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Living Legacy of El Capitan, Half Dome, Firefall in Yosemite Valley
Roosevelt, Muir, and the Grace of Place
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In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited Yosemite and was guided by naturalist John Muir. The two men spent three memorable nights camping, first under the outstretched arms of the Grizzly Giant in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, then in a snowstorm atop five feet of snow near Sentinel Dome, and finally in a meadow near the base of Bridalveil Fall. Their conversations and shared joy with the beauty and magnificence of Yosemite led Roosevelt to expand federal protection of Yosemite, and it inspired him to sign into existence five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges, and 150 national forests. |
Roosevelt at Hill's Studio, 1903
While visiting Wawona, President Teddy Roosevelt visited the studio of preeminent landscape artist Thomas Hill. In the photograph, Willeta Hill and Estella Washburn bid President Roosevelt goodbye. Of conservation, Roosevelt wrote, "It is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or to permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people are awakening."
