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George Bird Grinnell

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Lithograph of a horse and four dead bison on the plains

How Yellowstone Was Saved by a Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Party and a Fake Photo in a Gun Magazine

Teddy Roosevelt made an unlikely alliance with George Bird Grinnell, and together they made efforts to stop poaching and conserve Yellowstone.

by Alan Katz via Smithsonian on July 9, 2021

Open air bus and tourists visiting Glacier National Park.

The Secret Life of George Grinnell, One of America's Greatest Conservationists

"Although the lesson of progressivism took a while to sink in, over time Grinnell resolved to do whatever he could to forestall the sundering of his world."

by John Taliaferro via Pacific Standard on June 3, 2019

Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake.

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

by David Treuer via The Atlantic on April 12, 2021

Visualization of documented visitation networks among reservations placed onto a map made in 1890.

Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance

A digital companion to "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us," telling the story of Native American resistance to forced resettlement on reservations.

by Justin Gage via nativeamericannetworks.com on October 8, 2020

America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched

Montana's emblematic Glacier National Park reveals the impact of human history and culture.

by Adam M. Sowards via Zócalo Public Square on June 11, 2018

American Pastoral

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.

by Charles Petersen via n+1 on February 26, 2010

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