National Parks are a thing of true beauty, in order to maintain these national treasures, it took a lot of Laws, Movements, and Important key figures in history to preserve these national beauties.
The national parks are treasure that people would have turned into ruins. The killings of wildlife, leaving trash everywhere, and cutting-down trees. George Grinnell saw the wonderland that's was being ruined and he fought for the preservation of the park and its wildlife. John Muir fought to preserve the beauty of Yosemite. He protected and dedicated his life to Yosemite, fighting to the very end of his life. What others people wanted to make money off, he wanted to preserve and protect. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States
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The idea of a national park became law. Many people tried oversee Yosemite but no one did more the park than John Muir. Muir, had deep, spiritual connection to the lands and animals that live there. It was his love for Yosemite that drove him to write many articles about the neglected landscape. Yosemite became a national park in 1890. John Muir contributions to Yosemite was needed because if left alone it would have ended up in ruins like Nigeria Falls. Muir helped form the Sierra Club, which promoted the protection of the park. Muir fought preservation of Yosemite. He then went on to turn Mount Rainier from a forest into a national park. John Muir was a true pioneer natural beauty. Without him Yosemite wouldn't be this big beautiful national park we have …show more content…
Over the course of his presidency Theodore Roosevelt created five national parks, fifty-one federal Bird sanctuaries, four national game refuges, eighteen national monuments and more than 100 million acres worth of national forests. Because of his love for nature and wildlife President Roosevelt was able to pass a protection bill along with George Bird Grinnell and help the increase of wildlife in Yellowstone stone park. Roosevelt went on to do many great things for conservation of the national parks. He signed a law creating Mesa Verde National Park and then went on to create and pass the Preservation of American Antiquities. This gave him the power to preserve places that would called national monuments. Theodore Roosevelt was a man of nature and he wanted to share that with us. He believed the parks were created "for the benefit and enjoyment of the
It was his dream to preserve the environment, not only for his descendants but for future
...on helped pass the Agricultural Labor Relations Act in California, the only law in the nation that protects the rights of farm laborers to unionize. But more than anything, I believe, his contribution to society has been his legacy of service to others and the commitment to social justice for communities fighting against inequalities.
As president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a central policy issue of his administration. He created five National Parks, four Big Game Refuges, fifty-one National bird Reservations, and the National Forest Service. Roosevelt advocated for the sustainable use of the nation's natural resources, the protection and
It is a sad comparison to the past John Muir, who first documented Yosemite Valley, to today’s reality. The condition of Yosemite National Park should be introduced to the American public in order to protect its historic beauty and significance, eliminate current pollution, and prevent future repercussions. In
United States. National Park Service. "Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation." National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, 06 Mar. 2014. Web. 04 Apr. 2014. .
would have been destroyed. He truly took a stand for nature, and in doing so,
Yosemite and its history, young to old the story of an area of land that is doomed to be mined, forcibly stripped naked of its natural resources. In 1864 Yosemite land grant was signed into act by president Abraham Lincoln, the first area of land set aside for preservation and protection. Yosemite being a very important historical plot of land, some time ago president Theodore Roosevelt visited the park managing to disappear from the secret service with John Muir. Through the years the contrast of ideas between the industrialists and the preservationists have clashed, Yosemite’s history both interesting and mysterious but more importantly inevitable .
Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam in which to create Lake Powell, a reservoir formed on the border of Utah and Arizona. He is one of the few that have actually seen the way Glen Canyon was before they changed it into a reservoir. Today, that lake is used by over a million people, and is one of the biggest recreation hot spots in the western United States.
Theodore Roosevelt was a very important man in American history. Believe it or not, he did many things before being elected president. He was part of many organizations and helped society. Theodore Roosevelt was a part of the Civil Service Commission, which is a federal government agency that protects civil service laws and makes sure people get fair treatment. He also was the police commissioner of New York City and the assistant secretary of the Navy. He became very attached to the Navy while working with it. Theodore Roosevelt was the leader of the Rough Riders, which were the first volunteer cavalry in the Spanish American war (“Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Rider in the White House”). This was a big deal because The Rough Riders helped America win the Spanish American war. They fought at battles such as the battle of San Juan Hill and Las Quasimas (“Rough Riders”). Theodore Roosevelt was also a cowboy, Vice president, police commissioner of New York, and governor of New York (“Teddy Roosevelt Rough”). Not only did Teddy Roosevelt impact America in a positive way before becoming president, but also a lot while president.
He believes that the wilderness has helped form us and that if we allow industrialization to push through the people of our nation will have lost part of themselves; they will have lost the part of themselves that was formed by the wilderness “idea.” Once the forests are destroyed they will have nothing to look back at or to remind them of where they came from or what was, and he argues everyone need to preserve all of what we have now.
This philosophy was supported by Roosevelt due to his past as an avid outdoorsman. In an effort to protect nature for the enjoyment of our future generations, Roosevelt created the United States Forest Service and established over 150 million acres of forest as nature reserves. Roosevelt never ceases to surprise me with his strength of body and character; he even survived an assassination attempt after getting shot in the chest. This strength is the kind of strength that we as the American people need in our leaders and none of the other candidates come anywhere close to matching him in policy substance or in character. This is why I am voting for
Some of the things he did for the park was helping preserve the forest. Most of his writings came from the forest and all of its beauty, enthusiasm, and spiritual quality that just filled him with so much joy. He herded sheep in his first summers at Yosemite.(Tolan,Sally,Page 24) He became a guide and lead tours through Yosemite and knew the area like he lived there for 10 years. John often left the tourists and went for a hike and went for a hike at Vernal Fall.(Wadsworth,Ginger, Page 56) John Muir has a Redwood forest in San Francisco. Many people love Muir's love for exploration, and knowledge of nature. He continued his studies of glaciers, and as he continued he came to the sense that the glaciers were the reason for the carved out valleys and the canyons of Yosemite. Though other scientists didn't believe him he kept pushing for more
By placing this emphasis on beauty in the wilderness the American people expected to see a beautiful wilderness, although in reality these two are not mutually exclusive. Muir supported a form of natural improvement in which alterations to the natural world are made, but not with any economic value in mind. Interestingly, Muir suggests that our wildness is a commodity to which, we are glad to see how much of even the most destructible kind is still unspoiled”. (Muir) By the time the National Park Service was founded in 1916 the American people wanted to be entertained by, and in, nature
... conservationism. He is inspiration for all of us to see the natural world as a community to which we belong.