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...hardly imagine getting through it all, much less ruining it. President Grant, who established the first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, acted not so much to conserve as to foil a group of land speculators. The real father of conservation is considered to be John Muir, a California naturalist, who in 1890 persuaded the Federal Government to take over the Yosemite Valley and the lands around...
GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color...
Died. Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, 86, last living child of Alexander Graham Bell, wife of Gilbert Grosvenor, board chairman of the National Geographic Society, who was never satisfied with being merely a relative to the famous, and won a reputation as a naturalist and geographer (while raising six children), traveling the globe by camel and canoe, elephant and helicopter, including a 22,000-mile trek through Africa at the age of 73; in Bethesda...
Peddler in Coonskins. The failures convinced Audubon, at 35, that his real vocation was as a painter and naturalist. He started on the 435 drawings that were to become his masterwork, The Birds of America. It was 18 years in the works, and in the meantime he supported himself as a sign painter, debutante's tutor and dancing master. To help feed the two children, his wife Lucy taught school...
Died. Donald Culross Peattie, 66, poet, author and naturalist, who in more than 25 lyrical books (An Almanac for Moderns, A Cup of Sky) gave new voice to Thoreau's idea that man reaches spiritual fulfillment only through contact with nature, saying that "it touches a man that his blood is sea water and his tears are salt, and he who goes in no consciousness of these facts is without a home or any contact with reality"; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...