Dayton Duncan

Author/Filmmaker

Dayton Duncan is the author of fourteen books and for thirty years has collaborated with Ken Burns as a writer and producer of historical documentaries, including The West, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, The Dust Bowl, Country Music, The National Parks: America's Best Idea and most recently The American Buffalo.

President Bill Clinton appointed him chair of the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee and Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt appointed him to the board of the National Park Foundation. In the spring of 2009, the director of the National Park Service named Duncan as an Honorary Park Ranger, an honor bestowed on fewer than 50 people in history. He has served on the boards of the Student Conservation Association and the National Conservation Lands Foundation, and as a member of the advisory committee for the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service.