Obama Calls for Protection of National Parks, Envy of the World
- At Yosemite, president says parks investments pay dividends
- Father’s Day weekend visit to the jewel of Sierra Nevadas
President Obama speaks while celebrating the 100th anniversary of the U.S. National Parks system at Yosemite National Park, California, on June 18, 2016.
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President Barack Obama, standing before the backdrop of the iconic Yosemite Falls cascading from soaring mountains, extolled the virtues of the country’s national parks on Saturday and urged Americans to cherish and protect the country’s natural beauty.
“We have to have the foresight and the faith in the future to protect our parks and to protect our planet for the generations to come,” Obama said at Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, where he is spending Father’s Day weekend with his family. “Let’s make that happen.”