How did our national park system develop? What lay behind the parks’ creation, preservation, and management? In Origins, remarkable and diverse tales from over fifteen parks tell of extraordinary people that fought tirelessly for their protection.

David Kroese is one of fewer than a hundred people known to have visited all 430+ National Park Service units. Over the past decade, David has logged 1,700+ site visits and over 6,000 trail miles exploring NPS units across the country. David wrote of his experiences in the first published narrative through all the NPS sites, The Centennial: A Journey through America’s National Park System. David shares his enthusiasm for our park system in speaking engagements across the country and is currently working on his next book, Amidst the Icons: Hidden Gems of America’s National Park System.