Philosophy and Growth
of National Park Publications
I feel I've earned the right to speak
Like all things guided
by human ideals, a publishing company and thus, a publisher
change with growth. I began my career in 1963 with Western
Gateways Magazine after having photos published in National
Geographic. For several years, I was a one man operation.
As the idea of National Park Preservation through
pictures and story grew so did I. Forty years later,
I can now look back and speak of what is important to
me.
Where is that National Park?
Where
is:
Acadia
National Park
Glacier
National Park
Place curser over park to know park name
in addition:
Map of USA with National Parks showing Highways
The Passion Preserved in Books
Meet
K. C. DenDooven and begin to listen to him speak about
his love of nature and his belief that all citizens of
the world should have available to them the true story--the
story of America's public lands -- a story told with integrity
and kept in form so that it becomes the written word that
preserves the land in our hearts. The single word that
best describes the man and his work is: PASSION!!
Statue of Liberty and other Patriot
themes from the heart
- Statue of Liberty
- Compelling Stories - Preserving the story through
Interpretation . . Freeman Tilden's Legacy
- Grand Canyon - why we honor nature's work
- Yellowstone - what it teaches about the earth's
inner heat and pressure. The animals of Yellowstone
- Charity - If you get something from a system then
you should give something back
New National Park Publications
Available .... April 2006
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National Park
Preservation and Visitation
Our National Park and other public lands are an heritage
of natural beauty that we pass on from generation to generation.
They stay beautiful because those who care are dedicated to
keeping the land the way it was. Mankind as it is, we can
assume that we have already lost scenic wonders due to lack
of protection. This land is not ours alone but the responsibility
to protect it is.
There
may be other pretty picture books but it is the
story
that counts!!
Glaciation
Volcanism
Mountain Building
Erosion
Deposition
Geyserism
Earthquake
- - as seen at Cape Cod
Ice has been the most significant
of all the land-shaping processes by which nature has molded
the earth over the past two million years. So remarkable were
the achievements of the glaciers that these events have been
grouped together into one unit of geologic time: the Pleistocene
epoch, commonly referred to as the "Ice Age." The
ice has spread across northern latitudes at least seven times
in the last 700 thousand years. But it was only twenty-six thousand
to twenty thousand years ago - - during the deepest of the Wisconsin
stage of glaciation - - that the ice reached this region and
altered it to produce the major features exhibited at Cape
Cod today. >>more
OLD TIMERS and HISTORY
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1940
- Massachusetts
Born in Waymouth, Massachusetts
in 1930, DenDooven''s parents taught him an appreciation
for life, adventure and charity. His father first came to
the United States from Europe as a 6-day bicycle racer and
won . . . . .More>>
- 1965
- How it Began
The first author of
the first STORY BEHIND THE SCENERY book reunites with K. C.
DenDooven to remember what it was like in 1965 when the idea
of a book on Grand Canyon National Park spawned a single book
that began a series . . .. . More>>
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Western
Gateways Magazines 1964-1969
Magazines that first introduced
the world to the Great Southwest now given freely to the
public. Enticing articles, pictures and stories about Grand
Canyon, Colorado River, Lake Powell, Canyonlands, Mesa Verde,
Canyon de Chelly . . .. . More>>
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Living to be 140 years old
At 100 years old I want
to walk into my own business, sit down and have an intelligent
discussion about something . . . my recipe for a long life:
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Be Happy
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Stay Healthy
- Do something Honorable
with your life
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