during the civil war, whitman had adopted john burroughs.you can't tell, but when he was a young man, he had these extraordinary looks. it basically had love notes to each other. he became the great student of walwyn in egypt of walt whitman. their relationship was one of a platonic major. -- platonic nature. >> we're at the conservation center for training. how much time is spent in this room? >> this is a place where they keep the artifacts. we get special access, although i would be shown items here to inform my riding. behind me, there is a bag that says "biological survey poison." there is a time in the biological survey's job was to do pest control and predator control. on the other side of that mission was -- farmers would sometimes just shoot birds willy nilly. they said you have to keep the birds, they're eating the can -- eating the miskitos, controlling the insects, and controlling the pestilence. they're putting out information for farmers on why wildlife is important to keep on your farm, you do not want to get rid of birds. rem