Beginning Sept. 27, 2009, filmmaker Ken Burns' new series The National Parks: America's Best Idea debuts on KNPB-TV.
In conjunction, KNPB Reports presents a series of stories about The National Parks in and around Nevada:
Reports from Nevada's Great Basin National Park:
• Park's Lehman Caves serve as setting for 1960s sci-fi movie - Aug. 20, 2009
• Biologists discover new species of shrimp at Great Basin National Park - Aug. 20, 2009
• Park biologists track rattlesnakes to study migration patterns - Aug. 20, 2009
• Studying effects of plan to pump water from Snake Valley to Las Vegas - Aug. 20, 2009
• Why some hope park's sparse visitation continues - Aug. 20, 2009
• Snake Valley water dispute continues - Aug. 20, 2009
Reports from northern California's Lassen Volcanic National Park:
• Area high school students get the chance to work with NASA - June 9, 2009