood Empire, and it stretched along Northern California's fog-shrouded coast, but its reign is imperiled.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In the red-rock country of southeastern Utah is a new national park, a quarter-million acres of silence, brilliant color, and vistas unmatched anywhere on Earth.</span> </span></p>

<p>Frederick Law Olmsted pioneered landscape architecture, designing Central Park and dozens of other parks and campuses across the U.S.</p>