"If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea."-Wallace Stegner
Image: Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, two early champions of the parks, in Yosemite, 1903.
Image: In 1892, Buffalo Bill Cody (second from right) and company survey the land at Grand Canyon National Park, 1892
Image: Photographer Ansel Adams at work at Denali National Park.
-Teddy Roosevelt video (from PBS America's Best Idea)
In Groups:
-What devices do you notice Roosevelt or Abbey using? (Pick at least 3 with a partner)
-Take fifteen minutes and try and make your own social or environmental argument using some of Roosevelt/or Abbey's strategies. Post your imitation to the blog using the "comment" function.
