Why the national park is the best idea America ever had
America's greatest innovation might be preservation
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Ryan Cooper
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(Image credit: Images courtesy of the Library of Congress)
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Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.
