Download NPS Centennial Essays
The Current Essay
May 2013
NPS Design Tradition in the 21st Century
Ethan Carr
Previous Essays
December 2012
What Should NPS Tell Visitors (and Congress) about Climate Change?
Philip Cafaro
August 2012
Beyond the 59th Park: Reforming the Nomenclature of the US National Park System
David Harmon
May 2012
The Park Idea as Catalyst and Conscience
George B. Hartzog III
December 2011
Revisiting the Organic Act: Can It Meet the Next Century’s Conservation Challenges?
Robert B. Keiter
May 2011
Projecting America’s Best Ideals: International Engagement and the National Park Service
Brent A. Mitchell
December 2010
This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: People and Public Lands Redux
Carolyn Finney
August 2010
Whose America? Whose Idea? Making "America's Best Idea" Reflect New American Realities
John J. Reynolds
April 2010
An Idea in Trouble: Thoughts about the Future of Traditional National Parks in the United States
William C. Tweed
December 2009
Ethnography in a National Park Service Second Century
Jerry L. Rogers
August 2009
Diary for a Second Century: A Journey across America’s National Park System in Search of its Future
Rolf Diamant
April 2009
George Melendez Wright and the National Park Idea
Dayton Duncan
December 2008
Designing Ocean Parks for the Next Century
Gary E. Davis
July 2008
Reassessing the National Park Service and the National Park System
Janet A. McDonnell
April 2008
The National Park Service and Civic Engagement
Edward T. Linenthal
December 2007
Robin Winks on the Evolution and Meaning of the Organic Act
With an Afterword by Denis P. Galvin
July 2007
On the Brink of Greatness: National Parks and the Next Century
Dwight T. Pitcaithley