This year marks the National Park Service's centennial. But years before being formed in 1916, one of the seeds that eventually helped give birth to the concept was a 1903 three-day camping trip at Yosemite undertaken by then-president Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir. Roosevelt, as my new book described, was in the midst of a nine-week trip out west, his first ever to California. Part of his plan was to meet Muir and commune with him in nature, just the two of them, and two guides. O...
This year marks the National Park Service's centennial. But years before being formed in 1916, one of the seeds that eventually helped give birth to the concept was a 1903 three-day camping trip at Yosemite undertaken by then-president Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir. Roosevelt, as my new book described, was in the midst of a nine-week trip out west, his first ever to California. Part of his plan was to meet Muir and commune with him in nature, just the two of them, and two guides. O...
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