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“Beaver to Bigtime – The Mark J Yardley Story” is the journey of a country boy who overcame the odds inherent in a small town to build an empire that continues to grow today. As a precocious kid, he knew that his place in the world would only be as good as the ideas that came out of the mind. With guts and perseverance, Mark hurdled the limitations of his rural Beaver, Utah surroundings which often kept a person bound to a predetermined existence. Ideas are what this man is about. Through this audiobook, we see possibilities, both good and bad, bringing him through many hardships.

What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space?

Yellowstone is America's premier national park. Today Yellowstone is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors. But it was not always this way. Wonderlandscape presents a new perspective on Yellowstone, the emotions that various natural wonders and attractions evoke, and how this explains the park's relationship to America as a whole.

At stake in 1896 was the new idea that some landscapes should be collectively, permanently owned by a democratic government. Although many people today think of public lands as an American birthright, their very existence was then in doubt and dependent on a merger of the talents of these two men. Natural Rivals examines a time of environmental threat and political dysfunction not unlike our own and reveals the complex dynamic that gave birth to America’s rich public lands legacy.