“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” These words uttered by Theodore Roosevelt echo the thoughts and wishes of endless people who have fallen for our national parks in America.
Yosemite National Park, loved by conservationists, bird-watchers, photographers, John Muir, and 4 million tourists a year, is America’s first plot of federal land protected for the sake of conservation and tourism and consists of 1,169 square miles of waterfalls, mountains, forests, campsites and more. The park was proposed by John Kaness as a plot of land preserved for the people because it was of no use to the government or any private business and in 1864, president Abraham Lincoln signed this bill into law, never having even seen the Sierra Mountains. America had been mourning the loss of the wilderness of the beautiful Niagara Falls, destroyed by industrialization and the scramble of private retailers to construct businesses …show more content…
Conservationist organizations like the National Parks Association, The Wilderness Society, and Yosemite’s own Sierra Club came together to oppose the dams using the argument that it would violate the the National Park Service Organic Act. The Sierra Club hosted outings and tours for influential figures to experience the winding sandstone cliffs full of dinosaur fossils. In one outing, eastern newspaper publisher Alfred A. Knopf was so impressed that he ordered for a book, edited by Wallace Stegner, to be created full of essays, photos, and stories, one he even wrote himself, to be published. Stegner made sure every member of congress received a copy. More groups like the Garden Club of America and the Federation of Women’s club joined the fight against the
Yosemite National Park, loved by conservationists, bird-watchers, photographers, John Muir, and 4 million tourists a year, is America’s first plot of federal land protected for the sake of conservation and tourism and consists of 1,169 square miles of waterfalls, mountains, forests, campsites and more. The park was proposed by John Kaness as a plot of land preserved for the people because it was of no use to the government or any private business and in 1864, president Abraham Lincoln signed this bill into law, never having even seen the Sierra Mountains. America had been mourning the loss of the wilderness of the beautiful Niagara Falls, destroyed by industrialization and the scramble of private retailers to construct businesses …show more content…
Conservationist organizations like the National Parks Association, The Wilderness Society, and Yosemite’s own Sierra Club came together to oppose the dams using the argument that it would violate the the National Park Service Organic Act. The Sierra Club hosted outings and tours for influential figures to experience the winding sandstone cliffs full of dinosaur fossils. In one outing, eastern newspaper publisher Alfred A. Knopf was so impressed that he ordered for a book, edited by Wallace Stegner, to be created full of essays, photos, and stories, one he even wrote himself, to be published. Stegner made sure every member of congress received a copy. More groups like the Garden Club of America and the Federation of Women’s club joined the fight against the