Happy Birthday, National Parks

The Grand Canyon from Cape Royal, on the North Rim.

American bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Yosemite National Park from the Tunnel View Overlook.

Summer visitors to Yellowstone National Park's Grand Prismatic Spring.

Hikers near Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park, Alaska.

One of Sequoia National Park's gentle giants.

An enormous tree cross-section at Sequoia National Park.

A walkway above Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado.

The unearthly Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

Photographs by Ian Shive

By
June 7, 2016

 A Book With a View

The photographs in this celebration of the National Park Service centennial come courtesy of veteran outdoor photographer Ian Shive. The recipient of the Sierra Club’s 2011 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, Shive is among the most talented wilderness photographers at work today. 

The images here all appear in his latest book, The National Parks: An American Legacy (Earth Aware Editions, 2016), which includes more than 200 never-before-seen pictures of the country’s parks.