Stalking Yosemite: John Muir Battles the Second Assault on Yosemite
If a man delights in spending days watching little furry wild animals harvest flowers, does he have any chance at persuading a United States President, who is the proud hunter of 11,000 kills?
What is this man, John Muir, asking? For the President to protect National Parks-where hunting and killing and exploitation, though not allowed, are causing massive damage.
What's at stake? 536 million acres of American land.
President Theodore Roosevelt, privileged, Harvard educated versus John Muir, emigrant, left University of Wisconsin without a degree-to seek an orchid. Not exactly blood brothers.
But Roosevelt asked John to guide him on a President's first visit to Yosemite, because no white man knew the Yosemite as thoroughly as John did.
Of course, John said, No He wanted to go meet some new trees.
This story--of the 2nd assault on Yosemite National Park in 1903, like the first in 1851--is the story of powerful greedy men circumventing the law to make $100 million dollars.
What scrawny figure stands in their way? A mannerly, passionate, survivor of childhood abuse, who should have been easily bullied, but instead overflowed with courage toward the protection of innocents.
This is that story-an entitled President and an honorable man whose deep integrity makes him fearless, and which makes him the enemy of powerful men who are not bound by law.
536 million acres
200 rivers
Nearly a quarter of US lands waiting for protection. Arising from one 3-night camping trip between a manly president hunter and a gentle passionate naturalist.
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